Cloud data protection and management company Druva Inc. today said it’s acquiring CloudLanes Inc. to help it expand into edge computing.

CloudLanes enables its customers to store data safely onsite while still benefiting from the business continuity, short recovery windows and mobility its software-as-a-service model provides.

Founded in 2008 in Pune, India, Druva has carved out a distinctive position for itself in a crowded market by focusing on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. It sells an integrated service that combines data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications into a central repository for backup, data protection, governance and intelligence.

It claims its patented approach is unique because it requires no special hardware or agents and gives organizations a single view of all their information. Among its features are a deduplication technology that works across a customer’s entire backup store.

The advantages Druva provides its customers aren’t lost on investors. Just last month, the company announced it had raised $130 million in a seventh funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $328 million and valuing it at more than $1 billion.

Druva said it acquired hybrid cloud data protection and migration startup because many of its customers are wary of keeping data on on-premises systems. That’s because when they do so, they’re no longer able to take advantage of the cloud’s scalability and other benefits such as instant recovery and rapid deployment.

Druva reckons it can solve that conundrum by integrating CloudLanes’ cloud storage gateway technology with its own. In addition, it will be able to help customers move data from on-premises systems to the cloud much more quickly, at a rate of 70 to 80 terabytes per day.

“CloudLanes’ on-premises software technology provides fast, secure access to cloud storage while supporting legacy storage protocols such as NFS, SMB and iSCSI,” Abhijit Dinkar, co-founder and chief executive officer of CloudLanes, told SiliconANGLE. “These legacy protocols are important for a deeper integration into data center infrastructure such as VMWare, doing record level restores from a database backup, et cetera CloudLanes also provides intelligent caching of data on-premises, which allows for faster access.”

Druva said its new capabilities are designed to appeal to heavily regulated industries such as healthcare and banking, that are faced with strict data governance and compliance requirements that force them to store much of their information in on-premises systems.

“The addition of CloudLanes will bring customers even more access to data, enhanced protection against failures and malicious attack, and help accelerate growth through simple and reliable data protection,” Druva founder and CEO Jaspreet Singh (pictured) said in a statement.

Here’s more from Singh, who appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the VMworld 2018 event last August:

Photo: SiliconANGLE