Druva announced extended data protection and governance support for Microsoft SharePoint Online. Druva inSync provide comprehensive data management solution thus customers can better protect, preserve and discover crucial business data across Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive, to fully protect Microsoft Office 365 investments.

Microsoft Office 365 continues to see aggressive adoption by global enterprises, and according to one leading analyst firm, it will be used by more than 80% of businesses by 2020. Whether data lives on site, on endpoints or in cloud applications, concerns about unintentional or accidental data loss, corruption and leakage, as well as emerging compliance mandates and maintaining legal data integrity persist and need to be addressed.

According to industry analyst firm Gartner, “When production data moves to the cloud, many organizations don’t realize that they are still responsible for their data no matter where it’s located.” 

To overcome these challenges, Druva’s overall support for the Microsoft Office 365 solution, in addition to the new support for SharePoint Online, expands data protection and governance capabilities to bring a holistic view across all end-user data with a single access point for protecting, viewing and managing the data.

With extended support for SharePoint Online, joint customers will benefit from:

Centralized information management: Druva inSync centralizes visibility into corporate data stored within Microsoft Office 365 (OneDrive, Exchange Online and SharePoint) and end-users devices, enabling enterprises to regain control over users’ data. This ensures that both end-user productivity and corporate governance requirements are met.

Robust timely backup and archiving of content to prevent data loss: Druva inSync automatically backs up Office 365 data, cloud to cloud, without impacting the corporate network or requiring user intervention. IT administrators can recover directly back to their Office 365 environment, from any snapshot point, dramatically reducing the time needed to recover lost data.

Comprehensive data governance: Druva inSync collects and preserves dispersed enterprise data wherever it resides — including endpoints and cloud apps. Druva inSync merges all data sources to provide a single dashboard, with customer compliance and legal workflows, so enterprises can easily search, collect and preserve data to support legal and compliance needs.

According to Dave Packer, Vice President of Product and Alliance Marketing, Druva, “Nearly half of all enterprise data lives outside the data center, and is scattered across endpoints and cloud applications. Druva inSync leads the way in simplifying how enterprises manage and protect dispersed business-critical data. We understand that enterprises have distinct data management needs, and we are committed to supporting them accordingly. Druva inSync support for SharePoint online is another step in our mission to give companies a comprehensive view of their data.”