Druvaa Presentation @ Proto.in

Better late than never, Proto.in organizers released the event videos. Here is our pitch …

cheers ..
-J

1 comment April 9th, 2008

Druvaa inSync 2.0 Features Suggest

For the first timers - Druvaa inSync is a Fast Enterprise Laptop Sync solution mainly targeted at LAN/WAN based backups for mobile workforce and cross office backup consolidation.

inSync Details - http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync.html
inSync Features - http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync_features.html

Druvaa inSync 2.0 is being targeted as a complete laptop data sync protection solution.

Feature Set

a) Server Side

1. Performance improvements - Improved sync algorithm (based on xdelta-3).
2. Continuous Data Protection - Date/time based “from the past” restore.
3. Network Profiles - admin configures network profiles with -
   1. IP addresses
   2. Network Type LAN/WAN/Auto (to optimize on backup packet sizes)
   3. On-wire compression levels
4. Pluggable Storage Architecture - to make way for storage engines like encrypted, compressed, single instance, Amazon S3
5. Single Instance Store - powerful block level de-duplication/single instancing.
6. Storage Profiles - admin configures storage profiles with storage engine and capacity
7. User Profiles - binds network and storage profiles with user profiles/groups. A totally flexible way of choosing which user syncs using which network and what storage type.
8. Remote Data Deletion/Encryption - Theft protection
9. Live Reports - Statistic, Graphs and email Alerts.

b) Client Side

1. Bandwidth QoS - Choose backup bandwidth cap by percentage not value.
2. Search backed-up files - allow users to search files in backup by names
   
3. Auto restore/heal - automatically “heal” the laptop by restoring all files to default location
4. Live Console - View live logs and backup activity

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Feedback Suggestion

Druvaa inSync team would like to hear your feedback/suggestions -

1. Whats your take on planed features ?
2. Anything we missed or you would like to suggest ?

6 comments March 24th, 2008

Understanding RPO and RTO

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovey Time Objective (RTO) are one of the most important parameters of a disaster recovery or data protection plan. These objectives guide the enterprises to choose a optimal data backup (rather restore) plan.

RPO - Recovery Point Objective (wikipedia)

“Recovery Point Objective (RPO) describes the amount of data lost measured in time. Example: If the last available good copy of data upon an outage was from 18 hours ago, then the RPO would be 18 hours.”

In other words if the answer to question - “Up to what point in time could the data be recovered ?“.

RTO - Recovery Time Objectives (wikipedia)

“The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in continuity.

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It should be noted that the RTO attaches to the business process and not the resources required to support the process.”

In another words its the answer to question - “How much time did you take to recovery after notification of business process disruption ?“

The RTO/RPO and the results of the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) in its entirety provide the basis for identifying and analyzing viable strategies for inclusion in the business continuity plan. Viable strategy options would include any which would enable resumption of a business process in a time frame at or near the RTO/RPO. This would include alternate or manual workaround procedures and would not necessarily require computer systems to meet the objectives.

There is always a gap between the actuals (RTA/RPA) and objectives introduced by various manual and automated steps to bring the business application up. These actuals can only be exposed by disaster and business disruption rehearsals.

Some Examples -

Traditional Backups
In traditional tape backups, if your backup plan takes 2 hours for a scheduled backup at 0600 hours and 1800 hours, then a primary site failure at 1400 hrs would leave you with an option to restore from 0600 hrs backup which means RPA of 8 hours and 2 hours RTA.

Continuous Replication
Replication provides higher RPO guarantees as the target system contains the mirrored image of the source. The RPA values depend upon how fast the changes are applied and if the replication is synchronous or asynchronous. RPO is dependent on the fact that how soon can the data on target/replicated site be made available to the application.

Druvaa Replicator
Druvaa Replicator is Continuous Data Protection and Replication (CDP-R) product which near-synchronously and non-disruptively replicates changes on prodhuction sever to target site and provides point-in-time snapshots for instant data access.

The partial synchronous replication ensures that the data is written to a local or remote cache (caching server) before it application can write locally. This ensures up to 5 sec RPO guarantees . CDP technology (still beta) enables up to 1024 snapshots (beta) at that target storage which helps the admin to access current or any past point-in-time consistent image of data instantly, ensuring under 2 sec RTO.

More Information - http://www.druvaa.com/products/replicator/

4 comments March 22nd, 2008

Rediff.com covers Druvaa Story

March 6, 2008

A nice article covered by Prasanna from Rediff.com. This interview was taken in early January 2008 when IAN announced its funding, just before the Proto.in 2008 event.

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/mar/03druvaa.htm

It covers our entrepreneurial journey in good spirit

Things i didn’t like -

1. I missed the interview

2.They cut my T-shirt print. (It said, “Keep staring, i might do a trick” )

Cheers team Druvaa !!

Add comment March 6th, 2008

We were at Proto

Hi,

Team Druvaa was selected as presenters at Proto.in 2008 FE for the product - Druvaa inSync.

It was a great event with major focus on Indian entrepreneur ecosystem and innovation. Druvaa inSync got a good response, and helped us to understand the target audience better.

Product Presentation -

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Pictures -

More Pictures - http://www.flickr.com/photos/protoin/sets/72157603817064023/

Other finalists - http://blog.proto.in/2008/01/20/protoin-jan08-finalists-web/

Jaspreet

Add comment March 6th, 2008

Hello World

Welcome to Druvaa Blog.

So, we put our block forward for the largest working democracy called the Internet.
We would be using this space as a platform for sharing activities, thoughts and innovations at Druvaa.

May the web be with you …

Jaspreet

Add comment January 3rd, 2008