Unlocking a New Era of Data Security: Druva and Microsoft Azure

Data security isn’t just an IT checkbox — it’s the backbone of business resilience. As your cloud footprint expands, so does the complexity of defending against data breaches, ransomware attacks, and compliance violations. Who’s really in command of your organization’s future — you, or the bad actors?

That’s where we step in. Druva and Microsoft have joined forces to shake things up and redefine cloud data security as you know it. How can our new strategic relationship impact your business? Seamless, cloud-native protection integrating Druva’s advanced data security capabilities with Microsoft Azure’s powerful infrastructure. Let’s dig into what this really means.

The New Reality of Data Security

Go ahead — ask anyone in your organization (or any enterprise, for that matter) where they’re centralizing data and applications. Hint: it’s definitely not on premises in that dusty old data center. It’s in the cloud — often across multiple clouds — and within SaaS applications.

A shift like this brings new expectations and challenges: more simplicity, elastic scalability, and better cost efficiency — plus the ever-growing maze of data security and compliance requirements. In today’s threat landscape, comprehensive data security across public clouds (without juggling a mess of multiple technologies, processes, and billing models) has been, well, practically impossible. Until now.

This isn’t just another vendor slapping a “multi-cloud” label on software hosted on Azure. This is a true, cloud-native solution that makes securing Microsoft workloads simpler, more cost-effective, and inherently more resilient. When two cloud-native leaders — Druva and Microsoft — join forces, enterprises win. 

The Power of Choice: Why Azure Storage Matters

Microsoft Azure is more than a cloud provider — it’s a strategic investment for businesses. You dedicate precious resources, budgets, and infrastructure to Azure, expecting a seamless and integrated experience across workloads. With our new support for Azure Storage, customers now have the flexibility to align their data protection and data security strategy with their broader Microsoft investments.

Plus, with stringent regulations like GDPR and CCPA, businesses have to make sure their data is secure, compliant, and stored in the right geographic regions. Azure’s expansive global data center network simplifies compliance, allowing organizations to meet regulatory requirements without complexity.

Beyond the Buzzwords: A True Multi-Cloud Experience

Many vendors claim to offer “multi-cloud” solutions simply because they run on multiple platforms. The reality? Most still rely on convoluted infrastructure, manual configurations, and high data transfer costs. That’s not multi-cloud protection — that’s just marketing.

Druva is different. Designed natively for the cloud, we eliminate complexity and deliver a fully automated experience. Protect cloud-native workloads (AWS, Azure), SaaS applications (Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Entra ID, and more), and hybrid environments (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and more) — all without deploying or maintaining a single server. Multi-cloud protection isn’t an add-on, it's a core design principle.

Tailored Protection for Every Cloud Strategy

Druva is uniquely positioned to empower enterprises with data security, integrity, and compliance across their cloud ecosystems — whether they’re operating within a single cloud or a multi-cloud environment — all from a fully managed SaaS platform. Let’s look at how Druva tackles three common cloud protection needs.

Cloud-to-Cloud Protection: Air-Gapped Data Security & Microsoft-Only Data Residency

Organizations operating exclusively within the Microsoft ecosystem require a seamless, secure, and compliant data protection solution that aligns with their existing cloud infrastructure. With this Microsoft Azure integration, Druva enables the automation and air-gapped protection customers require with no infrastructure.

Multi-Cloud Protection: Flexibility & Simplified Management for Multi-Cloud Environments

Enterprises leveraging Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms like AWS need a unified data protection strategy. By offering agentless deployment and policy-based automation, Druva guarantees organizations can efficiently protect and secure data across their multi-cloud environments with minimal overhead.

Cross-Cloud Compliance: True Cloud-Native Data Protection for Regulated Industries

Industries with strict regulatory requirements like finance, healthcare, and government agencies require cross-cloud data resilience to meet compliance mandates while maintaining flexibility in their cloud strategy.

The Growing Urgency for Cloud-Native Data Security Now

Cyber threats are surging, with ransomware damages projected to reach $265 billion by 2031. Cloud adoption is skyrocketing and you need data security that scales as fast as you do.

Traditional backup solutions were designed for a bygone era — one where IT teams wrangled physical servers, storage appliances, and complex network configurations. But that’s not how businesses run today. In a cloud-driven world, you need solutions that are as agile as the cloud itself. You need:

• Effective cyber resiliency to ensure business continuity in any situation.

• Lower operational costs with no infrastructure management.

• Built-in compliance, security, and data resilience.

The future of data protection isn’t just about where your data is stored — it’s about how quickly you can recover it. In this era of relentless cyber threats, recovery speed is everything.

Why Druva Is The Right Partner for Microsoft Workloads

Druva has a long history of protecting Microsoft environments, covering everything from Microsoft 365 to Azure Virtual Machines and Microsoft Entra ID. Now, we’ve expanded our support even further to Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 Backup Storage (Druva Microsoft 365 Backup Express), and a security integration with Microsoft Sentinel. Because of our deep integration with Microsoft technologies, businesses get a seamless, unified approach to data security — no need to juggle multiple tools, vendors, or clunky manual processes.

To put this in perspective, nearly half of our 7,500 customers use Druva to support M365 workloads. In the last year alone, we saw a 33% increase in active users backing up M365 with Druva. Additionally, after launching support for Azure VMs a year prior, we've seen 57% customer growth and 110% in data protected in the last two quarters. On top of that, Druva sets the standard for customer experience with an industry-leading NPS score of 89.

Through this integration with Microsoft Azure, our customers gain:

• Cloud Flexibility: Protect and secure cloud and on-premises workloads with the flexibility to choose Azure storage to better meet strategy, spend, and business resilience goals.

• Global Deduplication: Reduce Azure storage consumption and lower overall storage costs by up to 40% with automated storage tiering and Druva’s patent-pending global deduplication engine.

• Unlimited Scalability: Eliminate the need to deploy any hardware, software or storage and scale on-demand without incurring additional costs.

• Unified Data Security: Druva uniquely provides customers with a single-view of their data security from end-users to cloud workloads and SaaS applications, empowering users to act decisively at the first sign of a threat.

Our upcoming availability in the Azure Marketplace offers enterprises one further important benefit, the ability to apply 100% of their spend towards their Microsoft Azure Cloud Commitment (MACC).

Your data is the lifeblood of your business — why would you leave it vulnerable? When two cloud-native giants combine forces, businesses don’t just win, they dominate.

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