Commvault Debuts Cloud Unity Platform, Resilience Solutions

Recently, Commvault, a leader in enterprise resilience for AI, announced new offerings that unify data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience on a single platform to assist customers.

Commvault Cloud Unity platform brings AI-enabled unified platform

A key announcement for Commvault includes the release of the Commvault Cloud Unity platform, a next-generation, AI-enabled version of Commvault Cloud that unifies data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

“Enterprises are facing the perfect storm: non-stop cyber threats, exacerbated by AI; attacks on identity systems; and recovery challenges that impact revenues and reputations,” said Pranay Ahlawayt, chief technology and AI officer, Commvault. “Commvault brought together the best engineering minds to create a transformative platform release that not only unifies resilience across discipline and environments, but can help customers drive strong business outcomes.”

By unifying data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience in a single platform, customers will have access to a set of solutions that work across their chosen deployment options.

• Data Security: Commvault’s data security capabilities embedded within the platform include AI-driven discovery, classification, and protection policy recommendations, along with data and AI access governance and active monitoring and enforcement. Commvault Cloud’s data security capabilities are enhanced by the recent Satori Cyber acquisition. 
• Cyber Recovery: Customers will access unique AI-enabled recovery capabilities to enable fast, clean, and complete recoveries.
• Identity Resilience: Commvault is expanding its end-to-end Identity Resilience portfolio to help organizations detect, audit, and reverse hard-to-detect threats in identity systems such as Active Directory.

“There have been hints of this type of platform in the industry where these disciplines are coming together,” said Jo Peterson, VP of cloud and security at Cleartech Research. “But for the first time, Commvault has done it in a meaningful way that will truly advance resilience for enterprises globally.”

Advancing recovery capabilities through automation

Among the announcements Commvault made are transformative innovations to help organizations recover cleanly and completely, with fine-tuned automation.

“It’s a business-critical necessity to not only conduct clean recoveries, but keep data loss to an absolute minimum,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault. “We’re enabling that in a way that’s never been possible and while automating recovery validation so that every customer can recover with confidence.”

These innovations are now part of the Commvault Cloud Unity platform:

• Threat Scan Advanced is an innovation that enables customers to utilize AI to identify, analyze, and quarantine suspicious files, detect newly encrypted files, and search for new or specific Indicators of Compromise (IoCs). Commvault notes that this capability could be used to detect malicious file encryption over time and potentially indicate ransomware in play.
• Synthetic Recovery is a new offering from Commvault that uses a unique AI-enabled process to automatically detect threats and remove them during recovery while keeping “good” data intact. With this capability, customers can complete recoveries with minimal data loss.
• Commvault’s Cleanroom Recovery will feature new runbook automation capabilities to accelerate recoveries. It will enable teams to automate the Cleanroom build-out process with specific configurations and settings for testing and validating recoveries.

According to Commvault, these innovations build upon one another. Threat Scan Advanced identifies risks in protected data. At the same time, Synthetic Recovery helps assemble clean data for recovery, with minimal data loss, and Cleanroom Recovery provides a secure space to automate testing and data validation before returning recovered data to protection.

“With these new innovations, Commvault is directly addressing an enterprise need for fast, clean, and confident recovery at scale,” said Archana Venkatraman, a senior research director at IDC. “These capabilities elevate the industry conversation by moving beyond backup hygiene to intelligent, automated restoration. It’s a tangible example of how AI and data validation can work hand-in-hand to accelerate safe business continuity.”

End-to-end identity resilience expansion

Commvault is expanding its end-to-end Identity Resilience portfolio to allow customers to find hard-to-detect threats in Active Directory (AD), automatically log and audit malicious changes, and roll back changes to a trusted, clean state.

“Commvault’s end-to-end Identity Resilience portfolio provides game-changing protection and recovery to customers. And, with Commvault, we go much further,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Commvault’s Chief Product Officer. “We unify identity resilience with data protection and data security on one platform. That means a lower overall TCO for customers and a single, reliable recovery plan for their entire enterprise, not just one workload.”

Active Directory recovery solutions also see updates

Further, Commvault is advancing its AD forest recovery offering, helping teams test recovery plans.

As part of the Commvault Cloud Unity platform release, Commvault’s recently announced identity resilience advancements will help organizations with the following:

• Detecting weaknesses and threats: The advancements will use integrated vulnerability assessment, identity changes, and anomaly detection to track risks across users, groups, and policies in AD.
• Log and audit changes: IT and security teams can see who made what changes, when, and from where, to maintain an audit trail of important change events.
• Reverse unwanted changes in real time: From the change log, IT teams can identify suspicious modifications and quickly roll them back without locating recovery points or objects manually.

“Active Directory serves as the core of our business operations and if compromised, key business functions could be impacted,” said Erich Beter, the senior director of information security at Jazwares. “Commvault’s innovation with Identity Resilience will allow us to detect and roll back malicious identity changes as they happen so that we can maintain reliable authentication and access control while strengthening our overall cyber resilience.”

Additionally, Commvault is integrating its AD forest recovery offering with Cleanroom Recovery. Customers will now be able to recover AD forests in an isolated cleanroom and test their recovery plans in advance, without disrupting their identity systems in production.

A new benchmark for cloud-native data protection

Commvault has also announced, via the release of the Commvault Cloud Unity platform, a new benchmark for cloud-native data protection. 

The new release introduces a re-engineered experience, designed for simplicity, speed, scale, and cost optimization, purpose-built for cloud-first and hybrid enterprises. It features AI-enabled discovery, classification, and protection policy recommendations and is designed to scale resilience in minutes across multi-cloud environments.

Further, Commvault’s latest platform release gives cloud teams a clear view of what is and isn’t protected. Available in Microsoft Azure and AWS marketplaces, the platform release enables organizations to:

• Rapidly onboard with AI-enabled simplicity: An AI-enabled experience automatically finds workloads across an organization’s cloud estates and recommends protection policies based on workload classification while supporting compliance initiatives. 
• Analyze cloud data risk: Discovered cloud resources are analyzed for protection risk, with reports that include the status of existing snapshots of discovered workloads, allowing cloud administrators to see protected versus under-protected workloads.
• Customer-specific TCO analysis: Once cloud resources are automatically discovered, customers will benefit from a TCO analysis that lists unprotected and cloud-protected workloads, along with expected TCO savings.
• Unparalleled multi-cloud and hybrid support: The platform release unifies protection across clouds, regions, and accounts, extending to on-premises environments across data centers and edge locations through a single centralized UI.
• Integrated cyber resilience: Commvault Cloud makes it easy to add additional, integrated cyber resilience capabilities.

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