Druva, Sunnyvale-based provider of endpoint data management solutions for enterprise laptops, PCs, smartphones, and tablets, has come out with a new service that eliminates hours that IT spends on backup and restore for all corporate devices, such as laptops, tablets, smartphones. If changing from an old PC or Mac, this new offering automatically backs up and syncs settings: email, passwords, printers, etc. It essentially clones your new device to what the user had before. This upgrade is a part of the new 5.2 release of Druva inSync.

This is industry-first backup/restore capability for its inSync endpoint data protection platform that allows end users to restore system and application settings to any device with a click– even in Windows-to-Mac or Mac-to-Windows migration scenarios. Besides saving time in system upgrade, the inSync enhancement eliminates painful and time-consuming bare metal restore (BMR) processes due to frequent OS iterations, and loss of mobile devices.

“One laptop is stolen every 53 seconds, 70 million smartphones are lost annually, most enterprises are on a three-year PC refresh cycle, and it’s extremely rare to replace one hardware device with an identical device because technology is iterating at such a rapid pace. Bare metal restore is archaic in this environment because restoring the data and settings from even one device to a different piece of hardware takes hours of extra time, and the number of devices that have to be repaired, replaced or upgraded continues to multiply,” said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. “Our solution divorces data and settings restoration from the hardware so that neither bare metal nor disk image restore is needed, takes IT out of the picture, and gets end users up and running quickly and cleanly.”

Some of the features of Druva inSync are:

• Automatic backup of system and application settings;
• Ability to easily restore backed-up settings;
• Recording of all administrator activity within the inSync platform;
• New controls on file sharing to increase data protection and governance;
• 75% faster mass deployment via enhanced Active Directory integration;
• High availability for inSync’s Private Cloud infrastructure, allowing companies to backup to an additional storage destination and have data backup and in case of a disaster.

For more information on Druva and inSync, check out the 30-day trial.