- Brings together data protection, security, intelligence, and
recovery on one platform
- Offers AI capabilities to defeat cyber threats; includes
integration with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
- Advances reliable recovery with industry's first cleanroom
recovery service
- Introduces four packaged bundles, including Platinum
Resilience: a new standard in cyber resilience hosted in the
cloud
NEW
YORK, Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- COMMVAULT
SHIFT -- Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and
data protection solutions for hybrid cloud organizations, today
announced Commvault Cloud, powered by Metallic AI – a new, unique
platform that is changing the game in how IT and security teams can
radically improve cyber resilience in an era of non-stop ransomware
and malicious cyberattacks.
Commvault Cloud unifies all of the company's SaaS and software
offerings on one platform, where visibility and control can be
managed holistically via a single pane of glass. But Commvault
Cloud goes much further. This new platform is purpose-built for
cyber resilience, designed to enable users to predict threats
faster, make clean recoveries, and accelerate threat response times
– all at the lowest possible TCO. And, with Commvault Cloud's
unique architecture, customers can secure and recover their data,
across any workload, any infrastructure, and from any location to
any location.
The need for modern cyber resilience has never been greater. If,
for example, an organization is unable to recover from an attack in
a matter of hours, that can directly impact brand reputations and
customer loyalty. Yet, according to a recent IDC research study of
more than 500 ITOps and SecOps respondents, 59% expect a cyber
recovery to take days or weeks, which is unacceptable when trying
to keep businesses up and running.1
"Achieving enterprise-grade cyber resilience is more than
building taller walls or deeper moats. It requires a new approach
that looks holistically across the entire landscape, from
best-in-class data protection and security to AI-powered data
intelligence and lightning-fast recovery," said Sanjay Mirchandani, President and CEO,
Commvault. "With these advanced capabilities and a rich and growing
partner ecosystem, our unique and consolidated platform is the new
standard in cyber resilience."
Advancing Cyber Resilience and Data Intelligence with AI and
Commvault Cloud
Commvault is introducing innovations that
can help customers realize the full benefits of AI and improve
cyber resilience. And, unlike others that use AI to simply generate
content, Commvault is using AI in a way that can help customers
take action. Here is how it works.
With Commvault Cloud users will have access to Arlie – short for
"Autonomous Resilience" – a new AI co-pilot that is at their beck
and call 24/7 and can respond to inquiries in plain, simple
language. But behind the scenes, a lot more is taking place. Arlie
will interface with generative AI models that not only consolidate
information and reports, but provide users with personalized
actionable responses. For example, users may be able to use Arlie
to verify or validate a clean point of recovery for critical
systems, or generate requested code in seconds.
Arlie will integrate on the backend with Azure OpenAI Service.
New AI-enabled capabilities that support this type of
personal/human interaction within Commvault Cloud will include:
- Active insights: Gives users real-time threat
analysis and report summaries showing the latest information about
their cyber resiliency health, removing the need to sift through
filters and reports to prioritize the most pressing
information.
- Code assistance: Offers a "no-code" way to build an
integration or code an action: users simply type a description of
what they want to do, and the code assistant will generate the code
on the spot.
- Custom walk-throughs: Provides context-sensitive,
guided product walk-throughs that make it easy for users to set-up,
customize, and tune Commvault Cloud to their specifications. They
simply ask "how to" questions and receive step-by-step
documentation with annotated screenshots.
- Root cause remediation: Constantly monitors the
performance of Commvault Cloud using generative AI to find issues
and offer real-time recommendations on how to optimize cyber
resilience.
Commvault is also announcing AI and security advancements that
are coded directly into Commvault Cloud and "show up" as
intelligent insights baked into daily workflows. Capabilities that
match this description include:
- Advanced threat prediction: Utilizes real-time
predictive threat analysis to find AI-driven ransomware, including
detection of shape-shifting AI malware, before they impact
customers' backups and ability to recover cleanly.
- Cloudburst Recovery: Improves business continuity
by utilizing infrastructure-as-code and cloud-scaling to automate
rapid and frictionless recovery of data to any location. Users
benefit from exceptional portability, as well as a low TCO as a
result of the accelerated process.
"Organizations rely heavily on their digital data to keep the
operations running efficiently and customer services functional.
This is why ransomware is so disruptive," said Jennifer Glenn, Research Director for IDC
Security and Trust Group. "Whether on-premises, in the cloud or
hybrid, the need for modern, AI-supported cyber resilience, such as
Commvault's offering, are incredibly important for today's
businesses."
Advancing Clean Recoveries with Commvault Cloud and Microsoft
Azure
After a cyberattack, having a clean backup is
critical, and so is having a clean location for recovery. That's
why Commvault is announcing Cleanroom Recovery. With Commvault
Cloud, and in collaboration with Microsoft Azure, customers can use
this service to recover to a cleanroom in the cloud "at the ready,"
helping to ensure rapid, frictionless, and reliable recoveries.
This offering is great for customers that want to conduct incident
response testing on a routine basis.
Commvault Cloud Goes Platinum
Commvault is introducing
Platinum Resilience, a fully managed service that provides
unmatched protection, engagement, and responsiveness to
cybersecurity threats and disaster situations. This service, which
is being introduced to select customers as part of an early access
preview program with full availability planned in early CY 2024,
provides the following:
- Everything from A-Z: Enterprise-grade backup and
recovery, advanced AI driven automation, cyber deception, recovery
testing and readiness checks, advanced reporting, security audits,
custom telemetry, and so much more.
- A dedicated, secured, isolated control plane: For
powerful and comprehensive hybrid data protection and resilience,
with the ease of use of the cloud.
- A ransomware readiness and response team available
24x7: To optimize everything from setup to ongoing testing
and validation to recovery upon a cyber event.
Commvault is so confident that Platinum Resilience offers the
best in end-to-end cyber resilience, it comes with the Commvault
Protection Warranty to give everyone from IT managers to board
members piece of mind that recovery from an attack is
guaranteed.
Customers wishing to be part of the early access program should
click here. Commvault is also offering a variety of other packaged
bundled solutions that provide exceptional choice based on the
needs of the customer.
Ushering New Opportunities for Customers on Oracle Cloud
Marketplace
Commvault also announced today that customers
can access the power of Commvault Cloud via private offers through
the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, a centralized repository of
enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Oracle partners.
Through this integration, customers can now procure and provision
tested Commvault solutions directly from the Oracle Cloud
Marketplace.
Commvault Cloud is also available on: Microsoft Azure
Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, and Salesforce
AppExchange.
Supporting Quotes: Partners
Dell Technologies: "The new API integration between
Dell's industry-leading purpose-built backup appliances and
Commvault Cloud, powered by Metallic AI, comes at a time of
escalating threats and the need for rapid and comprehensive cyber
resilience," said David Noy, Vice
President, Product Management, Data Protection, Dell Technologies.
"We believe this integration will simplify management, increase
performance and efficiency, and provide seamless access to our
unique cyber recovery vaults."
Fujitsu: "We are excited about the innovation Commvault
is bringing to solve customers' cyber resilience challenges," said
Christian Leutner, Head of European
Platform Business, Fujitsu. "Their focus on security, data
protection, AI and business continuity is perfectly aligned with
our strategic focus at Fujitsu."
Hitachi Vantara: "Cyber resiliency in today's hybrid
cloud environments is one of the most critical issues facing our
customers," said Dan McConnell, SVP
Product Management, Enterprise Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara.
"Today's announcement establishes Commvault as a leader in the
space. Hitachi Vantara and Commvault are strategically aligned in
helping customers address this issue."
HPE: "Data is the fuel of the AI era, and HPE is
radically simplifying how our customers store, manage and protect
it, so they can extract full value," said Kyle Fitze, Vice President for Partner Enabled
and OEM Products, HPE Storage. "Building on our long-standing
relationship and integrations with Commvault, we're thrilled to
offer new Commvault Cloud capabilities to our joint customers as a
complement to HPE technologies. The built-in security and AI
capabilities will play a vital role in helping enterprises optimize
and protect their data."
Microsoft: "Together, Microsoft and Commvault
brought Cyber Resilience with the power of the Microsoft Cloud as a
service to thousands of enterprises. Then, we added the power of
air-gapped, immutable, and indelible storage in the cloud. Now we
are building on that with Commvault's Cleanroom Recovery with
Microsoft. It's designed to enable customers to confidently recover
to Azure by providing a clean location and recovery environment –
which is critical in the face of an attack," said Alvaro Celis, VP Solution Areas ISVs,
Microsoft.
Oracle: "As enterprises face heightened cyber
threats, the availability of Commvault's cyber resilience platform
on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace can help customers keep their data
protected, secure, and resilient," said David Hicks, Group Vice President, Worldwide ISV
Cloud Business Development, Oracle.
Pure Storage: "Speed and scale are at the heart of
Pure Storage's collaboration with Commvault and together we have a
singular vision: to build massively scalable solutions that
prioritize our customers' needs," said Mark
Bridges, Head of Global Alliances, Pure Storage. "We are
reinforcing our longstanding relationship to provide ultra-fast
recovery at scale, empowering our customers to operate with
confidence – especially in today's digital age where threats like
ransomware are a constant."
VAST Data: "VAST Data is revolutionizing accelerated
computing by delivering ground-breaking infrastructure that
provides the performance, scale and simplicity required for
managing today's most-demanding workloads – all at transformative
economics," said George Axberg III,
Vice President, Data Protection, VAST Data. "By combining
Commvault's next-gen autonomous resilience capabilities with the
VAST Data Platform, together we are advancing AI-powered-cyber
resiliency for our joint customers, offering data protection,
security against ransomware, and faster return to normal operations
across core, edge, and cloud environments."
Supporting Quotes: Customers
American Pacific Mortgage: "Every security and IT
leader is pressured to do more with less," said Michele Buschman, CIO, American Pacific
Mortgage. "That's why I'm excited to see Commvault using AI to
drive cyber recovery with the power CISOs require, and with the
cloud simplicity, speed, and scale my team wants on a daily
basis."
Persistent: "At Persistent, we know cyber
resilience," said Rajiv Sodhi,
Senior Vice President for Hyperscaler Business and Strategic
Alliances, Persistent. "We proactively chose to become an
early adopter of Commvault Cloud, enhancing our own security
posture with fast recovery and AI capabilities. We are excited to
now bring a new standard for cyber resilience to our clients
through our partnership with Commvault."
Related Announcements and Availability
Today, Commvault also announced extensive integrations with
leading security and AI partners that can help customers improve
their security posture and get more value from their existing
infrastructure. For more on that, please read this press
release.
The following offerings are targeted for general availability by
the end of the calendar year in tandem with Commvault's next
software release: Unified management between the company's SaaS and
software offerings on one platform with Commvault Cloud,
Commvault's AI co-pilot Arlie, active insights, code assistance,
custom walk-throughs, root cause remediation, advanced threat
prediction, Cloudburst Recovery, and Cleanroom Recovery.
About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold
standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to
uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks –
keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company's unique
AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection,
exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and
lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest
TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast
partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve
governance, and do more with data.
1 Goodwin, P. (2023). The cyber-resilient
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