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Druva Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms

Data Protection Platform

Druva recently secured a major industry milestone from analyst firm Gartner. The company achieved a leadership position for its modern Data Protection Platform. Specifically, this recognition highlights Druva’s second consecutive year in the coveted Leaders quadrant. Gartner evaluated top industry vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. This milestone validates Druva’s ongoing commitment to enterprise security.

The Evolution of Enterprise Data Security

Today, enterprise operations face a completely new phase of digital threats. Artificial intelligence now embeds itself deeply across standard business workflows. Furthermore, corporate identity connects heavily to how users access corporate data.

Modern backup and recovery can no longer operate as isolated infrastructure. Consequently, IT and security teams require deeper insights when data disruptions occur. Teams must quickly understand every single change in their systems. They must also determine which specific files they can trust. Finally, they need to restore core operations with total confidence. This modern approach requires a highly context-aware foundation. Therefore, an elite Data Protection Platform must connect data, metadata, identities, permissions, and recovery history.

Innovative SaaS Architecture and AI Features

Druva built its platform with a fully managed SaaS architecture. This smart design successfully isolates backup data and credentials from the primary corporate network. Simultaneously, the framework drastically reduces customer-managed infrastructure.

Through its unique Dru MetaGraph technology, Druva brings graph-based context to standard backup and recovery. This feature helps organizations easily map relationships across data, metadata, identity, and permissions. Additionally, the company extends this foundation using DruAI. This integration brings AI-driven investigation, identity-aware recovery, and advanced agentic workflows. Customers can therefore restore critical data along with its identity and permission context. Users achieve all of this without managing complex backup infrastructure. This comprehensive Data Protection Platform truly redefines modern cyber resilience.

Organizations globally continue to adopt these cloud-native capabilities to combat sophisticated ransomware. As a result, companies experience faster recovery times during critical outages. Druva remains a trusted partner for modern enterprise data management.

“AI is accelerating both cyber threats and day-to-day change across the enterprise,” said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. “As AI becomes part of more workflows, data protection has to preserve the context organizations need when something goes wrong, including what changed, which identities and permissions were involved, and which data can be trusted. In our opinion, being named a Leader for the second consecutive year reflects the growing need for fully managed SaaS data protection built for this level of speed, context and security.”

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Source: Businesswire