Jaspreet Singh Introduces Druva

Recorded on February 10, 2011, this video was the first American introduction of Druva and their enterprise endpoint protection product. Jaspreet Singh, Co-Founder and CEO of Druva, introduces the company and its technology, Singh discusses the customer pain points related to endpoint data protection, issues with existing backup solutions, and the new Druva approach.

In his presentation at Tech Field Day 8, Jaspreet Singh introduced Druva as a company focused on providing endpoint data protection solutions for enterprises. Founded by a team of former Veritas engineers, Druva was created to address data protection in increasingly mobile and decentralized workplace environments, prioritizing simplicity, performance, and minimal resource usage. Singh highlighted the growing challenge of managing backup needs across laptops and mobile devices, citing that the average corporate laptop now holds about 10GB of data, and that bandwidth limitations make traditional backup methods impractical. In response, Druva aimed to create a fresh and compelling solution that wasn’t just a repurposing of legacy products.

Singh explained that Druva’s flagship product, inSync, was designed from the ground up for modern endpoints, with a 40MB lightweight stack and seamless deployment that avoids the need for additional infrastructure like databases or web servers. A key differentiator was Druva’s global source-based deduplication, which is application-aware and significantly more accurate than traditional deduplication methods. This deduplication strategy recognizes complex data structures, like those in PST or Office files, determining precise boundaries for emails and attachments to optimize storage and minimize network usage. Druva’s architecture also incorporates multi-threaded backup transfers to reduce latency, works intelligently in varied network conditions, and ensures backups are non-intrusive for end users by regulating CPU and bandwidth usage and delaying backup tasks during startup or battery consumption.

The presentation concluded with a discussion of Druva’s restoration capabilities and forward-looking vision. The inSync product offered rapid, search-based file recovery accessible via desktop, browser, or mobile clients like iPads. While full iPad backup functionality was not yet supported due to platform limitations, Singh shared Druva’s ambition to expand beyond simple backup to broader enterprise data management, including secure remote wipe and data access management. Despite the rise of cloud services like Gmail and Exchange, Singh emphasized that many organizations still store significant data locally on laptops—especially email caches due to corporate server quotas—making laptop backup essential for data recovery and productivity continuity. Druva’s solution therefore aimed to fill existing gaps in endpoint protection with purpose-built technology rather than retrofitted legacy tools.