Druva Phoenix Wins Gold for Disaster Recovery as a Service in the 12th Annual 2017 IT World Awards(R)

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - May 30, 2017) - Druva, the leader in cloud data protection and information management, today announced that Druva Phoenix has been named a gold winner in the disaster recovery (DR) as a service category of the 12th Annual 2017 IT World Awards®. These premier information technology awards by Network Products Guide honor achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners will be honored on Monday, June 26, 2017 during the SVUS Red Carpet Awards Ceremony Dinner in San Francisco.

With direct-to-cloud backup and recovery for VMware environments, Druva Phoenix enables fast setup for failover and DR within minutes from Virtual Machine (VM) snapshots. During testing or system failure, administrators can initiate failover and spin up VMs in the AWS cloud within moments -- achieving a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 10 minutes without the need to procure and deploy additional infrastructure.

"The demand from global enterprises for data protection is ever-growing. Druva is paving the way by innovating solutions to intelligently collect data and unify backup, disaster recovery, archival and governance capabilities," said Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of Druva. "Druva's mission to simplify data protection in the cloud has put Druva Phoenix squarely in the leader position and being awarded with the top honor from the IT World Awards further validates our position and vision. It is an honor to have Druva Phoenix recognized for its success."

Druva Phoenix unifies data availability and governance for enterprise infrastructure with a unique cloud-first approach to simplify data protection, improve visibility and dramatically reduce the risk, cost and effort of managing today's complex information environment. With Druva Phoenix, organizations gain the additional benefit of centralized management of server backup, recovery and archival across any number of servers and locations with analytics to aid in a deeper understanding of their data and its usage characteristics.

An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual IT World Awards encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction and public relations in every area of information technology.

To learn more about Druva Phoenix, visit www.druva.com/products/phoenix/.

About NPG's IT World Awards

As industry's leading technology research and advisory publication, Network Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. The Annual IT World Awards is part of the SVUS Awards® recognition program from Silicon Valley in the United States of America which also includes other programs such as CEO World Awards, Consumer World Awards, Customer Sales and Service World Awards, Golden Bridge Awards, Globee Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards, Info Security PG's Global Excellence Awards, Pillar World Awards, PR World Awards, and Women World Awards. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com

About Druva

Druva is the leader in cloud data protection and information management, leveraging the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to protect, preserve and discover information -- dramatically increasing the availability and visibility of business critical information, while reducing the risk, cost and complexity of managing and protecting it.

Druva's award-winning solutions intelligently collect data, and unify backup, disaster recovery, archival and governance capabilities onto a single, optimized data set. As the industry's fastest growing data protection provider, Druva is trusted by over 4,000 global organizations and protects over 25 PB of data. Learn more at www.druva.com and join the conversation at www.twitter.com/druvainc.