New public cloud backup cuts the cost of protecting data

Backups have traditionally involved removable media, whether tape or disk, to allow copies of essential information to be held off site for safety.

The cloud has changed all that but companies still have concerns about security and retention of data, as well as expense. A new product released today by Druva is aimed at delivering a long-term storage solution with less complexity and lower cost.

Druva Phoenix offers a practical alternative to the traditional server backup model requiring backup to secondary storage, tape and then long-term offsite archiving. Phoenix unifies hot, warm and cold backup and archiving processes and administration, offers unlimited retention, and can perform backups and restores up to 20 times faster than other solutions. The company also reckons it can achieve 70 percent cost savings over traditional backup solutions.

"The traditional backup-to-tape-to-archive process is expensive, resource-intensive and subject to error, with 75 percent of organizations experiencing tape failure in the last year. The cloud is clearly a better choice, but current cloud-based solutions have serious limitations ranging from slow speeds and limited data retention to failure to utilize the distributed nature of the cloud to perform large-scale backups," says Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. "By leveraging the technology we developed for our inSync endpoint backup platform as well as our five years of experience with the AWS public cloud, Phoenix offers a truly disruptive alternative that eliminates tape and makes the cloud a viable choice for server backup for the first time".

Key features of the product include unified backup and archiving with ever-incremental backups that remove the need for companies to perform periodic full backups. All processes are centrally managed from a single console to reduce IT overhead.

Storage is optimized so that organizations can store limitless recovery points and archive and retain their data for as long as required -- decades if necessary -- to meet regulatory and compliance rules.

Phoenix delivers direct-to-cloud backup and restore speeds of 100Mbps -- 20 times faster than other solutions -- utilizing the latest in object storage coupled with parallel data transfers. Sites with large data sets, limited bandwidth or demanding recovery time objectives can utilize Phoenix CloudCache, an on-site soft appliance that provides hot LAN-speed backups and restores via local caching. Transfers to the cloud are then staggered to free up real-time bandwidth.

Phoenix uses Amazon Web Services to ensure customer data is maintained in a secure public cloud infrastructure and protected by a full range of system certifications.

For more information and to sign up for a free trial you can visit the Druva website.

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