Druva
About
Druva is a 100% SaaS-based data protection platform — no hardware, no software to install, fully cloud-native. FedRAMP authorized with GovCloud deployment. HIPAA compliant. SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, FIPS 140-2, FISMA, and ITAR compliant. Gartner MQ Visionary. Uses zero-trust architecture with graph-powered AI for forensic compliance. Ideal for cloud-first organizations wanting backup without any infrastructure to manage.
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Ideal Customer
- Druva targets a broad range of organizations from SMB and mid-market (251–2,999 employee organizations) through large enterprise, with a defined mid-market sales motion focused on the US and Canada as well as a separate enterprise team.
- Their sweet spot is cloud-first or cloud-migrating organizations that want to eliminate backup infrastructure — particularly those with distributed workforces, multi-cloud environments, or SaaS-heavy application stacks.
Key Differentiators
- Druva's primary differentiator is being the only 100% SaaS, fully managed data protection platform — requiring no hardware, no software installs, and no customer-managed infrastructure — and is the only vendor in this category recognized as a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms.
- The company offers an industry-first $10 million Data Resiliency Guarantee covering five risk categories (cyber, human, application, operational, and environmental) with financially-backed SLAs, a guarantee no competitor has matched in scope.
Industries Served
- Druva explicitly targets public sector (federal agencies, state/local government), financial services, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and retail verticals.
- Notable customer examples include the National Cancer Institute (government), Pyramid Healthcare (behavioral health/HIPAA-regulated), SoFi (fintech/financial services), and Los Angeles Community College District (education).
Service Coverage
- Druva operates as a global company with physical offices spanning the United States (Santa Clara, CA headquarters), United Kingdom (London and Letterkenny, Ireland), India (Pune and Hyderabad), Singapore, Germany, Australia, and Japan, with support lines for Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions.
- The platform itself delivers data protection across 20+ global cloud regions via its AWS-hosted infrastructure, enabling customers worldwide to access services without deploying any local hardware.
Partnerships
- Druva's three primary strategic alliances are AWS, Microsoft, and Dell Technologies.
- The platform is built entirely on AWS infrastructure (Amazon S3, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Glacier, Snowball Edge, GovCloud), and Druva was named AWS 2023 Storage Partner of the Year.
Company Size & Ownership
- Druva was founded in 2008 in Pune, India by Jaspreet Singh (CEO), Milind Borate (CTO), and Ramani Kothandaraman — all former Veritas Software employees — and is now headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.
- The company has approximately 1,350–1,500 employees as of 2025–2026 across its global offices.
Compliance & Certifications
- Druva holds an extensive portfolio of compliance certifications and attestations maintained continuously through its Trust Center, including FedRAMP Moderate ATO (held since 2017, extended to data center workloads as the first 100% SaaS vendor to do so), SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FIPS 140-2, CSA STAR Level 1 and Level 2, GovRAMP, IRAP, DESC Cloud Service Provider, GDPR, CCPA, and NIST 800-171 Rev.
- 3. Druva has held SOC 2 attestation and FedRAMP authorization continuously for more than five years, and its platform is built on AWS GovCloud to meet ITAR and FedRAMP High infrastructure standards.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
3 offeringsDruva Cyber Resilience
Ransomware detection and recovery capabilities layered on top of Druva backup. AI-powered anomaly detection identifies unusual data patterns, air-gapped cloud storage prevents ransomware from reaching backup copies, and curated recovery identifies the most recent clean restore point.
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Fully SaaS-based backup platform — no hardware to buy, no software to install, no infrastructure to manage. Protects data center workloads (VMware, AWS, Azure), endpoints (laptops, desktops), and SaaS applications (M365, Google Workspace, Salesforce) from a single cloud console. FedRAMP authorized. Ideal for cloud-first organizations that want zero backup infrastructure.
Druva for Microsoft 365
SaaS backup specifically for Microsoft 365 including Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams with unlimited cloud storage. Automated compliance archiving with legal hold and eDiscovery support. Per-user pricing with no hidden storage costs.
Considering Druva?
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