If you’re wondering why you’d be running say Google Apps AND Box … let me introduce you to the SMB customer, where this is more common than you’d think. As adoption of Cloud solutions grow, that ‘single pane of glass’ becomes more important. So as well as one product to cover multiple Cloud SaaS products, you also have control over and visibility of files on devices. Sharepoint Online support is on the roadmap for 2017. If you’re using Office 365 (OneDrive for Business & Exchange Online), Google Apps for Work (Gmail & Google Drive) or Box, you can include those too. Within your organization, you can back up data on desktops/laptops (Windows, Mac or Linux), smartphones, tablets and BYO devices – up to 10 devices per person (license). The first thing that got my attention was that Druva’s inSync product supports a number of different data sources. As a guest of Tech Field Day, I met the Druva team in their San Jose office. Recently, I had the chance to learn about a different approach to Cloud backups and data compliance. Most commonly, the providers are focussed on protecting a single solution, e.g. This has opened the market to a significant amount of Cloud backup providers who vary in price, backup frequency and backup location. Others would argue (strongly) that the resilience is purely for the SaaS provider’s benefit should there be an infrastructure failure and that your restoration options are limited if you need to recover from a data corruption or intentional, historical deletion (think of rogue ex-employees when you don’t discover the damage until after they’ve long gone). Some would argue that the resilience and redundancy built into services like Office 365 mean that paying for any additional backup solution is overkill and unnecessary. The need to back up files you’re storing in the Cloud is a contentious topic.
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