Druva's No Hardware Required

Druva's No Hardware Required

By W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)Technology
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Druva's No Hardware Required episodes

  • Take the win! (Introducing Druva's enhanced EC2 backup)

    W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Stephen Manley (Druva's CTO) discuss how Druva has enhanced how its customers can backup AWS EC2 instances. Customers can now create a single policy that specifies how many snapshots they want to keep, and how many of them they want deduplicated and migrated into the Druva cloud. The latter offers quicker recovery; the latter offers both enhanced security while also reducing costs. This is one of those rare instances in IT where you get something that is less expensive, while also being more secure and easier to use. Take the win and check out Druva's EC2 backup.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Free eBook copy of Modern Data Protection

    You can get a free eBook copy of Modern Data Protection by going to druva.com/podcast.

    18 min
  • Challenges of an on-premises backup system

    Two experts who have built hundreds of on-premises backup systems talk about how difficult it is to build them correctly – especially the first time out. W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Stephen Manley (CTO) have helped hundreds of customers navigate these challenges, and so can speak to them first hand. The two biggest challenges they talk about in this episode are capacity planning and cyber security. They say it is impossible to correctly provision an on-premises backup system, and they explain why. Secondly, they discuss how important cyber security is in the current world where the bad actors are coming directly for your backups. They do all this while being entertaining as well. Enjoy!

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Free eBook copy of Modern Data Protection

    You can get a free eBook copy of Modern Data Protection by going to druva.com/podcast.

    19 min
  • Druva Celebrates World Backup Day
    Did you know the day before April Fools is World Backup Day? If not, now you do! Druva's W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Stephen Manley relate backup stories from their lengthy careers, in commemoration of this important day. Then they both wax philosophical on what they think backup and resiliency will look like five years from now.
    20 min
  • Cyber security in light of the Ukrainian invasion
    Stephen and Curtis discuss how customers should react to the invasion of the Ukraine from a cyber security perspective. They review a series of articles from Krebs on Security that talk specifically about the Conti ransomware group and how they are responding to this crisis. This a Russian-based group that is known for targeting the backups of its victims. This episode gives solid advice on how you can be better prepared for this new threat.
    18 min
  • Three Challenges of Enterprise Data Protection
    In part 2 of our enterprise series, Curtis and Stephen talk about three challenges that enterprise customers have when trying to protect their data: one very large server, many large servers, and data distributed across many locations. For each of these challenges, we talk about how one would do that with an on-premises system, and then explain how we solve that problem at Druva. The Druva Data Resiliency Cloud is designed to handle all three of these challenges, and this episode will help you to understand exactly why.
    24 min
  • What is "Enterprise-Class" Data Protection?
    This episode of Druva's No Hardware Required explores the idea of an enterprise-class data resilience product, starting with how data protection is a little different than other parts of IT. To be enterprise-class in data protection, you really need a system that incorporates the entire environment. Stephen and Curtis also discuss how some see SaaS products as NOT being ready for the enterprise, and they explain why this simply isn't the case. In fact, they make the claim that Druva is more ready for the typical enterprise client than many of our competitors. We talk about our infinitely scalable dedupe engine, and how restores get the unlimited power that the cloud offers. (Druva competitor's products have limits on the size of their dedupe catalog, and they can only restore as fast as the server they're running on – which is typically not a very powerful one.) The way Druva is designed gives you the infinite power of the cloud, with a bill smaller than you would pay for a much less powerful system on premises.
    25 min
  • New and upcoming Druva security features
    Jatin Thaker joins us again on the podcast to talk about new and upcoming security features of the Druva Data Resiliency Cloud. First we talk about how Druva increased its support multi-factor authentication (MFA). Jatin then explains things that MFA does not protect you from, such as a rogue admin, followed by an explanation of new and upcoming features to address those risks. We talk about forcing admins to specify why a deletion is happening, and then delaying the actual deletion of any backups for a user-specified period of time. This will allow a customer to restore any backups that were either inadvertently or maliciously deleted. We then have an interesting conversation on advanced authorization, also called "four eyes" support, where two people are required to approve certain actions. We then have a discussion about other upcoming immutability features, along with talking about our support for audit logging. This is a great episode for anyone concerned about the security of their backups.
    21 min
  • Honoring Data Privacy Day 2022
    W. Curtis Preston and Stephen Manley discuss Data Privacy Day, and what that means for everyone, and especially for Druva's customers. They start with a discussion of how much more important privacy is to today's consumers, and opinions as to why that might be the case. They then give an overview of large privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, as well as some discussion on the upcoming implementation of CPRA, the update to CCPA. Finally, they discuss how all of this impacts an organization's data resiliency efforts, or how data protection can help positively impact an organization's attempts to be compliant to these various regulations. Finally, Stephen discusses a very valid point about how you should attempt to comply with these regulations even if you're not subject them.
    22 min
  • Benefits of AWS as your infrastructure provider
    Welcome to our re:Invent episode! This week, Stephen and Curtis discuss what Druva and its customers get from the fact that Druva runs their infrastructure on AWS, and programs specifically to its APIs. We first talk about the things you don't have to worry about at all, like physical problems with your servers (fire, flood, etc.). Then we talk about the benefits that Druva customers get because Druva partners closely with AWS, and is able to take advantage of hundreds of features as they're released. Finally, we talk about the wonderful benefits a Druva customer gets because they're using a SaaS provider, rather than having to maintain their own backup infrastructure. We hope you stop by our booth this week at AWS!
    18 min
  • What is data resiliency and why does it matter?
    Druva is now using the term Data Resiliency to describe what we do, and some have asks us how that is different than data protection. This podcast should help, as two folks who have been in the industry a few decades (W. Curtis Preston and Stephen Manley) discuss the differences in the industry that have happened over the last several years. They then talk about how many of these changes have driven companies like Druva to be more than just backup or data protection; they must provide data resiliency.
    18 min

About Druva's No Hardware Required

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Hosted by Mr. Backup (W. Curtis Preston) and Stephen Manley (Druva's CTO), No Hardware Required is the official Podcast of Druva, and is dedicated to the idea of a SaaS-based data protection system,…