Commvault, Pinecone Team on Enterprise AI Stack Resilience

Commvault, an organization focused on unified resilience at enterprise scale, has announced a partnership with Pinecone, a vector database for building AI applications at scale in production.

Securing enterprise AI stacks

The partnership was established to bring cyber resilience capabilities to joint customers, helping enterprises protect and rapidly recover vector retrieval workloads that power retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other AI use cases.

Through a new solution, Commvault’s capabilities will be extended to include retrieval workloads, adding a layer of resilience on top of Pinecone’s durable, natively backed-up vector storage.

Databases like Pinecone give systems fast access to the knowledge they need for training and delivering accurate, context-aware responses. 

While foundational to AI accuracy, enterprises in highly regulated industries with advanced compliance controls have limited options for safeguarding data against corruption, deletion, or attacks.

Immutable backup and point-in-time recovery address resiliency needs

This new offering addresses resilience by enabling immutable backups, point-in-time recovery (PITR), and customizable extended retention of vector data, on top of Pinecone’s natively durable object storage and built-in backup system, without impacting query latency.

It will be delivered via Commvault Cloud and supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and multi-cloud deployments. 

The solution offers a unified approach to enterprise AI resilience, enabling organizations to elevate their RAG systems from experimental prototypes to always-on, resilient production environments.

“As enterprises embed AI deeper into their operations and leverage RAG, the vector database layer has become mission-critical; increasingly, these organizations seek additional layers of protection and compliance beyond their already highly durable systems. With Pinecone, we are closing that protection gap,” said Pranay Ahlawat, chief technology and AI officer at Commvault. “We’re enabling AI stacks to operate with the same confidence, governance, and recoverability that traditional workloads demand.”

Among the key features and benefits of the solution are:

• Accelerated PITR keeps AI applications running: The solution enables restoring vector indexes to a prior state, minimizing downtime and preserving quality during RAG inference. This background process occurs when a model generates an output.
• Protection against data poisoning, evasion, privacy, and abuse attacks: Backups will be stored as encrypted, air-gapped, immutable copies to help enable clean recovery from malicious injection or accidental deletion.
• Unified cyber resilience across clouds: A single platform delivers advanced protection for Pinecone deployments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, to reduce fragmentation and enable consistent security and recovery.
• Support compliance and audit readiness: The solution maintains indelible, auditable copies to support governance, regulatory, and audit requirements in AI workflows.

“Pinecone is built for performance and scale, and our customers trust us with their most critical AI assets,” said Pinecone’s VP of Product, Jeff Zhu. “Partnering with Commvaut allows us to offer an even deeper level of resilience for organizations with complex compliance needs.”

Commvault also recently partnered with Delinea to expand its security ecosystem. Read more about the partnership to bolster privileged access controls and reduce credential-related risks.