Big data’s transformative effect is not a new phenomenon in the market, but many legacy industries are still in the process of reconfiguring processes around best leveraging its value, which typically includes some amount of complex virtual migration. For cloud support companies like Druva Inc., that means developing a platform that holistically manages data for a multicloud to extract the best intelligence from customer data.

“Enterprises are trying to understand how to manage more dispersed and diverse information in a meaningful manner without having to learn any new platforms,” said Jaspreet Singh (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer at Druva Inc. “Druva’s promise is data management as a service, which means you have data everywhere.”

Singh and Dave Packer (pictured, left), vice president of product and alliances marketing at Druva, spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed how Druva is building organically and acquiring other companies to provide a breadth of on-demand, all-in-one management solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

Providing a unified view

As the rapid rate of data growth constrains traditional business infrastructures, Druva offers companies the opportunity to take advantage of cloud agility and business continuity without the challenges of unmanageability, according to Singh.

“You can get all the goodness of cloud without having to learn a new platform. Druva attaches a service with your vSphere, so the moment you spin up a bunch of [virtual machines], they’re already protected without provisioning more hardware and software,” Singh said.

The company builds out its cloud-native ecosystem to capture data from all endpoints while maintaining streamlined management to help customers better align with their own particular use cases and predict events that could impact their environment, Packer explained.

“As an organization, [we’re] able to provide this framework for a unified view and access to all these different data sources to manage them for the foundational elements,” Packer said.

The platform’s rapid deployment enables simplicity in data purging, an advantage in customer acquisitions and divestitures, as well as in General Data Protection Regulation compliance.

“One of the beauties of the cloud is that having that master catalog across all your data allows you to remove particular data sets. We’ll remove it from the source, as well as all the backup set,” Singh said.

As the company continues optimizing its offering, it is looking at ways to reduce friction and cost with the acquisition of CloudRanger, an AWS recovery solution, and expansion of its Druva Cloud Platform.

“We have a single search across all data sources, single reporting, alerting, even consumption, so customers can consume what they like and get billed for the total usage versus having to provision software and hardware,” Singh concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld conference. (* Disclosure: Druva Inc. sponsored this segment, with additional broadcast sponsorship from VMware Inc. Druva, VMware, and other sponsors do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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