SHIFT 2024 is a landmark event for Commvault, showcasing our latest innovations designed to empower organizations in their journey toward enhanced cyber resilience. The news about Commvault Cloud Rewind, our focus on AWS, and new support for Google Workplace is just the tip of the iceberg.

Here’s a comprehensive summary of the key announcements that will shape the future of data protection and cyber resilience.

Extending Resilience to the Edge

Today’s cyber resilience often focuses on data centers, leaving edge and remote sites vulnerable. Commvault introduces Hyperscale X Edge, a solution designed to extend resilience to the edge, covering retail locations, factory floors, IoT, and beyond. This simple-to-deploy, secure outpost offers unified management, ensuring comprehensive protection across all environments.

Enhanced Compliance Capabilities

With increasing regulatory pressures, proving operational resilience is crucial. Commvault has partnered with Pure Storage to support DORA compliance. Additionally, upcoming offerings will give customers new levels of customization for on-premises, customer-managed implementations to address data privacy and regulatory requirements without sacrificing cloud-like simplicity and unified management.  

Enhanced Cybersecurity Capabilities

Recovery and Forensics

Commvault is enhancing its cybersecurity capabilities with new innovations aimed at accelerating recovery and forensics. This includes forest recovery for Active Directory and change analysis. Integration with Splunk and Palo Alto Networks XSOAR significantly improves forensic capabilities, helping organizations respond to incidents more effectively.

Minimizing Risk with Advanced Detection

Commvault Cloud capabilities are designed to minimize the impact of cyberattacks by reducing data security risks and proactively detecting threats. Key features include:

• Early warning: Utilizing cyber deception and virtual decoys to detect bad actors early.
• Anomaly & threat detection: Continuous monitoring for indicators of compromise across environments.
• Data security risk analysis & remediation: Offering a clear view of data classification and protection, with actionable insights to remediate high-risk scenarios.
• Cloud resource discovery: Through the acquisition of Appranix, now called Cloud Rewind, Commvault now can discover and protect cloud-native resources, reducing blind spots and associated risks.

Cyber Readiness and Regulatory Compliance

Improving Cyber Recovery Readiness

Commvault emphasizes the importance of continual cyber recovery readiness. Unique capabilities include:

• On-demand cleanroom provisioning & recovery testing: Leveraging cloud elasticity for frequent, isolated recovery testing.
• Cloud application rebuild testing: Automating daily recovery and rebuilds of cloud applications to ensure readiness.

Accelerating Recovery

Commvault Cloud helps protect organizational reputation and revenue by speeding up trusted recovery with:

• Automated cloud application rebuilding: Eliminating the gap between data recovery and business recovery by automating the rebuild of full applications.
• Rapid, scalable cyber recovery: The fastest, most reliable recovery at the lowest TCO utilizing AI capabilities.
• Cleanpoint validation: Automating the validation of clean recovery points to enable rapid, trusted recovery.

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Embracing the Cloud-First Future

Cloud is the undeniable future for modern enterprises. Commvault’s solutions address cloud-first challenges, enabling organizations to leverage cloud architectures, services, automation, and scaling to unlock revolutionary ways to strengthen resilience. This approach enables businesses to maintain a constant state of readiness, and rebuild rapidly and completely.

New Customer Education Offerings

Visit the Commvault Readiverse to explore learning opportunities designed to boost your career, modernize your cyber resilience strategies, and improve your organization’s readiness in the face of ever-changing threats. Learn what it takes to create a cyber resilience plan in the Cyber Resilience Planning Workshop, a two-hour, instructor-led workshop where participants learn how to identify and plan for mission-critical data streams, infrastructure weaknesses, and key employees.  

New Professional Services Offerings

Commvault introduces new services to enhance cyber resilience:

• Cyber Resilience Assessment: A five-day workshop to assess and improve an organization’s cyber resilience maturity.
• Cyber Resilience Guardian: Offering twice-a-year maturity checks and a cyber response service to boost internal collaboration and execution of cyber resiliency plans.

Conclusion

SHIFT 2024 sets the stage for a new era of cyber resilience. Commvault’s latest innovations and services are designed to help organizations navigate the complexities of a cloud-first world so that they are prepared to face and overcome cyber threats with confidence. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to lead the way in data protection and cyber resilience.