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Secure, Simplify, and Scale Cyber Resilience with Druva's New Azure Capabilities

Steven Duff, Product Marketing and Mike Taylor, Content Marketing Manager

As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, their data protection strategies must evolve to keep pace with dynamic infrastructure and rising cyber threats. With critical workloads now operating in cloud databases and object storage, organizations need a unified, scalable approach to securing data without adding operational complexity or infrastructure cost.

Today, we’re excited to announce expanded support for Azure SQL, Azure Blob Storage, global region expansion, and availability via the Azure Marketplace. Read the press release to get the full details.

Druva has a long history of protecting Microsoft workloads, and recently announced a strategic agreement with Microsoft to bring our cyber resiliency to Azure for multi-cloud environments. These latest enhancements for Azure SQL and Blob will allow organizations to consolidate backup operations, meet stringent compliance requirements, and accelerate their cloud journey with confidence.

Introducing Druva Data Protection for Azure SQL

Organizations using Azure SQL often struggle to secure, manage, and ensure database availability due to the complexity of traditional and cloud-native backup solutions. Druva simplifies this with a fully agentless, SaaS-based backup and recovery solution built on a secure, air-gapped, cloud-native architecture. It delivers automated, policy-driven backups, ensuring cost-efficient and compliant data security across multiple Azure subscriptions. 

Businesses streamline operations and ensure reliable recovery across Azure SQL databases, managed instances, and SQL Server on Azure VMs. Designed for simplicity and security, Druva delivers:

  • Agentless Deployment: Eliminate the need for complex data protection infrastructure, enabling rapid and secure onboarding for Azure SQL.
  • Policy-Driven Data Protection:
    • Full Backup: Conduct a complete scan and backup of Azure SQL databases, securely stored with deduplication.
    • Change Data Capture (CDC): Track database changes (inserts, updates, deletes) to ensure consistent recovery points.
  • Storage & Recovery: Back up Azure SQL data to the Druva Data Security Cloud for fast, reliable restores, with flexible short- and long-term retention options to meet compliance needs and reduce costs.
  • Security & Compliance: Get true air-gapped, immutable backups and encryption that adheres to regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP to safeguard against ransomware and data loss.

With Druva, customers can ensure their data is secure, compliant, and always ready for recovery, while benefiting from zero-infrastructure deployment for seamless onboarding.

Announcing Support for Azure Blob Storage

Organizations storing massive volumes of unstructured data, including videos, logs, backups, and more, now have a better way to secure and manage Azure Blob data. Druva mitigates security concerns in native Azure Blob storage via immutable backups completely isolated from the primary Azure environment. 

Druva’s support for Azure Blob Storage brings:

  • Air-gapped, ransomware-resilient backups isolated from your Azure environment
  • Granular blob-level recovery and search to accelerate recovery and reduce data loss
  • Zero-trust security architecture with RBAC and continuous posture monitoring

Backups are globally deduplicated, policy-driven, and aligned with GDPR and HIPAA compliance, giving you cost-effective and compliant data security at scale.

Available on Azure Marketplace

Getting started with Druva is now easier than ever, as Druva is officially available via the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!

This simplifies procurement for IT and procurement teams, offering organizations a range of benefits:

  • Procurement Simplicity: Customers can purchase directly through their existing Azure agreement, streamlining the buying process.
  • MACC Retirement: Purchases made via the Azure Marketplace count 100% toward Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), maximizing the value of your investment.
  • Entra ID Support: Benefit from enhanced security and continuity for Entra ID objects, ensuring seamless identity and access management.
  • Seamless Integration: Druva’s solution is designed to operate within the Azure ecosystem while fully managed through the Druva Data Security Cloud, providing a cohesive user experience.

Scaling Globally: Regional Expansion for Enterprise Resilience

Druva is also expanding its global footprint with support in additional Azure regions, including the U.S. (East, West), Europe (Germany, UK), and Asia Pacific (Australia).

This ensures:

  • Data residency compliance with regional regulations
  • Faster performance and disaster recovery capabilities
  • Stronger cloud cyber resilience across geographic boundaries

By supporting region-specific deployments, Druva helps enterprises meet local compliance mandates while delivering enterprise-grade cyber resilience worldwide. Enterprises ensure data sovereignty with the strictest global and regional regulatory standards, and receive robust support for regulations such as FedRAMP (U.S.), GDPR and DORA (EU), PDPA (Singapore), APPI (Japan), IRAP (Australia), and ISO 27001. 

Get the full details on Druva's security trust center.

Unified Protection Across the Microsoft Ecosystem

Druva’s support now spans:

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