Commvault is expanding its Cloud Rewind cyber recovery technology for Microsoft Azure, adding broader protection for the infrastructure, configurations, and dependencies that underpin cloud-native and AI applications.
The company said the update triples Cloud Rewind’s Azure resource coverage, extending protection to 62% of the Azure resource types Commvault describes as enterprise-relevant. The expansion is designed to help organizations restore complete cloud applications following cyberattacks, outages, and other disruptions rather than focusing solely on recovering application data.
Cloud Rewind targets complex Azure application recovery
Cloud environments increasingly rely on interconnected services and configurations that can make rebuilding applications after an incident a lengthy process.
Cloud Rewind continuously discovers cloud resources, maps application dependencies, and orchestrates the recovery of applications, along with the infrastructure and configurations required to operate them.
Commvault is also enabling organizations to test application recovery through simulations, including in isolated, air-gapped environments, before an actual disruption occurs.
“Modern applications depend on interconnected cloud services, infrastructure, and configurations that must be recovered together,” said Pranay Ahlawat, chief technology and AI officer at Commvault.
Expanded coverage protects more Azure and hyperscaler resources
The release builds on Commvault’s broader push to extend application-level cyber resilience across hyperscale cloud environments. Earlier this year, the company expanded Cloud Rewind to Google Cloud, adding capabilities to rebuild cloud applications and their dependencies following ransomware attacks, system failures, or deployment errors.
Commvault has also deepened its relationship with Microsoft around Azure, including plans for joint go-to-market initiatives, co-selling, solution development, and native access to Commvault’s AI and cyber resilience technology through Azure.
Policy-based protection automates resource enrollment
The latest Cloud Rewind enhancements also introduce tighter integration with Commvault’s broader backup and recovery platform.
Protection Groups combine application data and cloud configuration within a single air-gapped recovery workflow, allowing teams to manage recovery without stitching together separate tools.
New policy-based protection capabilities can also automatically enroll discovered resources based on attributes including tags, regions, and resource types across multiple cloud environments.
New capabilities could reduce recovery overhead for MSPs
The automation could be particularly relevant for partners and managed service providers responsible for protecting large or rapidly changing customer cloud estates, where manual resource onboarding can add operational overhead.
Cloud Rewind is available as an add-on workload in Commvault Cloud, with pricing based on the amount of protected cloud resources. Commvault said the expanded Azure resource protection announced Tuesday is expected to become available in the coming months.