Unify Data Security, Recovery & Identity with Commvault Cloud
▼ Summary
– Commvault has launched the Commvault Cloud Unity platform, an AI-enabled solution that unifies data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
– Enterprises face challenges from AI-generated data increasing threat vectors, siloed security tools, and the need for resilience across diverse IT environments, which the new platform aims to address.
– The platform integrates AI-enabled data security features like discovery, classification, and governance, enhanced by the acquisition of Satori Cyber, to protect against cyber threats.
– It provides AI-driven cyber recovery capabilities, including Synthetic Recovery, to enable fast and complete data restoration by removing compromised data after an attack.
– Commvault Cloud Unity centralizes protection and governance, reducing downtime and unifying intelligence across systems to help organizations optimize resilience and drive business outcomes.
Commvault has launched its new Commvault Cloud Unity platform, a comprehensive solution designed to integrate data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience into a single, AI-powered system. This platform supports cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments, offering organizations a unified approach to managing their most critical data protection needs.
Modern enterprises face three pressing issues that complicate data management. First, the rapid expansion of AI technologies generates enormous amounts of distributed data, creating new vulnerabilities that malicious actors can target. Second, many companies rely on separate, disconnected tools for securing, backing up, and restoring data, systems that were not built to communicate with one another. Third, there is no universal strategy that fits every organization, since IT infrastructures often span on-premises data centers, multiple cloud services, and hybrid setups, each requiring tailored resilience measures.
The Commvault Cloud Unity platform directly confronts these challenges. Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault, observed that businesses are navigating a “perfect storm” of relentless cyber threats, identity system breaches, and complex recovery processes that can harm both revenue and brand reputation. He emphasized that Commvault assembled a top engineering team to develop a platform that unifies resilience across different IT domains and deployment models, ultimately supporting stronger business results.
By converging data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience into one environment, the platform gives customers a cohesive set of tools that operate smoothly across their chosen infrastructure. In the area of data security, the system incorporates AI-driven discovery, classification, and protection policy recommendations, alongside governance for data and AI access, plus continuous monitoring and enforcement. These capabilities will be further strengthened through Commvault’s recent acquisition of Satori Cyber.
For cyber recovery, users gain access to advanced AI-enabled features that support rapid and thorough data restoration. One notable innovation is Synthetic Recovery, which allows IT and security teams to precisely excise corrupted data after an attack while restoring unaffected information, minimizing operational disruption.
The platform also expands Commvault’s identity resilience offerings, enabling businesses to identify, audit, and remediate subtle threats within identity systems such as Active Directory. This end-to-end approach helps protect against unauthorized access and credential-based attacks.
Jo Peterson, Vice President of Cloud and Security at Cleartech Research, noted that while other vendors have explored combining these functions, Commvault has delivered a genuinely impactful platform that can significantly advance enterprise resilience on a global scale.
Additional advantages of the Commvault Cloud Unity release include unified protection for all workloads and locations, which helps reduce downtime and improve the availability of reliable business data. It also provides unified governance, allowing security, identity, and recovery teams to coordinate policy monitoring, enforcement, and threat response from a single interface. Furthermore, by consolidating intelligence from disparate systems, including security alerts, identity patterns, and recovery analytics, the platform enables AI-informed actions that help customers optimize their overall resilience posture.
Allen Downs, Security & Resiliency Vice President at Kyndryl, highlighted that robust data security forms the bedrock of mission-critical IT infrastructure. Strengthening cyber resilience and recovery capabilities allows organizations to better anticipate, withstand, and rebound from disruptive incidents, making resilience an essential priority in the current digital landscape.
(Source: HelpNet Security)
