The Gartner Wake-Up Call Every Cloud Leader Should Hear

If you’re still relying on legacy or SaaS-ish tools, you might be missing the point.

The Great Acceleration and the Protection Gap

What began as cloud migration has become the data revolution powering AI. Every new model, workflow, and insight depends on clean, accessible, protected data. The challenge? Most protection strategies were built for a slower world. Modern resilience demands SaaS-native speed, intelligence, and automation — the same traits driving AI itself.

But all that agility has a paradox: the faster organizations modernize, the more exposed their protection models become. It’s not because the cloud is unsafe, far from it. The issue is that many enterprises are still protecting this new world with approaches built for the last one. 

65% of organizations experienced a cloud security incident last year, but only 6% managed to remediate it within an hour. At the same time, 78% of enterprises now operate across multiple clouds, dramatically increasing operational complexity. 

The takeaway is clear: the enterprise perimeter didn’t disappear, it exploded.

Every major incident we’ve seen this year tells the same story. Organizations assume their cloud provider’s shared responsibility model covers data loss, ransomware, and insider mistakes. It doesn’t. The result? Costly downtime, unrecoverable data, and shattered trust.

Druva’s newly recognized leadership across Gartner, IDC, and GigaOm is more than validation. It’s a clear signal that the rules have changed. Cyber resilience in the cloud demands something different. It can’t be an add-on anymore, it needs to be engineered into the way data moves, lives, and recovers.

Backups ≠ Resilience

The problem isn’t backup, it’s believing that copies = recovery.

Legacy systems were designed for static infrastructure. But today’s environments are dynamic, distributed, and infused with AI. They require a new level of automation, isolation, and recovery readiness that traditional tools were never architected to provide.

Although built‑in backup or snapshot tools from hyperscalers are a start, they were never designed for full‑scale cyber or business resilience. They lack:

• True isolation from ransomware and insider threats. If your primary environment is compromised, so is your backup
• Unified visibility across SaaS, hybrid, and multi‑cloud environments
• Compliance readiness and long‑term retention controls
• Rapid, clean recovery when minutes matter

That’s where a truly SaaS-native approach changes the equation. Instead of layering on top of existing cloud infrastructure, it leverages a purpose-built foundation designed for data protection in motion, at scale, and even under attack. 

Analysts Sound the Alarm: SaaS-Native is Table Stakes

2025 marked a turning point for the industry. The message across every analyst report was unmistakable: SaaS-native is table stakes for true cyber and business resilience. Only pure SaaS is capable of solving the dynamic needs of business resilience today. And no one embodies that shift better than Druva. 

Gartner named Druva a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, highlighting our SaaS-native architecture, AI-powered workflows like Dru Assist and Dru Investigate, and built-in Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) — capabilities delivered as part of the platform, not as add-ons.

IDC’s 2025 Cyber-Recovery MarketScape positioned Druva as a Leader for our air-gapped, immutable backups, AI-driven investigation, and Data Resiliency Guarantee of up to $10 million, proof of confidence that few can match.

GigaOm’s 2025 Radar Report echoed the verdict, naming Druva both the highest ranked Leader and an Outperformer, and praising innovations like autonomous recovery, DruAI anomaly detection, and zero-click resilience.

Together, these recognitions affirm what analysts have been signaling: resilience in the cloud era isn’t about data location, it’s about architecture. Only SaaS-native design delivers the readiness to recover when everything else goes dark.

Only Leader Backed by Analysts and Customers

Analysts look forward: they evaluate architecture, innovation, and long-term strategy.

Customers look around: they judge usability, value, and real-world outcomes.

Most vendors earn credibility in one camp. Druva earned it in both.

On Gartner Peer Insights, Druva maintains a 4.9-star rating in Enterprise Backup & Recovery with 97% willingness to recommend, and a 4.8-star rating in Backup-as-a-Service with 98% recommendation: the highest across its peer group.

On G2, Druva leads in Results, Usability, Implementation, and Relationship: categories that reflect not just technical excellence, but partnership and performance under pressure.

When both analysts and customers agree, when strategy and satisfaction align, that’s not coincidence. That’s leadership with one unmistakable message: legacy and “good‑enough” cloud tools no longer meet the standard.

The Wake-Up Call

The message is clear: the cloud alone isn’t enough. The future will belong not to the fastest movers, but to the most resilient ones. Those who can protect, recover, and adapt at the speed of AI and innovation.

That’s exactly what analysts across Gartner, IDC, and GigaOm recognized: Druva isn’t just following where the market is headed, we’re defining what modern resilience looks like.

So don’t just move to the cloud. Move forward with protection that’s designed for it.