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Druva Hybrid Workloads
The data centre protected with zero backup infrastructure — source-deduped to an air-gapped cloud, with DR that spins up in AWS instead of a second site.
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Druva Hybrid Workloads protects the data centre with zero backup infrastructure: VMware, Hyper-V, Windows/Linux servers, NAS, SQL Server and Oracle backed up straight to the Data Security Cloud — no media servers, no proxies to size, no storage to buy, no software to patch. Global source-side deduplication makes the bandwidth and cost math work; copies land air-gapped in Druva's AWS (immutable, encrypted, outside your blast radius); DR spins recovered VMs into the cloud. It's the boldest version of the SaaS bet: the backup estate itself, deleted.
The Druva platform family
This page covers Hybrid Workloads. The rest of the five-family platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Hybrid Workloads — the data centre, SaaS-delivered
- Vendor
- Druva (Pune-born 2008 · 100% SaaS · $2B+ unicorn)
- Workloads
- VMware · Hyper-V · Windows/Linux · NAS · SQL Server · Oracle
- Infrastructure
- None — no media servers, proxies, appliances or storage
- Economics
- Global source-side dedupe — bandwidth and credits both shrink
- Air gap
- Copies in Druva's AWS — outside your estate's blast radius
- DR
- Cloud DR — failover recovered VMs into AWS on demand
- Ops
- Agents + a proxy VM per site; everything else is Druva's problem
- Licensing
- Credits — consumption per deduplicated TB
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand SaaS backup before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is SaaS data-centre backup?
The data centre protected without a backup estate: agents and a proxy VM send source-deduplicated data to a cloud platform that handles storage, immutability, tiering and upgrades.
Druva is the model’s reference: the only 100% SaaS Leader in the Gartner MQ*.
The backup estate vs the deleted estate — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Self-managed backup estate | Zero-infrastructure SaaS (Druva) |
|---|---|---|
| The estate | Media servers, proxies, appliances, tape | A proxy VM per site. That's it. |
| Upgrades | Change windows and prayer | Continuous — it's SaaS |
| Storage planning | Capacity forecasts and refresh cycles | Someone else's job |
| Ransomware reach | Backups in the same blast radius | Air-gapped in Druva's AWS |
| DR | A second site or nothing | Failover into AWS on demand |
| WAN impact | Full streams crushing links | Source-deduped trickle |
| TCO | Licence + infra + ops + refresh | Credits. One line. |
| The admin | A dedicated role | A task in someone's week |
Migration is agents-and-proxies in waves — and the old estate’s decommission is the savings becoming real.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Site Proxies
A lightweight proxy VM per site moves deduplicated data cloudward — the entire on-prem estate of the solution.
Source Dedupe
Blocks dedupe at the source against a global index — WAN traffic and cloud consumption both shrink dramatically.
Data Security Cloud
Immutable, encrypted, air-gapped storage with tiering Druva manages — capacity planning becomes someone else's job.
Recovery Fabric
Granular files to full VMs, restored on-prem or spun up as cloud DR instances in AWS.
Watch Layer
Entropy monitoring and the MDDR service watching the estate — detection riding the same platform.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Protect, recover, unburden.
Druva deletes the backup estate — and relocates the copies where the attack can’t follow.
Virtual Estate Protection
VMware and Hyper-V protected agentlessly via site proxies — the biggest surface, covered without backup servers.
Windows & Linux Servers
Physical and virtual servers with file and application awareness — the general estate on one policy plane.
Database Protection
SQL Server and Oracle with app-consistent, log-aware backup — DBA-grade recovery points without DBA-run infrastructure.
NAS at Scale
File shares protected with smart scanning and archive tiering — the unstructured estate without the full-scan agony.
Global Source Dedupe
Blocks deduplicate at the source against a global index — WAN traffic and credits consumption shrink before transmission.
Architectural Air Gap
Copies in Druva's AWS, unreachable from your estate — immutability and isolation as properties, not projects.
File-to-VM Restore
Single files to full VMs from the same copies — restore scoped to the incident.
DR Failover into AWS
Recovered VMs spin up in AWS on demand — disaster recovery without a second site on the balance sheet.
Database Point-in-Time
Log-aware recovery to the minute before the incident — the DBA's requirement, met.
Nothing to Run
No media servers, storage pools or appliance refreshes — the platform upgrades continuously without your change windows.
Entropy Monitoring
Backup streams watched for encryption patterns — with MDDR's staffed SOC available on top.
Estate-Wide Evidence
Protection posture and audit exports across every site — the compliance answer generated continuously.
Watch the zero-infrastructure case
The re:Invent argument, the cloud-DR demo and the NAS story.
Rethink Data Protection for Hybrid Deployments
The zero-infrastructure argument, made at the source.
Cloud-Based DR for VMware in Minutes
Recovered VMs failing over into AWS — DR without a DR site.
Integrated NAS Backup and Archive Demo
The unstructured estate protected and tiered.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Druva apart from the alternatives.
The backup estate, deleted
No media servers to patch, proxies to size, appliances to refresh or storage to forecast — the entire operational category of 'running backup' is removed, not improved.
Air-gapped because it's elsewhere
Copies live in Druva's AWS, structurally unreachable from your (possibly compromised) estate — the delete-the-backups playbook has nothing to find.
Dedupe pays the cloud bill
Global source-side deduplication is why SaaS backup economics work at data-centre scale — WAN and storage consumption shrink before the meter runs.
DR without a DR site
Recovered VMs spin up in AWS on demand — the disaster-recovery capability without the standing second data centre.
Upgrades happen to you, pleasantly
The platform improves continuously with zero change windows on your side — the feature velocity of SaaS applied to the least glamorous estate in IT.
TCO includes the ops you stop doing
Licence-vs-licence comparisons flatter self-managed rivals; add infrastructure, refresh cycles and admin hours and the SaaS math routinely wins — audit it honestly.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Druva journey looks like
Estate census & residency talk
Workloads, TBs, dedupe estimates and the Druva-cloud residency conversation had honestly — TechBag runs it free.
Protected
Agents and site proxies deploy; first backups run through source dedupe. Yes, week one.
Restore & DR drills
Timed VM restore, file-level recovery, a cloud-DR failover test — outcomes measured, not jobs counted.
Estate-free steady state
The old backup estate decommissions, credits get quarterly dedupe reviews, MDDR watches overnight. TechBag manages consumption.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We decommissioned two backup servers, an appliance and a tape workflow. The rack space is now empty and so is that section of my anxiety.”
“Ransomware took the domain. The backups lived in Druva's cloud where the attackers' credentials meant nothing. We restored; they got nothing.”
“Deployment was agents and a proxy VM — protected in a week. Our previous platform migration had taken a quarter.”
“Dedupe ratios made the credits math work — our WAN links barely noticed the data centre backing up.”
“Cloud DR failover test: our ERP VM answering from AWS in under an hour, no DR site anywhere on the balance sheet.”
“Know the trade: copies live in Druva's AWS regions. Fine for us with the India region option — but have the residency talk FIRST.”
“The exotic long tail (ancient AIX, weird ERPs) isn't the lane — that's platform-vendor territory. Our mainstream estate fits perfectly.”
“Backup admin went from a role to a task. The person who did it now does cloud engineering.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the SaaS backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Hybrid-Backup Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
The zero-infrastructure corner — alone among MQ Leaders. This page's subject.
Depth × Operational Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — workload depth vs what you must run to get it.
Mainstream depth at unmatched lightness — the honest trade, well made.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Druva vs the backup heavyweights
The operating-model split is the real decision — all the platform hubs are live or landing for side-by-side reads.
| Dimension | Druva | Veeam | Commvault | Rubrik | Cohesity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating model | 100% SaaS | Self-managed (+SaaS arms) | SaaS or software | SaaS-managed appliances | Appliance/cloud mix |
| Infrastructure to run | A proxy VM | The Veeam estate | Platform components | Appliances | Appliances |
| Workload breadth | The mainstream six | Broad + 6 hypervisors | The benchmark | Broad | Very broad |
| Air gap by default | Architectural | Buildable | Buildable | Platform-native | Buildable |
| DR without a site | Cloud DR built in | Orchestrated | Autonomous Recovery | Cloud options | SiteContinuity |
| TCO shape | Credits, one line | Licence + estate | Package + estate/SaaS | Premium + appliances | Licence + appliances |
| Sovereignty (your premises) | Not the model | Fully available | Available | Appliance-local | Appliance-local |
| Best fit | Infrastructure-tired mainstream estates | VM-centric control-keepers | Complex regulated estates | Security-led platform buyers | NetBackup-lineage estates |
Which operating model is right for you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Druva if…
- ✓Running backup infrastructure is a burden you want deleted
- ✓Architectural air gap answers your ransomware tabletop
- ✓Your workloads are the mainstream six (they usually are)
- ✓The residency conversation clears (India regions available)
Choose Veeam if…
- ✓You want control of the estate and love the tooling — hub live
Choose Commvault if…
- ✓The workload tail is long and exotic — hub live
Choose Rubrik if…
- ✓Security-first appliances anchor the buy — hub this wave
Choose Cohesity if…
- ✓NetBackup heritage shapes the path
What does running backup cost you?
Drag the sliders (count protected workloads). Estimates assume ~6 hours per workload per year across estate patching, storage forecasting, refresh projects and job-babysitting, with ~75% deleted by the SaaS model — the infrastructure line items go too, but the slider only counts labour. Illustrative and conservative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Druva prices in credits — consumption on deduplicated data, one line. TechBag measures dedupe in the PoC and reviews consumption quarterly.
Business
Best for core protection
- Credits per deduplicated TB
- The mainstream six workloads
- Air gap included, always
Enterprise
Best for most estates
- Longer retention, cloud DR
- Storage insights & tiering
- The most-chosen tier
Elite
Best for resilience mandates
- Accelerated Ransomware Recovery
- Advanced security features
- Pairs with MDDR service
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your device counts and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every backup vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Druva's AWS regions hold your copies — confirm the India-region option and terms in writing before anything else.
Run the PoC on YOUR data — dedupe ratios drive credits economics; measure, don't assume.
Full VM, file-level, and SQL point-in-time with a stopwatch — the SaaS pitch must survive restore day.
Spin a recovered VM into AWS during the PoC — the no-DR-site claim, tested.
Watch link utilisation during first-full and steady-state — source dedupe should make it boring.
Compare credits against licence + infra + ops + refresh — not licence vs licence.
List workloads OUTSIDE the mainstream six — they may need a platform vendor beside (or instead of) Druva.
Plan the decommission of the old backup estate — the savings are real only when it's actually gone.
Questions buyers ask
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Get a credits quote off a real census, or bring your backup-estate inventory and let a TechBag advisor price its funeral.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.