Druva makes endpoint backup software available for private clouds

Jordan Novet — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:00:32 +0000

Druva is launching a private-cloud version of its cloud-based InSync backup service for corporate documents on desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

Like the company’s main public cloud backup version for enterprises, the private cloud offering of InSync includes automatic backup of customer documents, secure file sharing, data loss prevention, remote wipe and other features. It’s been in beta for four or five months, said Jaspreet Singh, a co-founder and the company’s CEO.

Druva software incorporates a de-duplication feature that can save precious real estate in cloud storage. To illustrate, a file — a Druva customer’s spreadsheet of potential sales leads, let’s say — might already be stored in the customer’s cloud. If that’s the case, and one employee modifies a few cells on a smartphone, the Druva software’s de-duplication function on the smartphone will detect it and only update the parts of the document in the cloud that have been changed. The company makes claim to 90 percent bandwidth and storage savings with the de-duplication element.

After signing up with Druva, one unnamed customer dropped its storage from 13 or 14 petabytes on average to 1.5 petabytes, Singh said.

Why start offering a private-cloud option? It’s a matter of appealing to businesses that want the advantages of having so much data on premise for security and financial reasons but want the flexibility of the cloud, Singh said. The company plans to add more features for the private cloud version of InSync in the coming months.

Druva, which has offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., London and Pune, India, faces competition from the Connected software from Autonomy, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2011, and Symantec’s Backup Exec 2012. Dropbox and Box also play in the space.

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The Indian web and mobile markets by the numbers

Katie Fehrenbacher — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:30:56 +0000

Sometimes it’s just easier to get a high-level picture of a market if you look directly at the numbers. Google India Managing Director Rajan Anandan gave a fascinating talk to our Geeks on a Plane India group this week, giving us a snap shot of the data that is driving the consumers, entrepreneurs, trends and investors in the rapidly growing Indian web and mobile markets.

Anandan says: “We’re probably in 1996 in the U.S. in terms of the Internet market in India.” Here’s the stats from Anandan’s deck. India has:

1.2 billion people
The 9th largest economy in the world, with $1.7 trillion GDP
600 million people below the age of 25
22 languages
250 million in the consuming class — these are the folks that buy e-commerce
900 million mobile accounts, with 600 million unique mobile subscribers (many people have more than one account)
30 million PCs — it’ll be a mobile broadband world
Average revenue per user (ARPU) is $3
100 million Internet users, and 120 million Internet users by the end of 2011
By 2015 there will be 300 million to 400 million Internet users
37 percent of Internet users access the web from home, 27 percent from an Internet cafe, 22 percent from an office, 3 percent from school
There are 50 million mobile data subscribers
5 million access Internet only on the phone
In 2010/2011 e-commerce emerged as a $7 billion market, with $6 billion of that going to online travel
By 2015 the e-commerce market is expected to be $40 billion
67 percent of e-commerce customers by electronics and cell phones. 18 percent buy apparel.
15 million 3G mobile subscribers
Broadband is 250 kbps to 500 kpbs fixed line
The use of smart phones will grow 52 percent CAGR
There are 37 million Facebook users
Google Plus use is bigger than Twitter use
23 million unique users on YouTube India
There will be $1.3 trillion in online ad spend in 2011
The English Internet will not scale beyond 200 million, says Anandan
159 million read Hindi newspapers and 31 million read English newspapers
There will be a massive tsunami toward vernacular content on the web, says Anandan
70 percent of non-travel e-commerce is “cash on delivery” (no online payments, buyers pay cash when goods are delivered)
This cash on delivery market has a 30 percent return rate
Web 1.0 and 2.0 are happening at the same time in India, says Anandan.

Some Internet sites that have found success in India:

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