Commvault SHIFT 2024

Commvault held their annual SHIFT event this week, continuing their focus on cyber resilience with crisis prevention and recovery to keep businesses running. There were four big announcements at the event.

Cloud Rewind

The first was Cloud Rewind, built from the recent Appranix acquisition. As with other recovery technologies, Cloud Rewind allows customers to go back in time to the moment before a breach and recover their data. However the big difference here is this will also recover the infrastructure and metadata back to that point in time. All your cloud architecture, functions, load balancers and so on are also recorded enabling you to not only spot any config drift, but also potentially roll back and reconstruct your cloud estate at the push of a button.

Dependency mapping allows Cloud Rewind to understand all the components of that infrastructure to make sure they are protected, and will include new related resources as they are added over time. Recovery of those resources can be in-place or directed to a different region or tenant, and it’s possible to rollback everything from just one component to the entire estate. Incremental snapshots of the architecture and data can be recorded and intervals just minutes apart, allowing granular recovery to a specific point in time. Commvault’s other tools such as ThreatScan can be used to work out when that time should be by looking for that “last known good” state before systems were compromised.

Cloud Rewind will be Generally Available (GA) in the coming months.

AWS Support

Commvault has supported AWS in some way for many, many years, but the Commvault Cloud has previously been an Azure-hosted solution. When this goes GA in the coming months the full power of Commvault Cloud will be available natively in AWS. This will include features such as cyber-resilience for S3 storage, and the Air Gap Protect and Cleanroom Recovery solutions which protect your environment by keeping a copy outside of your tenancy and allowing systems to be recovered onto a known clean platform. The Cloud Rewind technology discussed above will also be available on AWS for that “Time Machine” style recovery of infrastructure.

The recent acquisition of Clumio will expand this AWS support with it’s focus on cloud-native workloads working alongside Commvaults existing technologies.

Google Cloud Support

Google Cloud isn’t being forgotten here, and Commvault are offering enterprise-grade protection for Google Workspace services such as Gmail and Google Drive. Commvault has traditionally supported a wide range of platforms, bringing protection and recovery into a single place right from when everything was on-premises and we called them “backups”. This is a continuation of that, enabling organisations to protect all their data from one place regardless of where it lives.

As with Azure and AWS, Cloud Rewind will offer recovery support for GCP- making that a real cross-cloud solution for customers.

General Availability is expected by the end of 2024.

Prove Compliance

The fourth major announcement covers a collaboration with Pure Storage to help customers address compliance. Once almost the sole purview of finance and healthcare, it’s now recognised that all organisations, regardless of industry, need to protect both their data and continuity. Legislation such as DORA will be enforcing this and means that companies need to have proven solutions in place or face penalties- even if they didn’t have a breach.

This new solution uses Commvault technologies and Pure’s flash storage solution to provide protected, immutable, encrypted storage with proactive scanning and rapid recovery which should tick all the boxes.

For more information on any of these announcements check out the Commvault Website

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