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No Hardware. No Holdups.

With Druva, cyber resilience doesn’t become an infrastructure project. Scale protection without standing up backup servers, planning appliance expansions, or scrambling for hardware.

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Proactive AI (Agentic) Reactive AI (Tool-based)
Built-In.

Prompt DruAI with queries like “show me stale data from orphaned accounts” to identify risk vectors before an attack.

 Bolted-On.

Threat Hunter and IOC scanning work retroactively, forcing you to choose where it runs, interpret results, or integrate with a SIEM.
Actionable.

Ask in plain English and let DruAI fix issues automatically—for example, “Show which EC2 backup jobs failed and explain why".

 Nonexistent.

Veeam is only developing the proposed Copilot integration for Veeam Data Cloud.
Automatic.

DruAI spots anomalies, connects the dots, recommends clean recovery points, and handles the recovery for you.

 Manual.

Veeam Threat Hunter and Recon Blast Radius don’t have built-in AI or natural-language cyber investigations.
Self-Diagnose & Repair.

DruAI spots trends and risks in your environment, suggests fixes, and can take action.

 Chatbot.

Veeam Intelligence is a Veeam documentation-trained chatbot without any context about your environment.

TCO

Lower TCO Higher TCO
100% SaaS solution.

Druva includes everything needed for data protection at no extra cost — storage, compute, software, and security.

 Do-it-yourself challenge.

You source, build, secure, manage, and refresh 7+ Veeam products - each with its own license and infrastructure requirements.
More value for money.

With Druva, more comes included right “out of the box!” Key feature Managed Data Detection and Response services come at no extra costs for all Druva customers.

 Spend more. Get less.

Veeam, costs are coming from everywhere. Need to protect data center and cloud data? Better get ready to buy a few extra products. Want security for your cloud data? That’s not even available.
Hands off.

Fully managed, maintained, and monitored by Druva. Solution is always security hardened and up-to-date with latest features.

 All hands on deck!

It is your headache to keep Veeam and all its server components secure and up-to-date in every location. With 20 critical CVEs in 2024 alone, that’s a lot of overtime to keep Veeam patched and up to date.
Unified.

One cloud-native solution for on-premises, cloud, edge, and SaaS. No additional deployments needed.

 Fragmented.

Separate products and deployments for backing up on-premises, cloud and SaaS workloads.
Efficient.

Built-in global deduplication and storage tiering smartly reduce spend and bandwidth.

 Costly.

Extra costs for backup infrastructure like storage, compute, and even egress fees for restores!
Transparent.

Predictable, pay-as-you-go pricing flexibility based on actual consumption.

 Inconsistent.

Traditional licensing, with complexities of balancing sockets, capacity, workloads, storage, and/or users.
Secure by design Secure by implementation
Modern architecture.

Cloud-native, segregated and fortified microservices layered on robust cloud infrastructure.

 Legacy architecture.

Outdated 3-tier architecture sits in the “line of fire” and is a popular target for hackers and malware due to the many known vulnerabilities in the Veeam software.
Secure by design.

Fully secured and constantly hardened by Druva, monitored 24x7 by security experts, FedRAMP-certified.

 Secure by implementation.

It is your responsibility to know, implement, configure, and maintain security best practices. Hardening, patching, and fixing CVEs are all up to the customer.
Protected.

Entire backup infrastructure — not just storage — is fully air-gapped and immutable with dual-envelope encryption. All built-in. Proactively use backup data for threat detection and hunting across Amazon EC2, Azure VMs, and VMware.

 Exposed.

Air-gapping the backup infrastructure is your responsibility. Providing immutability is also up to you to configure or procure separately through third-party storage.
Proactive.

Managed data detection and response (MDDR) of backups with immediate, human alerting - at no extra cost!

 Manual.

Traditional event notification requires you to correlate and diagnose. Additional vendors required for monitoring services.
Resilient.

Backup application is always available, with guaranteed SLAs. Three copies of data. Separated control and data planes.

 Vulnerable.

Availability is your responsibility. Veeam Backup Server is a single point of failure and needs HA/DR planning.
Resilience decoupled from on-prem capacity.

Continuous data recovery even during data spikes or hardware delays, eliminating concerns about hitting appliance limits or local upgrade projects.

 Ceilings when you need scale most.

Recovery readiness gets constrained by appliance capacity limits and extended lead times, exactly when resilience needs to flex.
SaaS simplicity Legacy challenges
Single UI.

Across all workloads, locations, and data. Secure and consistent user access from anywhere in the world.

 Multiple UI's.

Data center, cloud, and SaaS have their own consoles, policies, development cycles, and learning curves.
Global.

Unified view for endpoint, datacenter, hybrid, cloud and SaaS r data. Federated search, compliance, and legal hold.

 Siloed.

Separate products for different workloads and limited SaaS support make it hard to quickly find data. There’s also no federated search, legal hold, or eDiscovery across edge and SaaS.
Elastic.

Transparent scaling, no hidden costs. Druva TurboTier delivers local backup and recovery, up to TBs/hr restore speeds per instance, and instant VM restores in minutes.

 Static.

With Veeam, you’re responsible for planning growth—overprovisioning wastes money, while underprovisioning hurts performance and SLAs.
Conversational AI.

Dru is a true intelligent copilot to automate and accelerate support operations, as well as aid cyber investigations and incident response.

 Rudimentary AI.

Veeam’s chatbox experience is limited to only 30 queries a day before it risks being overloaded.
Cloud First.

Druva is cloud-native and delivers SaaS backup across supported workloads—from Google Workspace and M365 to Salesforce, Dynamics 365, endpoints, on-premises, and cloud-native environments—making it easy to adopt and scale.

 Cloud last.

Veeam was the last vendor to introduce any native SaaS-based offering, and it is limited to only M365, Azure, and SFDC. For all other workloads you need to build it yourself.
Rapid time-to-value.

With no servers or infrastructure to deploy, customers can protect data immediately with easy onboarding and seamless scaling.

 Prolonged process.

Traditional DIY deployment adds complexity and cost, delaying your first Veeam backup.
Partner-safe motion.

Reduce BOM exposure and delivery risk so deals don’t stall on hardware lead times.

 Margin compression + allocation risk.

OEM repricing/allocation can create delivery risk and margin pressure for hardware-tied motions.
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Ransomware ready Ransomware vulnerable
Advanced threat monitoring.

Druva Threat Insights detects anomalies across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS workloads, using immutable backups to find long-dwell threats, prevent reinfection, and validate clean restore points.

 Limited anomaly detection.

No support for ransomware detection/recovery of key workloads like M365 and cloud data. Needs additional compute resources. Limited to Veeam’s core product only.
Rapid response.

Security teams can begin incident response immediately with backup data in the Druva cloud, even if the primary environment is down, with guaranteed access to tamperproof files and granular change logs.

 Delayed response.

With Veeam, the backup environment must be restored first, delaying incident analysis and recovery and requiring added planning for log access and server resilience.
Secure rollback.

Druva manages a secure cache of deleted files for up to 7 days. Recover deleted backup data with self-service rollback actions.

 No insider protection.

If a bad actor gains access to Veeam and deletes the backup data, there is no recourse.
Accelerated recovery.

Built-in recovery scans automatically detect and remediate malware during recovery - all on Druva compute and with no added effort for you.

 Limited recovery.

Building the recovery workflows is your responsibility. You configure and run the malware scans and manage the remediation yourself.
Curated recovery.

Minimize data loss and accelerate recovery with a curated snapshot containing the most recent, clean files across a given timeline.

 Risk of data loss.

Veeam marks the entire backup set as clean or infected - tossing the good out with the bad. This prolongs the recovery process.
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Why Druva?

Druva provides fully-managed backup, cyber resilience, and compliance  for Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and hybrid workloads in one cloud-native solution.

  • Built-in ransomware protection, legal hold, eDiscovery, and cyber recovery for M365
  • Agentless and immutable backup, proactive threat detection, reactive threat hunting, and rapid recovery across Azure and AWS cloud-native workloads
  • All-inclusive pricing and no egress fees

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Veeam vs. Druva FAQ:

Get the facts on cloud vs. legacy

Cloud services like Druva eliminate the need for upfront expenses on hardware and infrastructure — businesses pay only for the resources they consume in the cloud. This scalability prevents overprovisioning. Additionally, cloud providers benefit from economies of scale, reducing individual organizations' expenses. Maintenance, updates, and admin costs are removed as well, as these responsibilities are shifted to the service provider.

Cloud solutions like Druva enable quicker data recovery compared to on-premises setups like Veeam. Cloud providers offer automated backup, geographically dispersed data centers, and snapshot capabilities, ensuring redundancy and minimizing downtime. Scalability allows instant resource allocation during recovery. In contrast, on-premise solutions require manual backups and often have hardware limitations, leading to longer recovery times.

SaaS solutions like Druva are often more secure than on-premise setups like Veeam due to the robust measures they implement, i.e. advanced protocols, encryption, and continuous monitoring. With dedicated security teams, they can respond rapidly to threats. Additionally, reputable cloud services adhere to strict compliance standards, a level of security that might be challenging for organizations to achieve on their own premises.

SaaS solutions like Druva cater to diverse business sizes efficiently. Large enterprises benefit from the scalability to handle various workloads and optimize costs through pay-as-you-go pricing. Small businesses appreciate the accessibility to advanced technology without hefty upfront investments. Both leverage the flexibility, collaboration tools, and seamless scalability, and tailor resources to match their requirements.

Cloud solutions like Druva seamlessly integrate with hybrid environments, accommodating data on-premises and in the cloud. This flexibility enables data migration, sharing, and processing across platforms, fostering cohesive and scalable protection. Organizations leverage the benefits of cloud services while maintaining control over sensitive or legacy data stored on-premises, achieving a balanced and efficient IT ecosystem.