Commvault HyperScale: Ransomware Resilience to AI-Ready Data Protection

As data volumes grow exponentially and cyberattacks continue to grow and evolve, enterprise IT leaders face an uncomfortable reality: Traditional backup solutions weren’t built for today’s threats or tomorrow’s workloads. Legacy systems struggle with scale, leave security gaps, and force costly upfront investments in unused capacity.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. A single ransomware attack can cost enterprises millions in downtime, recovery efforts, and regulatory penalties. Meanwhile, AI and machine learning initiatives demand high-performance data protection that can keep pace with compute-intensive workloads without becoming a bottleneck.

Commvault’s HyperScale family delivers a fundamentally different approach – one that transforms data protection from a necessary cost center into a strategic enabler of business resilience and innovation.

Business Outcomes That Matter

Eliminate Ransomware Vulnerability Windows

Traditional backup systems create dangerous exposure gaps during lengthy backup windows. HyperScale solutions provide cyber resilience with built-in immutability across multiple layers – from the file system to the hardened Linux OS. Organizations gain confidence that their data remains recoverable even during active attacks, with zero-trust architecture blocking unauthorized admin access.

Real impact: Eliminate the business-disrupting fear of unrecoverable data loss while maintaining continuous business during security incidents.

Accelerate AI and Data-Intensive Workloads

AI training, machine learning pipelines, and modern analytics generate expansive datasets that traditional backup systems can’t handle efficiently. HyperScale solutions deliver the high-performance protection these workloads demand, enabling your innovation initiatives to avoid the constraints of data protection bottlenecks.

Real impact: Enable faster model training, reduce development cycles, and support data science teams with protection that matches their performance requirements.

Right-Size Infrastructure Investment

Stop paying for unused capacity upfront. HyperScale’s flexible architectures let you start with what you need today and expand as requirements grow – whether that’s adding nodes to a storage pool or scaling compute and storage independently.

Real impact: Improve ROI on data protection investments while maintaining flexibility for future growth and changing business needs.

Simplify Multi-Site Operations

For organizations with distributed locations ­– retail chains, manufacturing facilities, branch offices – HyperScale Edge brings enterprise-grade protection to every site without requiring local IT expertise. Centralized management through Command Center enables consistent policies and simplified operations.

Real impact: Reduce operational overhead, enable consistent protection across all locations, and eliminate the complexity of managing diverse backup solutions.

The Right Solution for Every Scale

HyperScale Edge: Enterprise Protection for Distributed Environments

Ideal for: Remote offices, retail locations, manufacturing sites, and primary locations with up to 200TB of data.

Transform how you protect distributed environments. HyperScale Edge delivers enterprise-grade security and recovery capabilities in a single-node configuration that’s simple to deploy and maintain. Built-in ransomware protection with intelligent monitoring detects anomalies and alerts administrators, while the hardened Linux OS provides multiple layers of immutability.

Key capabilities:

• Fixed-capacity storage pools from 15TB to 200TB
• Single-node deployment with minimal operational overhead
• Built-in ransomware protection and zero-trust security
• Reference architecture flexibility with validated hardware options
• Centralized management through Commvault Command Center

HyperScale X: Integrated Scale-Out for Growing Enterprises

Ideal for: Midsize to large enterprises with 100TB to 2.5PB of data requiring scalable, integrated protection.

Bridge the gap between edge simplicity and enterprise scale. HyperScale X combines the ease of appliance deployment with the flexibility of scale-out architecture. Start with a 3-node configuration and add nodes as capacity needs grow, with automatic load balancing and the resilient Commvault File System (CVFS) optimizing performance across the cluster.

Key Capabilities:

• Scale-out architecture with up to 12 nodes per storage pool
• Integrated Commvault File System for optimal data distribution
• Available as appliance or reference architecture
• Automatic load balancing and enhanced performance
• Pay-as-you-grow capacity expansion

HyperScale Flex: Disaggregated Performance for Data-Intensive Workloads

Ideal for: Large enterprises and data-centric organizations with external storage requirements for performance-critical applications.

Achieve cloud-like elasticity in your data center. HyperScale Flex separates compute from storage, enabling independent scaling of each component. Built for accelerated data growth and demanding performance requirements, it supports petabyte-scale deployments with external all-flash storage from leading vendors like Pure Storage, VAST Data, and in the near future, HPE.

Key Capabilities:

• Disaggregated architecture scaling from 1PB to multi-PB
• External storage solutions from industry partners
• Independent compute and storage scaling
• 2-node resiliency with built-in redundancy
• Suited for data intensive workloads

Built to Protect Against Ransomware Threats

Every HyperScale solution shares Commvault’s commitment to cyber resilience:

• Hardened by design: Optimized Linux OS with automated patching and built-in firewall protection.
• Multi-layer immutability: Protection across software, OS, and file system levels.
• Zero-trust architecture: Block unauthorized access and maintain data integrity.
• Intelligent threat detection: Monitor for anomalies and alert on potential ransomware activity.

The Path Forward

The question isn’t whether your organization will face a cyberattack or need to scale data protection – it’s whether you’ll be ready. Legacy backup solutions leave you vulnerable and constrained. HyperScale solutions position you to thrive.

Whether you’re protecting distributed retail locations with HyperScale Edge, scaling enterprise operations with HyperScale X, or powering next-generation AI workloads with HyperScale Flex, you gain more than data protection ­– you gain business resilience, operational efficiency, and the foundation for innovation.

Don’t let yesterday’s backup solutions limit tomorrow’s possibilities. With Commvault HyperScale, your data protection becomes a competitive advantage. Ready to transform your data protection strategy? Learn more about our HyperScale offerings here.