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Druva SaaS Apps Protection
SaaS data, protected SaaS-natively — four apps air-gapped outside every blast radius, with one federated index answering the legal request in minutes.
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Druva protects the SaaS estate SaaS-natively: Microsoft 365 (Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams), Google Workspace, Salesforce and Microsoft Entra ID backed up into the Data Security Cloud — copies air-gapped outside the app vendors' blast radius, retained on your policy instead of their 30-93-day windows, restorable from one item to a full org point-in-time, with federated search, legal hold and eDiscovery riding the same copies. A cloud-born platform protecting cloud-born data is the architectural fit; zero infrastructure is the operational one.
The Druva platform family
This page covers SaaS Apps. The rest of the five-family platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- SaaS Apps — M365 · Google Workspace · Salesforce · Entra ID
- Vendor
- Druva (Pune-born 2008 · 100% SaaS · $2B+ unicorn)
- M365 scope
- Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams — the full estate
- Salesforce
- Records AND metadata — the deploy-gone-wrong covered
- Entra ID
- Identity objects the native recycle bin skips
- Air gap
- Copies outside Microsoft/Google/Salesforce's blast radius
- Governance
- Federated search, legal hold, eDiscovery on the same copies
- Retention
- Your policy — years, not vendor windows
- Licensing
- Per user / month, per app
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand SaaS backup before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is SaaS application backup?
Independent, policy-governed copies of the data in M365, Workspace, Salesforce and Entra ID — outside the vendors’ blast radius, on your retention, restorable at any scope, searchable as one estate.
The operative word is independent: a copy inside the same vendor, on their timetable, is a recycle bin.
Recycle-bin faith vs independent protection — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Vendor retention + three consoles | Air-gapped, federated (Druva) |
|---|---|---|
| The premise | 'The vendor keeps it' — recycle-bin faith | Independent, air-gapped copies |
| Deleted 94+ days ago | Gone, with apologies | Restored from any point in time |
| Compromised admin | Sweeps everything, bins age out | Copies his tokens can't reach |
| Legal request | Three consoles and a panic | One federated search, minutes |
| Salesforce deploy disaster | Metadata chaos, rebuild week | Metadata rollback |
| Entra objects | Half a recycle bin | Captured and restorable |
| Multi-suite estates | A point tool per app | Four apps, one platform |
| Infrastructure | A backup server for your SaaS (?) | None — APIs to air gap |
Adoption is connectors-and-policies in an afternoon — and the first federated search converts the sceptics.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
API Capture
Graph, Google and Salesforce APIs drive throttling-aware continuous capture — no agents, no gateways, nothing deployed.
Air-Gap Store
Copies live in Druva's AWS — a compromised tenant, admin or app vendor outage can't touch them.
Unified Index
One search across mail, files, sites and records — the item found in seconds, the legal request answered in minutes.
Governance Layer
Legal holds and eDiscovery workflows on the same copies — compliance without a second data silo.
Policy Plane
Seven years for finance, ninety days for interns — your obligations as configuration.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Capture, restore, govern.
Druva closes the gap the SaaS vendors put in writing — and federates the governance they never will.
Microsoft 365 — Full Estate
Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams — including the channel conversations and files legal always requests.
Google Workspace
Gmail, Drive and shared drives — the Google half of hybrid estates under the same policy plane.
Salesforce Data + Metadata
Records, files AND the fields/flows/permissions that run the org — the deploy-disaster covered.
Entra ID Objects
Users, groups and configuration the native recycle bin half-covers — identity beside the data it gates.
Outside Every Blast Radius
Copies in Druva's AWS — independent of your tenant, your admins and the app vendors themselves.
Item-Level Recovery
One mail, one file version, one record — found by search, restored in minutes, delegable to helpdesk.
Org Point-in-Time
The tenant or org as it stood before the sweep, the sync disaster or the bad deploy.
Leaver Restore
Departed users' data restored to successors — and their licences released instead of haunting the bill.
Federated Search
One index across mail, files, sites and records — the legal request answered from one screen.
Legal Hold
Custodian holds across the estate that survive deletions and departures — counsel-grade preservation.
eDiscovery Workflows
Collection and export on the same copies — no second archive silo to buy or trust.
Your Retention Policy
Years by group, not vendor windows — compliance obligations as configuration.
Watch the SaaS protection
The M365 demo, the Salesforce demo and the security posture behind both.
Protecting Your Microsoft 365 Environment with Druva
The M365 estate protected end to end.
Salesforce Demo
Records and metadata protection for the CRM.
Druva Security Center Product Demo
The security posture behind the SaaS protection.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Druva SaaS apart from the alternatives.
SaaS protecting SaaS is the right shape
No backup servers for your serverless estate — a cloud-born platform capturing cloud-born data via APIs, with nothing to deploy and nothing to patch. The architecture matches the problem.
Outside every blast radius
Copies in Druva's AWS survive the compromised tenant, the malicious admin AND the app vendor's bad day — independence from Microsoft/Google/Salesforce is the entire definition of backup.
Four apps, one governance plane
Federated search, legal hold and eDiscovery across M365, Workspace and Salesforce together — the month-14 legal request answered from one index instead of three consoles.
Entra ID joined the estate
Identity objects and configuration the native bin half-covers — captured beside the data they gate.
Salesforce with the metadata
Records AND the fields/flows/permissions that run them — the deploy-gone-wrong is a rollback, not a rebuild week.
The MDDR umbrella covers this too
The same 24/7 managed detection watching your data-centre backups watches the SaaS estate — one staffed SOC across everything.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Druva SaaS journey looks like
SaaS census
Tenants, users, suites, retention obligations and the legal-exposure map — TechBag runs it free.
Protected
Connectors and policies — the estate starts backing up the same afternoon. Big tenants: plan the baseline window.
Restore & search drills
Item restores, a Teams-with-files recovery, a Salesforce metadata rollback and a federated legal search — timed.
Governed steady state
Retention by group, holds ready, MDDR watching — and the recycle-bin era formally over. TechBag manages renewals.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“A compromised admin account ran a deletion sweep across SharePoint. The copies lived where his tokens meant nothing — restored by end of day.”
“Legal asked for a Teams thread from 18 months back plus the files. Federated search found it in minutes; the export was counsel-ready.”
“We run M365 AND Workspace after an acquisition — one retention policy across both was the deciding feature.”
“Salesforce metadata restore turned a broken deployment into a Tuesday task. Our previous 'backup' was weekly exports.”
“Setup was connectors and policies — protected the same afternoon. There is genuinely nothing to deploy.”
“Big-tenant first baseline takes time — Graph throttling is physics. Plan the window; incrementals vanish into the background.”
“Entra ID backup saved a mangled conditional-access change window. The native bin would have shrugged.”
“Per-user pricing across four apps adds up — bundle negotiation with the endpoint estate improved the math notably.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the SaaS backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag SaaS-Backup Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Four apps + governance at zero infrastructure — this page's subject.
Governance Depth × Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — search/hold/eDiscovery depth vs operational weight.
Governance depth at SaaS-native lightness — the balanced corner.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Druva vs the SaaS-backup field
All the majors have live hubs on this site — the honest lanes, custody differences included.
| Dimension | Druva | Veeam M365 | Commvault | Keepit | Native retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & model | SaaS-native, four apps | The volume leader | Platform four-app scope | Dedicated pure-play | The recycle bin |
| Governance (search/hold/eDiscovery) | Federated, built in | Solid | Platform Compliance tooling | Good | Vendor tools |
| Salesforce metadata | Data + metadata | Via Veeam SFDC product | Data + metadata + sandboxes | Covered | 15-day bin |
| Storage & custody | Druva's AWS | BYO or Veeam SaaS | Commvault Azure | Keepit cloud | The vendor's own |
| Wider-estate tie-in | The Druva platform | The Veeam estate | The Commvault estate | Standalone | None |
| Economics | Per user per app | Volume-leader rates | Per user per app | Sharp | 'Free' |
| Best fit | Multi-suite estates & governance needs | M365-deep with sovereignty needs | Platform consolidators | Point-tool buyers | Nobody with legal exposure |
Which SaaS-backup path fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Druva if…
- ✓Your estate spans multiple suites (M365 + Workspace + SFDC)
- ✓Federated search / legal hold across all of it matters
- ✓Zero infrastructure is the operating model
- ✓Endpoints and MDDR will join the same platform
Choose Veeam if…
- ✓M365-deep with BYO-storage sovereignty needs — hub live
Choose Commvault if…
- ✓SaaS apps beside the data centre on one platform — hub live
Choose Keepit if…
- ✓A dedicated point tool at sharp price is the whole need
Trust native retention if…
- ✓You enjoy explaining the gap to legal (you won't)
What does the retention gap cost you?
Drag the sliders (count SaaS users). Estimates assume ~1.5 IT-hours per user per year across recovery scrambles, ghost-licence waste and manual hold work, with ~65% removed by federated restore and governance — the month-14 legal request is the unpriced tail. Illustrative and conservative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Priced per user per app with platform bundles. TechBag negotiates the mix — endpoints included — in one GST quote.
Single suite
Best for the first gap
- Per user / month
- Air gap + your retention
- Item-to-org restore
Multi-suite
Best for hybrid estates
- M365 + Workspace + SFDC together
- One federated governance plane
- Bundle rates negotiable
+ Endpoints & MDDR
Best on the full platform
- Same users, same platform
- One staffed SOC over everything
- TechBag models the bundle
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your device counts and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every SaaS-backup vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Read the shared-responsibility clauses of M365/Workspace/Salesforce to the room. The silence is the case.
Run one legal-style search across mail + files + records in the PoC. Time it against your current three-console reality.
Restore a channel conversation WITH its files — the request legal actually makes.
Break a sandbox flow and roll it back — the Salesforce deploy-disaster rehearsal.
Export, delete, restore a test conditional-access policy. The native bin won't help.
Get the honest first-backup estimate for your tenant size — throttling is physics.
Confirm the India-region option in writing if regulated.
Endpoints joining too? The per-user math improves bundled — quote them together.
Questions buyers ask
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Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.