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Commvault, a provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, recently announced the launch of Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS, designed to accelerate the recovery of an organization’s critical AI and analytics workloads at a massive scale, while establishing a new data lakehouse protection standard.
New solution addresses resilience concerns in data architecture
The solution delivers Iceberg-aware, air-gapped cyber resilience in a time when Apache Iceberg is on the rise. According to the State of the Data Lakehouse survey from Dremio, over 70 percent of IT and data professionals expect the data lakehouse to be the primary architecture for their analytics within the next three years.
Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS is built to close protection gaps from native and traditional backup tools, supporting organizations’ data security, compliance, and recovery requirements.
Organizations are left vulnerable to data loss, ransomware attacks, and compliance risks because modern data lakehouses built on Apache Iceberg are foundational to AI and analytics initiatives that lack robust and native data resilience.
Native snapshots and airgapped copies key to the offering
According to Commvault, native snapshots are a first step tied to the source account and lack a true air-gapped copy, not designed for large-scale, point-in-time recovery. That makes them vulnerable to the same risks, and organizations face extended downtime and a high risk of data inconsistency when restoring from non-Iceberg-aware backups that often require complex manual processes to rewire and reconfigure tables.
“The data that powers AI and analytics is one of the most valuable assets for an organization, yet it’s often the most exposed,” said Woon Jung, chief technology officer, Cloud Native at Commvault. “With Clumio for Apache Iceberg, we are providing the industry’s first true safety net for the data lakehouse. For the first time, organizations can protect their AI and analytics data with an air-gapped, automated solution, allowing them to accelerate innovation with confidence.”
Among the benefits and features of the solution are:
- Iceberg-aware data resilience: The solution offers fast, reliable, and transactionally consistent backups to capture a complete state of data, and it intrinsically understands Iceberg table structures. It is designed to eliminate manual, error-prone restores and support a range of recovery options, including point-in-time, snapshot-level, cross-region, cross-account, and in-place restore.
- Immutable, air-gapped copies for cyber resilience: Safeguards backups in an isolated environment that is designed to be secure, helping to protect critical data against ransomware, account compromise, and accidental or malicious deletions.
- Automated compliance and governance: It helps organizations support compliance and governance requirements in a cost-effective manner with unlimited, long-term snapshot retention– without impacting the performance of the live data lake.
- Optimized storage costs and footprint: Reduces backup windows and lowers storage costs by capturing only the changes made after the initial full backup.
“This explosion of data lakehouse environments for AI has created a blind spot in many enterprises’ data protection strategies,” said Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Director, IDC. “Apache-aware data protection such as Commvault’s Clumio for Apache Iceberg directly addresses emerging governance risks with air-gapped, transactionally aware recovery that is becoming an imperative now. It’s a timely solution for a fast-rising market vulnerability.”
Clumio for Apache Iceberg is generally available now in the AWS Marketplace. It supports both self-managed tables via the AWS Glue Data Catalog and fully managed tables via Amazon S3 Tables.
Commvault continues to support organizations in providing data protection and establishing partnerships to achieve this goal. Read more about Commvault’s partnership with Platform9 to safeguard modern private cloud workloads.
