Key to any business continuity solution is continuous availability of critical data. And with up-coming SOX and Basel compliance regulations it would be even more necessary for SMEs and enterprises to have a data availability and disaster recovery plan in action.
While there are a bunch of software/hardware for the same (from EMC, Netapp and Veritas), but their TCO (which goes over a million dollar) and complex integration efforts drive interested companies away. On top of it, most of these software based solutions cater to limited operating systems and applications.
Druvaa would like to bring in a paradigm shift in how business reduce their risk. Druvaa Replicator a product in its beta stage, near-synchronously and non-disruptively replicates product data over heterogeneous network, storage and operating systems and applications. It works with IP network and commodity-hardware to provide a application and OS agnostic solution which costs over 1/10 of other existing solutions.
Data Backup consolidation (from heterogeneous operating environments) and disaster recovery (over IP) are the keys features being targeted in the first release of the product. And we surely have an interesting road ahead …
And we seek VC funding and value added resellers to market this product in Asia-pacific market. Please contact me at jaspreet.singh@druvaa.com or give a call at +91 9890712226
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The main problem which any customer faces in “adapting” a solution is how to integrate it with its geo-graphically diverse and heterogeneous operating environments. Also, to add to it now compliance would make it mandatory to test resaster safety every 3 months …
For adaptability concerns the product comes with an “Advisor” agent, which based upon your geographical diversity, data usage, bandwidth and _disaster_likeliness_ propose a product setup. Off course, it doesn’t totally complement system-integration efforts but can help in planning.
Also, Druvaa replicator has a very small host-based agents (for Linux/ Windows/ Solaris) which replicates all I/O to local caching server for off-host processing. This host footprint offers minimal perf. degradation and works independent of applications. This should take care of any integration hassles .
Everyone is talking about protecting critical data & being compliant with the industry & legal norms.. every replication solution claims to meet the challenges that the customer faces.. How does a customer identify & adapt an apt soln for his setup ?? is there any guideline or process that you can suggest which goes beyond just trying to make a sale of your product.
Interesting, finally some solid tech companies incubating out of india also. Where are you based in India ?
BTW, at what level do you replicate user-space, file-system, disk, device driver ??
application agnostic sounds unreal … And how different is your solution from Veritas VVR and Netapp TDPS ?
i think i can sell, if you deliver what you are saying … send me you business plan (2 pager) and product overview (2 pager).
– S