Commvault is deepening its partnership with Google Cloud as enterprises face mounting pressure to improve cyber resilience across cloud and hybrid environments.
The expanded collaboration adds new immutable backup, rapid recovery, and compliance-focused capabilities to Commvault’s platform for Google Cloud customers, targeting ransomware threats, insider risks, and growing regulatory demands.
Expanding cyber resilience for cloud-first enterprises
As organizations continue migrating mission-critical workloads to the cloud, resilience requirements are becoming more complex.
Ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication, recovery time objectives are shrinking, and compliance obligations are intensifying across industries.
Commvault positioned its latest Google Cloud enhancements as a response to these challenges, citing industry data showing that cloud attacks are rising sharply and that ransomware incidents are leading to prolonged operational downtime.
“Cyber resilience is a critical requirement for enterprises operating in the cloud today,” said Asad Khan, the senior director, product management, storage, at Google Cloud.
“With Commvault’s Air Gap Protect, Cloud Rewind, and enhanced data protection for Google Workspace, customers gain additional defenses against ransomware and the ability to rapidly restore applications and data running on Google Cloud,” Khan continued.
The company’s goal is to help cloud-first and hybrid organizations maintain recoverability and compliance from a single, unified platform.
Immutable, air-gapped protection moves to Google Cloud
A centerpiece of the announcement is the expansion of Commvault’s Air Gap Protect (AGP) for Google Cloud.
The offering enables immutable, indelible backups stored in an isolated, virtually air-gapped environment within Google Cloud, separating backup data from production systems.
By isolating backups, Commvault aims to protect customers from ransomware attacks that increasingly target backup infrastructure to prevent recovery.
The update also includes a compliance-ready Archive Tier, designed to support regulatory retention requirements while optimizing long-term storage costs.
“Organizations are under immense pressure to outpace cyberattacks that increasingly target backup environments,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Commvault’s chief products officer.
“By expanding our collaboration with Google Cloud, we’re giving enterprises the confidence that their critical data and cloud applications are protected, isolated, and recoverable, so their business never stops,” Kottomtharayil continued.
Application “rewind” targets faster recovery
Commvault is also extending its Cloud Rewind capabilities to Google Cloud customers.
Cloud Rewind allows organizations to rapidly and cleanly rebuild cloud applications, including their dependencies, following ransomware events, system failures, or deployment errors.
Application recovery has become a growing concern for enterprises running complex, interconnected workloads in the cloud.
Commvault said Cloud Rewind is designed to reduce recovery times by allowing organizations to roll applications back to a known-good state, helping maintain business continuity even during major incidents.
The company framed the capability as particularly important for enterprise environments where application downtime can have cascading operational and financial impacts.
Enhanced eDiscovery for Google Workspace
The expanded collaboration also builds on Commvault’s existing Google Workspace protection by adding advanced compliance-search capabilities to its eDiscovery offering.
With the update, customers can more quickly locate, search, and export data—such as emails and files—from Google Workspace backups for audits, litigation, and internal investigations.
Commvault said the enhancements are intended to reduce the time and cost associated with eDiscovery while supporting legal and regulatory obligations.
Availability and partner implications
Commvault said its expanded Air Gap Protect capabilities for Google Cloud are available immediately.
Cloud Rewind and Google Workspace protection are available through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
The new compliance-search capabilities for Google Workspace are currently in early access, with general availability targeted for the first half of 2026.
For channel partners and MSPs supporting cloud migrations and managed security services, the announcement underscores the growing emphasis on backup security, rapid recovery, and compliance as core components of cloud resilience strategies.
“Ransomware continues to evolve, with attackers increasingly targeting data backup infrastructure to limit recovery options,” said Todd Thiemann, a principal analyst at Omdia. “Commvault’s expansion with Google Cloud, including immutable backups and cross-project recovery, represents an important advancement for enterprises seeking cyber resilience in cloud environments.”