Companies Selected as “Cool Vendors” Are Leading the Industry with New and Innovative Solutions

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/11/2012 -- Druva, a leader in unified enterprise solutions for endpoint backup, enterprise mobility and data loss prevention, today announced that it has been named a "Cool Vendor" in the Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies*, 2012, report by Gartner Inc. The report highlights five emerging private vendors that provide innovative storage capabilities and/or contain the costs associated with storage and storage management. The Druva inSync solution solves the problem of intrusive laptop backups, which are a major obstacle to productivity, while its new mobile-data protection capabilities make InSync the first solution to offer a single point of control across all endpoint devices, including smartphones and tablets.

The report noted that Druva solutions offer a number of unique features, particularly in the areas of security and scalability, such as the ability to support up to 10,000 users per server and up to 10 servers per installation, SAML integration two-factor authentication, and DLP capabilities. Gartner also reported that customers like Druva inSync's manageability and mass-deployment capabilities, as well as its ability to manage CPU utilization and bandwidth.

"Being named a 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner is an incredible honor for our company," said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. "This recognition of our endpoint data protection solution underscores the increasing need of enterprises to effectively manage the data backup and protection issues created by the use of mobile devices in the global workforce."

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
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Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these innovative vendors and their products and services. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are innovative, enable users to do things they could not do before, have or will have a business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology), are intriguing, and have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

Global Endpoint Protection and Availability
inSync simplifies management and storage of user data by enabling IT to select backup either to an on-premise server or to the cloud (Cloud Backup), or to a combination of on-premise and cloud as dictated by enterprise requirements. It provides secure, non-intrusive endpoint mobile access and backup solutions for enterprises. Unique features like global data deduplication and WAN optimization accelerate protection and save up to 90 percent in bandwidth and storage. Integrated data loss prevention and analytics insure protection and availability anywhere, anytime. Core features and capabilities include enterprise-class scalability (up to 10,000 endpoints per server) and security, multi-device access, instant access to data across devices, and simplified deployment.

Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2012, Dave Russell et al, April 30, 2012

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About Druva
As the volume of corporate data grows exponentially — doubling every 18 months — protecting that data has never been more important or difficult. Druva provides automated enterprise laptop backup solutions that protect corporate user data. Its unique application-aware deduplication technology delivers 10-times-faster backups and 90 percent reduction in storage requirements. The company's flagship product, inSync, is a highly scalable, WAN-optimized solution designed from the ground up for laptop computers. Founded in 2007 and profitable since 2008, Druva has over 1000 customers across 23 countries and maintains offices in the United States, India and Spain. Druva is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Indian Angel Network. Information on Druva is available at http://www.druva.com.

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Readers Select Druva's InSync Cloud Data Protection Solution as Best In Cloud-Computing Field

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/25/2012 -- Druva, a pioneer in secure, non-intrusive endpoint protection and availability solutions for the enterprise today announced it has won the Innovation Award in the Cloud Computing category from Information Age, the U.K.'s leading IT B2B monthly magazine. These awards, which are voted on by the publication's readers, celebrate cutting-edge software and services that have generated significant and sustainable business value.

"Being singled out by readers as the most innovative cloud computing solution is a double honor," said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. "Since the judges of this award are the users of IT solutions, their endorsement proves that our product truly meets their needs and we thank the readers for their acceptance."

Druva's inSync Cloud solution is optimal for any enterprise-wide deployments that require automatic mass deployment to global laptops, central management of policies and data across multiple regions, and high availability, with 99.5% uptime and 99.999999999% durability. Administrators can instantly provision inSync Cloud across multiple global regions and manage users' data from a single Web console. Other benefits include an elastic cloud architecture that delivers higher availability through replication of instances across zones and on-demand storage expansion that enables enterprises to expand storage capacity and user numbers globally, with no limits. In addition, Safepoint for inSync Cloud provides a data loss prevention add-on module with data encryption device geo-location and auto/remote data wipe features to protect laptop data.

For the 2012 Innovation Awards, Information Age received entries in the categories of Cloud Computing, Communications and Networking, IT Services, Data Centres, Green IT, Information Management, and Security. Readers viewed and voted on video submissions from the shortlisted companies to determine which products, projects or services they considered to be the most innovative.

To view Druva's award-winning video visit http://www.information-age.com/video-voting/cloud-computing-innovations-of-the-year/1690973/druva.thtml.

About Information Age
Information Age delivers news, analysis and insight for IT and business leaders. It has become a specialist in creating trusted environments to connect business with providers of information technology products and services – in print, online, and in person. In 2009, Information Age launched its Innovation Awards to highlight some of the more innovative uses of technology developed by suppliers. Since then, thousands of visitors to http://www.information-age.com have voted on video submissions from shortlisted companies, with the awards going to those products, projects or services that readers consider to be the most innovative.

About Druva
As the volume of corporate data grows exponentially—doubling every 18 months—protecting that data has never been more critical. Druva provides automated enterprise endpoint solutions that protect corporate user data. Its unique application-aware deduplication technology delivers 10-times-faster backups and 90 percent reduction in storage requirements. The company's flagship product, inSync, is a highly scalable, WAN-optimized solution designed from the ground up for multi-device access and backup, provides continuous data protection and data loss prevention across Web browsers and mobile devices. Druva has over 1,000 customers and protects 500,000 endpoints across 42 countries. Druva maintains offices in the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Druva is privately held and backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. Information on Druva is available at http://www.druva.com.

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