Sunnyvale, CA, December 6th, 2009

Druva Software best known for its flagship enterprise laptop backup offering Druva inSync, released beta for its much anticipated server backup platform – Druva Phoenix.

Druva Phoenix is an enterprise class product for non-disruptive disk-to-disk backup for local and remote servers. It features simple backup, point-in-time restores and patent-pending deduplication technology to offer unmatched backup performance.

One of key highlights of the product is the advanced global source based data deduplication technology. Within an enterprise where over 80% data is duplicated across different servers. Druva Phoenix uses unique global source based data deduplication technology to save only a single copy of data duplicated across servers, saving up to 90% backup time, bandwidth and storage.

The Phoenix product is especially designed for backup of remote/branch office servers. It includes features like data deduplication, WAN optimization and dynamic bandwidth prioritization which make the incremental backups almost invisible. The product also brings a paradigm shift in the way data is restored. Breaking away from traditional incremental and full backups, Phoenix showcases time based restore points which can be browsed to recover specific files in real time. This near CDP (Continuous Data Protection) approach drastically brings down recovery time and point objectives (RTO and RPO).

Some of the key highlights of the product include:

• Source based Data Deduplication – 90% better bandwidth and storage utilization
• Continuous Data Protection – Time based, from-the-past restores
• WAN Optimization – Better protection for remote and mobile workforce
• Bare Metal Restore – Backup and restore complete PC

Some useful links

Product Page – www.druva.com/phoenix/network-backup
Beta Download – www.druva.com/download/phoenix

Druva Phoenix is currently available for only Windows environments. The product is suited for both medium and large enterprises and scales well for installations ranging from gigabytes to terabytes of data, involving mixed application environments.

The Road Ahead

Although the current release of Phoenix only includes a generic Windows based agent, the upcoming releases will include more application aware agents. Maintaining its leadership in innovation for disk based backup, Phoenix also promises to facilitate easy replication of backed up data to an offsite location over simple IP based network. Data deduplication and WAN Optimization will ensure that data being replicated has low bandwidth utilizations.

Druva also recently revealed plans to launch a new storage engine called “Blackbird”. The new storage engine promises a new application aware sourced based data deduplication approach which eliminates data duplicates by understanding the composition, format and structure of data at the source. This approach offers about up to 60% better storage/bandwidth savings when compared to standard block based data deduplication approach especially while backing up Microsoft Exchange database and other complex data formats.