Value Proposition
- 10 times faster PC backups with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization.
- Never lose a file. Ever – Timeline based, from the past Restores.
Where its useful ?
- Remote backups – low bandwidth scenarios like – remote-office/off-site backup, traveling user backups
- Local backup – Savings in time and storage space.
- Bare-Metal Restore – Solution is best suited for fast and efficient bare-metal (OS+data) restores.
 How are we doing this ?
Enterprise PC data is increasing at a rate of 40% annually. And within organizations, more than 80% of this PC data (emails/documents) is common between users. This is also validated by Gartner Report (Mar 2008) and MS Report (SIS and its effects in Microsoft).
Druvaa inSync enterprise PC backup solution uses advanced data de-duplication technology called – “SendUnique” to identify duplicate data before the backup starts. It checks with the backup server if the data (file/email) being backed up has already been backed up by any other user and then backs up only unique data. This boosts backup speed by up to 10 times and reduces bandwidth and storage usage by 90%. The fingerprinting used is powerful enough to figure out even same paragraphs between two documents.
Example: HR sends same email to 1000 employees, If one guy backs up, 999 would skip it during backup.
User Experience
This is totally transparent to the user, all he can see is a reduced backup time, which is even more critical for traveling and off-site based employees. While restoring he can see a timeline view of all his backed up data. He can choose any date:time to restore entire data from the past !
 Other Business Use cases
This is a truly unique concept and can be extended to PDA and server backup as well.
Yes, we filed two patents to protect this IP 🙂
More information
- Animated Demo
- De-duplication explained –
- Product Features
- Benchmarks
- Background of De-duplication (and attempts made by others).
Beta is available for downloads. The product is priced $35/Laptop/annum and free for SOHO/Startups.
I would be interested in knowing how you think about the idea and product.
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Its a B2B software offering, and the key feature is cutting down the duplicate content between users to gain up 10x better backup speed.
@Ari
We have a B2B model. i.e currently we enable enterprise and ISPs to offer backup to their end users.
In an internet B2C business, I don’t think its wise to charge the consumers directly. You may have to offer free backup and sell adds.
@Vivek,
We just offer the software and enterprise host it in their own environment.
We are still evaluating offering a hosted “Business Class Backup” at economical rates to SOHO users. Whether to do this directly or through a partnership is a question still have to answer.
any takers ?
Nice. I remember implementing a similar system that would backup your files onto a DHT based network.
Something similar to Pastiche.
http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~oscar/p2parea/backup/pastiche-osdi02.pdf
What I would find interesting if this gets offered as a subscription service instead of selling to enterprise for upfront cash. Are you storing data on your servers or enterprise pays for setup? What about bandwidth costs? Is it per seat license not including disk/bandwidth?
Would it be interesting to tie it up with amazon S3 like services for SOHO or individual customers. ?
Manish, this blog is an eco system, so it’s good that startups feature themselves; its a good platform.
I am an avid backer-upper. In fact, I looked in to starting this very same business about 15 years ago (as a service, using existing technology). At the time, there were a few solution providers (and the internet was a lot slower…) and at least one of them boasted this exact same feature (a Canada based company). Since then, many bits have flowed in cyberspace… and the online backup scenario is very developed with scores of companies offering the same service, it is quite a commodity. Actually, I had always believed that this could be a great service in India also.
Online backup solutions include:
– http://www.ironmountain.com
– http://www.ibackup.com
– http://www.dataprotection.com
– http://www.remote-backup.com
– http://www.backup.com
Good luck!!
PS – If you are catering to the Indian market, don’t you think your prices should be in Rs also?
This blog is slowly getting into an advertisement mode. Can anyone please look into it.