Quarterly Product Pulse: April to June 2025 Product Updates

Exciting things are happening at Druva, and we can’t wait to share them with you! From smarter ways to protect and manage your data to a big recognition we’re celebrating – yes, Druva has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms! In this product update, we’ll dive into how our fully managed, cloud-native platform is delivering autonomous data protection, robust cyber resilience, and AI-powered insights. Let’s get into it!

This quarter, we’re excited to introduce powerful new features designed to enhance your Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience and make data retention for Salesforce more flexible than ever. For more details and information on additional features not covered here, check out our product documentation. Now, let’s explore what’s new.

Introducing Data Exception Rules & Alerts for Microsoft Dynamics 365 

Imagine real-time alerts at your fingertips, helping you detect potential data risks before they escalate. With Data Exception Rules & Alerts, we’re bringing proactive monitoring to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 environment, so you can prevent accidental changes or malicious activity and ensure the integrity of your data. Gain full visibility over your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. Learn more

• Custom Rule Creation: Set thresholds for record additions, updates, or deletions across all entities or selected ones. Monitor only what matters most to your business. 
• Real-Time Alerts: Stay informed with instant alerts that highlight abnormal activity, whether it’s accidental changes or suspicious spikes. 
• Faster Investigations: Receive direct links to affected backup jobs, making it easier to trace and resolve data issues swiftly. 
• Enhanced Security: Reduce the risk of data loss or breaches by taking action as soon as unusual behavior is detected. 

Simplify Retention with Greater Flexibility for Backup Licenses 

Managing your organization's data retention just got an upgrade. With our latest enhancement, you now have the flexibility to retain Salesforce data for a minimum of 90 days, making it easier to meet critical industry regulations.  

• Retention Flexibility: You can now set a tailored retention period starting from 90 days to meet regulatory requirements specific to your industry or organization. 

• Optimized Snapshot Listings: Old entries are automatically filtered out according to your retention settings, ensuring your snapshot listings are cleaner, more efficient, and easier to manage.

Note- Once the retention period is reduced, it can't be increased. Snapshots are now optimized by removing old entries based on retention settings.

Distribution List Notifications in Druva Salesforce App

We know how critical visibility is when it comes to your organization's data protection. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a new feature in the Druva Salesforce App—now you can add email distribution lists (DLs) and/or users outside the project to receive email notifications. This ensures that alerts are shared collectively, providing broader visibility of backup status. 

Navigate to Backup Definition to add the users:

Get simplified object selection in Archival Set

The Druva Salesforce App is now enhanced to provide seamless configuration for the Data Archiver set.

Key benefits:

• Simplified user interface: for ease of child object configuration
• Default mandatory child object selection: simplifies the hierarchy for mandatory object selection
• ​Easy selection of child objects: provides enhanced control over object selection and archival hierarchy

For more information, see configure child objects.

Azure Subscription Deletion

You can now delete an Azure subscription from your management console, bringing greater flexibility and control over your Azure resources to meet your evolving business requirements.

Note: Deletion is permanent, and all associated data will be removed. Delete an Azure Subscription.

Introducing Point-in-Time Restore for Azure SQL

Restore your Azure SQL databases to a specific moment in time using our Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) capability. You can now select precise timestamps available in the restore workflow and seamlessly restore your data up to the selected point-in-time. For more information, see Point-in-Time Restore (PITR).

Recover VMware data with Cyber Recovery Insights

We're announcing significant enhancements to your VMware data protection and recovery experience! These updates introduce new features and improve existing ones, giving you greater visibility and control over your data resilience within your VMware environment.

• Reorganized Backups Tab: The Configured VMs page now includes two sub-tabs:
• Operational Recovery: Quick access to snapshots with a new Restore button for faster recoveries.
• Cyber Recovery: Focused insights for handling cyber recovery events.
• New Trends Tab: View recovery point data from the last 30 days for a clearer historical overview.
• Detailed Recovery Point Info: The Restore page now shows file activity, threats, and critical details for more informed recoveries.

The Summary tab remains unchanged. For more info, see "How to view configured VMs details."

Enhanced CloudCache R3 for improved data visibility

We’ve enhanced visibility into the synchronization status of your Hot recovery points, making it easier to monitor and manage your backups. You'll now see a total count of Unsynced recovery points for each backup set, as well as Unsynced backup sets for every CloudCache R3 device.

Additionally, we've introduced a new "Transient" recovery point state. This state represents recovery points that have exceeded their CloudCache retention period but are still in the process of syncing to the cloud. By clearly distinguishing this state, we’ve ensured that Warm recovery points remain fully synced and readily recoverable from the cloud, maintaining their reliability and integrity.

Azure storage support for CloudCache

CloudCache R3 is now supported with Azure storage for the following workloads:

• Files Server

• Nutanix AHV

• VMware

• NAS

• Oracle DTC

Azure Private Endpoints support for private, secure connectivity

Druva now supports Azure Private Endpoints to keep all traffic between your Azure account and Druva private and secure. Connections use private endpoints within your VNet, ensuring data is not exposed to the public internet. For more information on how to configure Private Endpoints, see How to set up Private Endpoints for Azure SQL.

Strengthen AWS Workloads security with Quarantine Bay

Safeguard your organization against ransomware with Quarantine Bay, a powerful feature designed to isolate infected EC2 instances and EBS recovery points. By restricting data access and restoration activities, Quarantine Bay prevents further infection. Recovery from quarantined EC2 and EBS recovery points is not permitted. Instead, restores are only allowed from recovery points verified as secure and untouched by potential threats.

To access Quarantine Bay, log in to your Druva Cloud Platform console and navigate to: Global Navigation Bar > Cyber Resiliency > Ransomware Recovery > Quarantine Bay. 

For more information, see Quarantine EC2 and EBS Recovery Points.

Enhanced security and encryption for EC2 and EBS Restores

We’ve improved the restore workflow for EC2 backups and EBS snapshots! Key updates include:

• Greater flexibility in selecting SSH encryption keys.

• Enhanced cross-account key support, making it easier to manage keys across multiple AWS accounts.

• Seamless restoration of air-gapped backups for EC2 instances and EBS volumes, even if the source volumes were unencrypted at the time of backup.

For more information, see Restoring AMIs and Restoring EBS Snapshots.

Druva Published IOC Set: Now Standard for Accelerated Ransomware Recovery license holders

Druva Published IOCs are now accessible to all customers with an Accelerated Ransomware Recovery license! Previously available only as a premium feature, this powerful tool provides proactive threat intelligence, enabling better detection and response to ransomware threats. By expanding access to advanced security features, we aim to enhance recovery readiness and empower more customers with robust protection.

For more information, see IOC Library and Threat Intelligence.

Introducing Recovery Insights for VMware

Announcing the new Recovery Insights, a powerful enhancement that integrates threat intelligence and security context directly into your VMware recovery workflow. By surfacing real-time indicators like anomalies, encryption, malware presence, and antivirus scan results, it helps make fast, confident decisions during VMware recovery.

As part of the Recovery Insights feature, the VMware Backups tab used for the restore workflow will now include a new Cyber Recovery and Trends tab for real-time, recovery-focused visibility, empowering you to better protect and restore VMware backups.  Learn More.

Strengthen AWS Workloads (EC2 and EBS Volume) security with Quarantine Bay

Utilize the Quarantine Bay feature to isolate infected AWS workloads, including EC2 instances and EBS volume snapshots (Recovery Points). This powerful enhancement limits data access and restoration activities, effectively halting the spread of infection and ensuring a more secure recovery process.

You can access Quarantine Bay by following this path in the Druva Cloud Platform Console: Global Navigation Bar > Cyber Resiliency > Ransomware Recovery > Quarantine Bay. For more information, see Quarantine for AWS Workloads - EC2, EBS Volume.

Druva Copilot for Sentinel Plugin for enhanced recovery investigations

Introducing Druva’s new Copilot integration for Microsoft Sentinel, designed to empower Security Operations Center (SOC) teams with advanced ransomware investigation capabilities.

This innovative plugin seamlessly connects Druva’s rich telemetry—covering admin activity and changes to backed-up data—directly with Microsoft Sentinel. With this integration, SOC teams can utilize natural language queries to access critical insights, streamlining investigations and enabling faster detection and response to ransomware threats. For more information, see Configuring Copilot for Druva App for MS Sentinel.

Introducing an updated integration center with webhooks

We’re thrilled to introduce our refreshed Integration Center! It now offers:  

• Out-of-the-box integrations supported by Druva  

• A dedicated home for API credentials  

• A new way to connect external services via webhooks  

By uniting all external integrations in one place, we’ve made it easier to manage connections. Plus, with webhooks, you can now specify a URL to receive real-time event updates.

We're excited to announce our refreshed integration center.

To learn more about webhooks, see Use webhooks to integrate third party services with Druva.

Protect Enterprise Workloads in Azure Cloud Storage

You can now select your preferred Cloud Storage on Azure or AWS cloud ecosystems to protect the workloads (in addition to AWS EC2 and Azure VMs): Azure SQL, VMware, Nutanix AHV, File Servers, NAS, SAP HANA and Oracle DTC. 

Key benefits:

• Cloud Flexibility: Protect and secure your cloud and on-premises workloads on Azure storage. You now have the flexibility to choose to store your data either in Azure Storage or AWS Storage.

• Operational Efficiency: Align with your existing cloud strategy, minimizing integration efforts.

For more information on configuring Azure Storage and on supported Storage Regions, see Azure Cloud Storage for Enterprise Workloads.

Hyper-V- Support for Windows Server 2025

Druva now supports the Windows Server 2025 operating system for Hyper-V. For more information, see System requirements for Hyper-V.

Support for Azure SQL Resources

Druva now supports data protection for Azure SQL resources! Customers can securely back up their Azure SQL resources with Druva's air-gapped solution. Supported resources include:

• Azure SQL Server on Azure VM

• Azure SQL Managed Instances

• Azure SQL Database

Key Benefits:

• Cost-effective data protection: With Druva’s consumption-based pricing, you can now enable your customers with a cost-effective backup and restore solution for Azure SQL resources - all with no additional infrastructure required within your Azure environment.

• Air-gapped security: Backups are performed using Druva's air-gapped data protection, a robust SaaS based solution, providing an additional layer of security against cyber threats and ransomware attacks.

• Seamless restores across regions: You can seamlessly restore your Azure SQL backups to the same or different regions within your Azure environment.

For more information, see Introduction to Data Protection for Azure SQL.

Introducing Backup Profiles for Microsoft 365 Org Apps

We're excited to announce Backup Profiles for Org Apps, a new feature that simplifies configuring org apps like Groups, SharePoint, and Teams. Create custom backup profiles and apply them automatically to resources with auto configuration rules. Learn More

Key Benefits:

• Streamlined Management – Organize similar Org Apps into groups for easier backup administration.

• Automated Backup Assignments – Use attribute-based auto-configuration rules to automatically map predefined backup profiles to Microsoft 365 resources.

• Granular Backup Control – Control which org app resources to back up based on attributes instead of backing up everything.

Nutanix AHV- Supported AOS versions

We now support AOS versions 6.10 and 7.0 for Nutanix AHV data protection. For more information, see System requirements for Nutanix AHV.

Summary 

These exciting updates are just a glimpse of how Druva is committed to empowering your organization with proactive data management and cyber resilience. Whether you’re leveraging real-time monitoring with Data Exception Rules & Alerts for Microsoft Dynamics 365 or enjoying greater retention flexibility for Salesforce, we’re here to help you stay ahead. 

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