Carbonite vs Druva

Carbonite is a cloud backup service for individual computers, small business PCs and servers. It was founded in Boston in 2005, bought the security company Webroot in 2019 and was itself acquired by the Canadian software group OpenText in late 2019 for about $1.42 billion. Its core job: install an agent, let it continuously copy your files to encrypted cloud storage, and restore them after a crash, theft or ransomware attack.

Personal plans (Basic, Plus, Prime) cover one computer with unlimited cloud storage; Plus and Prime add one external hard drive and automatic video backup, and Prime adds courier recovery options. Business plans are priced per account rather than per device: Core covers up to 25 computers, external drives and NAS with 250 GB, while Power and Ultimate add server backup, 500 GB, bare metal image restore and application-aware backup. All plans are billed annually; extra business storage costs $99 per 100 GB.

Carbonite fits households and small offices that want backup to run without thinking about it. It is weaker for power users: storage caps on business plans are low for the price, there is no monthly billing, and restores of large data sets are slow over the internet. Backblaze offers simpler unlimited personal backup, IDrive covers many devices on one plan for less, and Acronis bundles backup with stronger endpoint security.

Buying tip: the prices on the plans page are first-year discounts (up to 35% off list), and renewals revert to the higher list price, so compare the renewal cost, not the promo, against Backblaze and IDrive.

Druva is a cloud data protection company founded in 2008 in Pune, India, by former Veritas engineers Jaspreet Singh, Milind Borate and Ramani Kothandaraman, and now headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its Resilience Cloud is delivered as a fully managed SaaS service, so customers back up laptops, SaaS apps, servers and cloud workloads without buying or running backup hardware.

Coverage spans Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and Dynamics 365, endpoints, VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix VMs, SQL and Oracle databases, NAS, AWS and Azure workloads, plus identity data in Entra ID, Active Directory and Okta. Security features include anomaly detection, a quarantine bay, curated recovery after ransomware and managed data detection and response. Plans are per user (Enterprise and Elite) or bundled for SMBs, and prices are quoted rather than published.

Druva fits IT teams that want one console for endpoint and SaaS backup with eDiscovery and legal hold, and mid-size companies that prefer no backup infrastructure at all. It is overkill if you only need to protect a small Google Workspace domain; Spanning and Afi.ai are lighter for SaaS-only backup, and Backblaze is cheaper for simple file and server backup.

Recent development: in early 2026 Druva launched Threat Watch for continuous threat detection, added DruAI agents that compress forensic reporting from days to minutes, and extended protection to Azure Government. Its plan pages now also list AI data such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude as protected workloads.