Commvault debuts Cloud Rewind to spice up enterprise cybersecurity

Cyber resilience is now not simply an choice; it’s a necessity in right now’s data-driven, threat-prone world. At AWS re:Invent, specialists from Commvault Programs Inc. shared new developments in knowledge safety, cloud restoration and fashionable cyber resilience — which embrace its Cloud Rewind resolution.

“The massive piece in being right here at re:Invent, it’s actually about increasing our protection to guard not solely extra workloads’ breadth, but additionally depth,” stated Thomas Bryant (pictured, left), senior director of product advertising and marketing at Commvault. “We’re bringing our platform, our SaaS platform, into AWS in order that clients can leverage it with all the cloud-native capabilities that they’re already utilizing in AWS. But additionally have the ability to make the most of our platform natively inside that platform, after which we’ve additionally made some acquisitions.”

Bryant and Govind Rangasamy (proper), head of restoration options at Commvault, spoke with theCUBE Analysis’s Christophe Bertrand for theCUBE’s persevering with protection of AWS re:Invent, throughout an unique interview on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They mentioned how Commvault is setting a brand new commonplace for safeguarding cloud environments with improvements reminiscent of Cloud Rewind, Air Hole Defend and Cleanroom Restoration. (* Disclosure beneath.)

Increasing platform protection: The ability of air gapping in cybersecurity

Commvault’s SaaS options are actually deeply built-in with AWS’ cloud-native capabilities. This permits organizations to streamline knowledge safety processes and cut back operational complexities. Key acquisitions, reminiscent of Clumio and Backtrack, have enabled IP additions to bolster the platform’s potential to guard various workloads whereas addressing gaps in current knowledge safety techniques. By consolidating capabilities, Commvault ensures that enterprises can depend on a unified platform for seamless knowledge administration and resilience, in keeping with Bryant.

“We’re making an attempt so as to add extra depth to our platform as nicely, as a result of what we discover quite a bit from clients is that they’re making an attempt to consolidate proper now,” he stated. “They’re making an attempt to cut back the gaps that they’ve with a number of knowledge safety platforms. What we’re making an attempt to do is meet clients the place the demand is, and we try this with breadth and depth.”

With the rise of refined cyberattacks, applied sciences reminiscent of Air Hole Defend are pivotal. Commvault launched its air-gapped storage capabilities on AWS, providing an remoted atmosphere for safe knowledge storage and restoration. This ensures that backups stay near the first knowledge, minimizing restoration instances throughout incidents like unintentional deletions or ransomware assaults, Bryant added.

“You are inclined to need to have some stage of information gravity the place your knowledge safety, your cyber resilience and your backups are near the information,” he stated. “You’re not solely defending, however desirous to get well within the case of an accident, a deletion or a cyberattack. We’ve introduced our Air Hole Defend capabilities to AWS Cloud.”

Cloud Rewind boosts cloud app resilience at enterprise scale

Commvault lately debuted its Cloud Rewind functionality. Not like conventional backups that focus solely on utility knowledge, Cloud Rewind offers complete safety for your entire cloud atmosphere. This contains crucial elements reminiscent of community configurations, databases, serverless providers and containers, in keeping with Rangasamy.

“Usually, an utility that runs on AWS tends to make the most of all types of providers and their dependencies,” he stated. “That basically makes up a distributed cloud utility. What do I imply after I say that I’ll defend the atmosphere correctly? I imply all of the providers together with utility knowledge … to have the ability to correctly defend and likewise replicate to a different area.”

By replicating an utility’s atmosphere throughout AWS areas, organizations can obtain near-high availability and rapidly get well from regional failures. Restoration-as-Code, a function of Cloud Rewind, automates this course of, enabling companies to renew operations with minimal downtime, Bryant defined.

“One of many largest gaps that we see with of us proper now’s there’s this false sense of safety with their catastrophe restoration plans,” he stated. “Within the case of a cyber restoration, you possibly can’t actually depend on or belief the information is clear, and so it throws a wrench in these catastrophe restoration plans and incident response plans. This Cleanroom Restoration know-how permits anybody to have the ability to deliver any of their workloads.”

Configuration drift — the place modifications in settings accumulate over time — poses one other problem. Commvault’s automated options deal with this by sustaining a Cloud Time Machine, which preserves constant snapshots of each utility knowledge and configurations, in keeping with Rangasamy.

“The very first thing that we do is to go and uncover all these providers and perceive mechanically the dependencies between these providers that make up the distributed cloud utility,” he stated. “The second factor that we do is to guard all these providers in one thing referred to as a Cloud Time Machine, which has two completely different partitions. One wall protects all of the providers and the configurations, and it does it repeatedly on a Cloud Time Machine. The second is the applying knowledge itself.”

Right here’s theCUBE’s full video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Analysis’s protection of AWS re:Invent: 

(* Disclosure: Commvault Programs Inc. sponsored this phase of theCUBE. Neither Commvault nor different sponsors have editorial management over content material on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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