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Druva

SaaS backup with cloud failover of VMware and AWS workloads

Overview

Druva sells backup as a SaaS service built on what it describes as a cloud-native architecture that works across multiple clouds; its Essentials Pack is marketed as “one platform, one contract, zero infrastructure”[11]. Its board includes representatives of Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Riverwood Capital, Tenaya Capital and CDPQ[25].

Druva’s pricing page groups coverage into three purchasing routes. Individual workloads are priced by category: data centre (VMs, files, NAS, databases), public cloud (compute, storage, databases), productivity data (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, endpoints), identities (Entra ID, Active Directory, Okta), CRM (Salesforce, Dynamics 365) and AI data including Microsoft 365 Copilot[11]. A SaaS Universal License covers the main SaaS applications and identity systems on a per-user basis with pooled storage[11]. An Essentials Pack for smaller organisations covers SaaS apps, VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox, file servers, SQL, Oracle, Azure Local and native AWS and Azure services under one contract[11]. The trade-off of the SaaS model is that data sits in Druva-operated storage, recovery speed for large on-premises VMs depends on network bandwidth, and no list prices are published.

Druva features

  • No customer-managed backup servers or storage
  • Endpoint and Microsoft 365 backup
  • VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix and Proxmox protection
  • AWS and Azure native workload backup
  • Entra ID, Active Directory and Okta protection
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot data coverage
  • Fully managed SaaS, no customer hardware
  • VMware failover and failback across AWS regions

Druva pricing

Three routes: individual workload tiers, a per-user SaaS Universal License with pooled storage, and an Essentials Pack for SMBs. Prices are not published on the pricing page; a free trial is offered.

Druva strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Nothing to patch or host on site
  • Covers endpoints, SaaS and data centre in one service
  • Identity-system protection included in some plans
  • Per-user licensing for SaaS simplifies budgeting
  • No infrastructure to run or patch
  • Unlimited testing included

Limitations

  • No published prices
  • Large restores depend on internet bandwidth
  • Data is held in the vendor's storage
  • Fewer options for tape or on-premises copies
  • Backup-based RPO of about an hour
  • Recovery environment is AWS only

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