Why are the other MQ Leaders huddling in the corner? Because they all brought legacy architecture to a cloud-native fight.
The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms is out and Druva is a Leader for the second year running — the only 100% SaaS platform in the Leaders quadrant.
How did Druva move up so fast? We left the hardware baggage behind. Gartner recognized three things that make that difference real:
- Dru MetaGraph: identity-aware data mapping, so you recover by user and access context, not just file location
- DruAI: AI-driven forensic automation that cuts investigation time
- Security architecture: backups isolated from your network, with multi-person authorization and 24/7 monitoring
In the Critical Capabilities report, Druva earned an "excellent" rating for ransomware protection, detection, and recovery.
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