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Here at Commvault, our values – we connect, we inspire, we care, we deliver – are foundational to everything we do.

This week we hosted our quarterly internal Global Town Hall meeting and presented our CEO Living Our Values Awards. This quarterly awards program helps us globally recognize and celebrate our Vaulters for their incredible work as they live our values every day.

I’m so proud to announce our FY24 Q1 CEO Living Our Values Award winners:

Craig Glover

Lindsey Keenan

Talent Team

Critical Situation Team

Competitive Marketing Campaign Team

All these winners set an inspiring example and embody what it truly means to be a Vaulter!

To learn more about what it’s like to work at Commvault, check out our careers site.

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If you think a ransomware attack is the worst thing to happen to your organization, I hate to tell you – That’s only the beginning.

Don’t misunderstand – an attack is awful. But after an attack, you’re somewhat of a wounded gazelle and the predators start circling. While you may not be responsible for the attack itself, if you mishandle the recovery, regulatory requirements, and communication, you may be hit with fines and lawsuits. And if that isn’t enough: attackers, competitors, and even potential acquirors and activists may seize the opportunity to pounce.

Which is why, as a Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and an independent board member, I believe you need a proven, practiced data protection plan long before your data is compromised. To help you through this, here are four steps I would take in weighing and responding to an attack:

#1 Secure your Perimeter. At the first sign of an attack, you need to slam the door shut, stop the bleeding. CrowdStrike recently estimated that an attack window is 84 minutes. That’s how long you have before data is bricked, exfiltrated, or destroyed. You don’t have time to debate and the moment you need to close all entry and access points to your business, a ransomware attack cannot be first time you bring the cross-functional team of IT, Security, Legal and others together. You need to be a well-oiled machine and act fast. Practice this like a drill. Know what assets you have, what they access – and be prepared to shut it all down.  

#2 Assess the Damage. Once the perimeter is secure, you must assess the damage. What data was exposed or taken? What damage was done? What is your contractual obligation for maintaining and protecting customer or constituent data? How does this impact you in terms of industry, state, federal, and international regulations? There are more disclosure requirements on the horizon and as PwC recently noted its 2023 Global Digital Trust Insights survey, “only 9% of the respondents feel highly confident that they can effectively meet all disclosure requirements.” The sooner your team is engaged in the planning, assessment, and remediation process, the better.

#3 Were you a victim or negligent? Did you leave the perimeter unsecured? Did you have loose access or security controls? Do you have a data protection plan in place? When was your last tabletop exercise or system tests? Were the right controls in place to prevent (or quickly detect) the attack? Do you have cybersecurity awareness training in place for employees so they’ve learned how to identify phishing attempts? Customers expect that when they give you their data, you will protect it. Having a data protection plan or solution in place is the cost of doing business. Without it, you are not a victim.

#4 Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Be transparent with your critical stakeholders. The speed in which you disclose can be a delicate balance because you’re still assessing the impact, identifying the root cause, and remediating. Clearly, your CEO and C-Suite leaders need to know as soon as possible and you’ll alert your Board of Directors. But the most important people you need to communicate with are those impacted by the breach, such as your customers, partners, or employees. You need to notify them as soon as possible.

Bottom line: The attackers are on the horizon, they get smarter everyday and time is not your friend. These steps will help you detect and recover quicker from an attack and will give you the confidence that you have taken responsible, informed steps to protect your data.

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AI: A Transformative Force in Various Industries

AI is ushering in a profound transformation across the world today, revolutionizing various aspects of our daily lives and industries. From the way we communicate to the services we use, AI has become an omnipresent force.

  • In healthcare, AI aids in diagnosis and treatment, enhancing patient care and accelerating medical research.
  • AI-driven virtual assistants have become our reliable companions, streamlining tasks, and making our homes smarter. It is shaping the future of transportation through self-driving vehicles, promoting efficiency and safety on the roads.
  • In finance, AI-driven algorithms optimize investments and detect fraudulent activities, securing our financial transactions.
  • AI also plays a pivotal role in addressing global challenges, such as climate change, by optimizing energy consumption and weather forecasting.

With its ability to process vast amounts of data and learn from experience, AI is constantly evolving, presenting boundless opportunities for innovation and progress.

As AI permeates deeper into our society, its transformative impact is becoming increasingly evident, redefining the world we live in and inspiring a future of limitless possibilities.

AI Empowering Data Protection: Fortifying Defenses Against Cyber Threats

The art of the possible in the data protection industry is magnified by the transformative power of AI. With AI’s unparalleled ability to analyze and process vast amounts of data, organizations can fortify their defenses against ever-evolving cyber threats. AI-driven solutions enable real-time threat detection, identifying potential breaches and anomalies before they escalate, complete with an automated approach to recovery in case of any eventuality.

Automated data protection with backup and recovery processes ensure data integrity, while AI’s predictive analytics not only anticipate hardware failures and optimize storage management but also provide the ability to become a proactive and intelligent endeavor in streamlining data protection and recovery operations that are aligned with business SLAs, as AI continuously learns from historical data, improving its predictive capabilities over time.

This convergence of human expertise and AI-driven insights empowers the data protection industry to stay one step ahead, securing sensitive information and fostering resilience in the face of cyber and disastrous events. Embracing AI in data protection is not just a possibility; it’s a powerful reality that sets the stage for a safer and more secure digital future.

Democratizing AI: Commvault’s Commitment to Innovation

As the global technology landscape continues to evolve, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has quickly become a cornerstone of innovation. At Commvault, we believe in the democratization of this game-changing technology, making it accessible to organizations of all sizes and across various sectors.

The goal is not only to leverage AI in streamlining operations but also to use it to revolutionize the user experience and the way that security operations interact and collaborate with data protection teams for seamless recovery of data and IT operations, thereby minimizing downtime in the face of cyber or disaster events. The integration of AI into Commvault’s Data Protection Platform is a testament to this commitment.

Data Protection: Safeguarding the Lifeblood of Organizations

It is crucial for all organizations to recognize the significance of data protection, backup, and recovery in today’s world. These aspects play a pivotal role in an organization’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) planning.

As AI revolutionizes various industries, understanding the importance of safeguarding data becomes paramount. Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and without robust protection measures, the risk of data loss, cyber threats, and operational disruptions increases significantly. By comprehending the essence of data protection, backup, and recovery, individuals can actively contribute to their organization’s resilience and preparedness in the face of potential disasters.

As AI drives innovations in technology and data management, fostering a collective awareness of the critical role data protection plays empowers us all to ensure the continuity and longevity of our organizations in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

AI-Driven Automation: Redefining Data Protection Processes

Data Protection technologies provide the much-needed data protected copies of organizations’ data, serving as the “Insurance Policy” to help them recover after a cyber-attack or natural calamity. These technologies safeguard valuable data and keep the operations running even in the face of disasters, cyber-attacks, or system failures.

The traditional backup and recovery processes, while essential, are often time-consuming and demand considerable manual effort. This is where AI comes in. With Commvault platform’s AI-driven capabilities, Commvault helps automate routine tasks, enhancing system efficiency, and reducing technical debt.

AI-Powered Insights: Enhancing Data Protection Efficiency

Commvault’s platform uses AI for management by exception, analyzing the status and completion time of thousands of daily backup jobs to learn typical behavior and identify anomalies. The platform can provide granular views, right down to jobs/events with a curated view of unique or unusual events based on their frequency, severity, and type, reducing any operational overheads. This helps with faster triaging as the data points supplemented are not contaminated with false positives.

Commvault’s AI capabilities also include file anomaly detection as “Indicators of Attack” and entropy analysis for “Indicators of Compromise” for identifying potential ransomware attacks or file compromises.

Fostering User Experience: AI-Powered Analytics and Reports

At Commvault, the vision of AI transcends automation. Commvault is committed to using AI to enhance the user experience. Our AI-powered solutions provide insightful analytics and comprehensive reports, enabling administrators and decision-makers to make data-led business decisions.

A Smarter Data Protection Solution for the Future

We are excited about the prospects that AI holds for us and for our customers. Together, we are paving the way for a smarter, more efficient data protection solution that is future-ready and future-proof.

Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts as we delve into the advanced capabilities within Commvault, fortified by AI/ML, that empower organizations to safeguard their valuable data with confidence of recovery readiness and provide peace of mind to businesses!

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Businesses of all sizes have turned to, standardized on, and leaned into cloud-delivered technology. From private to public, the cloud offers the unique capability to reimagine IT infrastructure and how we develop and consume applications. But as with any modernization process, it doesn’t come without challenges.

Protecting data in and across clouds can be difficult.

Native tooling offers baseline utilities, but cloud platforms aren’t purpose-built for data protection. While leading IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) providers deliver robust, durable, and highly performant platforms to consume cloud services, they aren’t steeped in comprehensive backup and recovery of data.

With emerging cyber threats on the rise, today’s businesses must understand their role in protecting data stored in the cloud, and the gaps that overreliance on native tooling present to their business (and data).

The Laws of Protecting Cloud Data

To start, it’s important to understand your business’ role in data protection. Whether at the edge, in the data center, or (drumroll…) across any of your new favorite SaaS or IaaS platforms, the Shared Responsibility Model dictates that protecting data is always the customer’s responsibility. After all, it is YOUR data.

This common principle has led many businesses to consider backup utilities residing within native platforms. What modern businesses commonly find is that they need more. They need dedicated security tools that minimize the risk of an attack on data. They need rapid response capabilities that drive business continuity and mitigate loss. They need standardized management, compliance, and protection that layers across disparate cloud and on-prem environments.

So how do dedicated data protection solutions deliver? Here are three irreplaceable elements of third-party protection for your cloud data:

  1. Isolation and Immutability
    Data protection best practices revolve around preserving and maintaining pristine data copies. This is particularly important when facing data loss at the hands of advanced cyber threats, rogue administrators, or accidental user deletion. At its core, safeguarding data in the cloud demands the need for source-side data isolation.

    With native tooling, production and tertiary copies live within the same security boundary – meaning that impacted production environments could neutralize backup utilizes or data copies themselves. How would I effectively recover if my compromised environment also contained my backups? Air-gapping data outside source environments separates backup data into a separate security domain. This means events occurring in and around cloud platforms cannot also leap into backup copies. Additionally, immutable-by-design architectures ensure data remains unmodified, unaltered, and can’t be tampered with. This further reduces the risk of impact, applying a zero-trust approach to ensuring clean data is available and recoverable at a moment’s notice.

  2. Protection, Recoverability, and Compliance
    Cloud service providers have a lot on their plates. From availability and uptime, to access and performance, best-in-class offerings deliver reliable environments to run your applications and your business. But they can’t be everything to everyone. When facing a data loss event, businesses must have confidence and proven solutions to get data back quickly – without compromise.

    Dedicated data protection solutions offer elevated performance in the realm of backup, retention, and recoverability. This is the ability to safeguard structured or unstructured cloud data at scale, for comprehensive and deep coverage of unique data types living in diverse workloads and applications. Built-in, long-term retention offers extended protection of active and deleted data beyond recycling bin and tombstone limits. Granular and flexible recovery, powers version-level recoveries and mass environment-wide restores. And dedicated controls help maintain data compliance with local, regulatory, and internal regulations.

    This level of precision, speed, and control enables businesses to uniquely meet backup and recovery SLAs while adhering to the most rigorous confidentiality, integrity, and availability standards for government agencies and businesses, alike.

  3. Cloud-Agnostic Coverage
    Businesses operate in a hybrid and multi-cloud world. Application adoption, mergers and acquisitions, and line of business needs have introduced myriad cloud applications and infrastructures – all with varying levels of native backup utilities. This disparity across environments introduces risk as data in the cloud is siloed, requires case-by-case oversight, and consumes IT overhead to safeguard.

    Protecting and managing cloud data estates requires a uniform platform that reaches across disjointed cloud and SaaS environments and eliminates gaps. This simplifies data protection workflows and reduces blind spots by consolidating backups, compliance, and recoveries under one hood. It enables centralized governance and can also accelerate cloud adoption, knowing enterprises have a single experience to protect data uniformly across existing and future investments.

Is your data living in the cloud? For more information on safeguarding cloud and SaaS workloads, visit the following page.

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The digital age has brought with it a whole host of new challenges, especially the unwelcome and relentless assault from ransomware and other threats. This has been compounded by pandemic and the hybrid workplace, which has broadened the attack surface for phishing and other social engineering attacks that target employees’ home offices and data.

It’s not just business, it’s personal.

As Security and IT professionals, we’ve done what we can to harden our environment accordingly. We’ve strengthened our perimeter, stayed on top of our endpoint controls, security patching, embraced zero-trust guiding principles, and introduced more proactive and rigorous data protection strategies. It’s a constant evolving battlefield with complexities and challenges. We do this at the speed of business while being mindful of our spend to manage risk and deliver great service to our customers.

But let’s face it. Today, in most cases, you are your family’s Security or IT practitioner. And data (and the subsequent threats) goes wherever our employees go, which is all the more reason to extend cybersecurity awareness education and training programs outside the office to ensure our people are ready to be our first line of defense.

As a CISO, here are my recommendations for doing this:

First, if it isn’t already, investing in ongoing awareness programs needs to be one of your priorities in 2023. Protection is not limited to one person or one team. A CISO and its team of security practitioners are core to a Security program, however the true strength is in numbers. In other words, by educating and engaging the entire organization on online safety protocols, businesses can be better equipped for cyberthreats. This starts with teaching them how to recognize phishing emails or malicious links containing malware; identity theft prevention techniques; and use encryption and password best practices.

Next, you need to encourage them to take proactive steps to protect their home and office networks, which includes physical security vigilance by protecting their devices and being vigilant of their surroundings. Maintaining regular software updates and security patches; securing their home wireless networks; encrypting sensitive data and files to ensure authorized access; setting strong and unique passwords; and using multi-factor authentication as an extra layer of protection. Frankly, it’s good hygiene for work and for home.

Last, but certainly not least, as a CISO or IT professional, you too need to get personal by creating an atmosphere where employees feel comfortable asking questions about data protection. This comfort, trust, and open line of communication is critical to engage with your workplace and for employees to own their safety measures.

It’s not enough to hope that you aren’t impacted by an incident or breach. It’s improbable. After all, it’s just a matter of time until you are attacked. And cyberattacks have become increasingly sophisticated, with malicious actors using a range of tactics to gain access to your assets and sensitive information to disrupt your business or personal life. Phishing emails, ransomware campaigns, and malware downloads are just the start, so make sure your employees are educated, engaged, and ready for whatever little devil arrives at home, in the office, or on the road.

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As a longstanding Microsoft partner, one of the most anticipated events of the year is Microsoft Inspire – happening this week (July 18th – 19th). As cyberthreats, AI, and hybrid cloud environments continue to reshape the current business landscape, there’ll be a significant focus on all things data.

And, also, protecting that data.

Today’s customers face significant data challenges. Organizations are under immense pressure to safeguard their business from internal and external attacks. As risks mount, today’s organizations need trusted technologies and partners with proven solutions they can rely on. Solutions that uniformly protect their data from new and emerging threats. Coverage that layers across data centers, clouds, and beyond – for future-proof protection today and tomorrow.

This need is what’s driven Commvault to deliver next-generation data protection and security capabilities alongside Microsoft innovations.

In fact, in the recently released ESG Study, Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Data Protection with Commvault on Azure, customers share why they trust Commvault and why the Commvault/Microsoft relationship is so important to them. One customer summed it up best when they stated, “With Microsoft and Commvault, changes in the cloud are non-issues for us.” This is why more of your customers than ever before are turning to Commvault to protect their data, providing the confidence they need to accelerate their cloud journey.

Driving Innovations for Today’s Businesses

Constant innovation has fueled the Commvault/Microsoft partnership for over two decades to deliver unique capabilities for a future-proof, ready for anything data protection strategy. As Nathan McAfee, Senior Economic Analyst at ESG, comments “the shared roadmaps between the two organizations provide assurance that, as needs change, the solution will grow to meet expanded data protection requirements.” Or, as another customer stated it so eloquently, “We never have to worry about Commvault or Microsoft going away. We sleep better at night knowing we have these two companies behind our most important asset, our intellectual property (our data).” Here’s just a snapshot of recent data protection innovations:

  • Cloud-native data protection: Modern data protection needs to be agile. Commvault’s cloud-delivered solution (Metallic) offers enterprise-grade data protection with the simplicity of SaaS. Built leveraging the durability and scale of Azure, Commvault delivers award-winning protection and security across data estates without the need for infrastructure expenses, costly overhead, or routine maintenance and upgrades. And as the ONLY data protection provider to achieve FedRAMP High In Process – In PMO Review status, Commvault offers a hardened, multi-layered approach to securing data from advanced threats.
  • Comprehensive Microsoft Cloud coverage: Say goodbye to point solutions. Commvault’s deep breadth of Microsoft Cloud workload coverage offers single-solution protection of your most critical environments. From the data center to the edge, we’re constantly evolving, adding support for new and emerging workloads. This provides customers with simplicity and ease of use – knowing critical data in Microsoft 365 (including GCC High environments), Dynamics 365 (including the Power Platform), and Microsoft Azure (including new Azure PaaS workloads such as ComosDB, MariaDB, SQL, and more) is safe, compliant, and recoverable from a single source.
  • Improved security and response: Data protection should start sooner. Commvault has made significant investments in delivering proactive cybersecurity capabilities that defend data, detect threats, and minimize attacks to reduce the risk of compromised data. Building upon this, we announced new bi-directional integrations with Microsoft Sentinel earlier this summer. This integration increases visibility, automates countermeasures, and accelerates response between systems to amplify cyber response and bring IT and Security teams together. It builds upon our unique data security capabilities, such as ThreatWise™, our patented early warning system that surfaces stealthy and advanced cyber threats in production – before data is compromised.

Leveraging New Microsoft 365 APIs

Announced at this week’s Inspire event are new Syntex innovations in support of Microsoft 365. Among those announcements was Microsoft 365 Backup, which provides highly performant recovery capabilities for large data restores. We’re excited to be an early member of the associated Partner Program and integrate these capabilities into our award-winning Metallic offering, as we help businesses of every size to keep their critical data safe, compliant, and recoverable from threats.

We look forward to sharing more details in the weeks to come as we leverage these new capabilities to further enhance Commvault’s Microsoft 365 Backup data protection solution. In the meantime:

  • Reach us at microsoft@commvault.com
  • Join us for an exclusive look into the findings of the ESG Study on July 26th: “Is Your Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Leading to Risky Business?”—register here
  • Download the complete ESG Study today

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Cyberthreats have proved to be a perpetual game of cat and mouse. Security teams, on one hand, aim to stay one step ahead, leveling up defenses to uncover and ward off new forms of cyber threats. At the same time, bad actors are constantly evolving to employ new techniques that exploit vulnerabilities and outmaneuver even the most sophisticated of security stacks. And stealth is the name of the game… New forms of attack, including Living Off the Land techniques, are stealthy and once again upping the ante and challenging business’ ability to detect threats – before data is compromised.

Constant Innovation Fuels Cyberthreats

For security teams, they already have their work cut out. From the cloud to the data center, data lives in more places than ever before – and it all needs protecting. That’s a lot of ground to cover, and one weak link introduces risk and potential avenues for attackers to exploit. If that wasn’t challenging enough, cyberthreats also don’t exactly sit still. They’re constantly innovating with new tools and techniques that silently bypass security tooling and compromise systems, applications, and environments. Take for instance Locker malware, which was particularly popular in the late 2000s. Locker disrupted computer access by injecting malicious code to lock users out. Access was only regained when victims paid a ransom. Antivirus tools eventually caught up and Locker became too bulky and slow for a good success rate of attacks. Threat actors recognized this and flipped the script, favoring a new form of stealth technique that was quieter, faster, and could bypass recently improved antivirus technology – file encryption.

Advanced, Silent Techniques Threaten Data

Today, cyberthreats once again look different. Silent attacks, which can remain hidden in systems for extended periods of time, pose a unique risk to businesses. Take Living Off the Land techniques that leverage signed binaries (LOLBins), scripts (LOLScripts), and libraries for example. This method, recently deployed by the Volt Typhoon hacking group, is particularly novel and hard to decipher. It doesn’t use conventional malware files but leverages conventional utilities, executables, and repositories to execute its attack. Traditional security tools based on signatures and traffic analysis cannot detect stealth techniques such as LOLBins used by the Volt Typhoon group, as legitimate tools/information camouflage malicious activity to blend in and bypass even the most advanced security defenses. Once more, bad actors have moved the goal posts, leveraging new, stealthy schemas that go undetected and compromise data unbeknownst to their victims.

New Threats Require New Thinking

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As advanced stealth and persistent techniques become mainstream, defending data from these attacks must also be reimagined to keep pace. Just as bad actors can cloak themselves when employing stealth techniques, defending data against these threats can also employ similar tactics. The use of modern cyber deception can alter the playing field, introducing highly effective decoys masked as real resources and assets, in turn, exposing threats lurking (or in this case, disguised and legitimate utilities) in your network. ThreatWise™, Commvault’s patented early warning system, offers next-generation detection capabilities to surface zero-day and unknown cyberthreats – including recent LOLBins methods. Using look-a-like authentic decoys, ThreatWise™ actively defends data by obfuscating the attack surface, tricking bad actors into engaging with false resources during recon, discovery, and lateral movement. This eliminates blindspots by exposing internal and external threat actors that silently breach perimeter defenses, alerting stakeholders before its time to recover and joining IT and Security Teams for more effective incident response.

For more information on ThreatWise™, please visit https://www.commvault.com/platform/products/threatwise

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I’m proud to share our 2023 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, an overview of all the incredible work our Vaulters are doing every day to innovate within our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.  

Over the past year, we continued to address barriers and biases in our workforce by hiring, mentoring, and empowering employees from underrepresented groups. Additionally, in listening to our employees, we wholeheartedly embraced a flexible, hybrid workstyle. We celebrated how our employees play a critical role in moving forward our ESG initiatives. During the year, they rallied to support local and global causes, including raising money in response to the tragic earthquake in Turkey and the Crisis in Ukraine. And they continue to innovate solutions to help customers monitor and reduce their energy usage and carbon emissions, as well as support their compliance and regulatory requirements.  

Our core values – we connect, we inspire, we care, and we deliver – empower us to drive company performance in a way that serves the planet, our people, and our communities in a responsible, sustainable, and ethical manner. Whether helping our customers and partners manage their data more sustainably, supporting the development and inclusion of our global workforce, or giving back to our communities, we continue to prioritize our stakeholders and treat long-term sustainability as a non-negotiable requirement of doing business.

“At Commvault, our foundation is built on trust. Our customers trust that we will protect their data in this difficult world. Our employees trust that we will lead them to new opportunities. Our investors trust us to responsibly manage their investment, which we proudly do. And trust is at the heart of our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives, where we have made significant strides this past year.”

– Sanjay Mirchandani
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director | Commvault   

  

We remain committed to driving change where we can generate the most influence – in our direct operations, for our partners and customers, with our employees, and within our communities. 

I hope you enjoy learning more about our efforts in this year’s report!

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Here at Commvault, we’re passionate about investing in and mentoring the next generation of leaders. This is why we started the new year by partnering with Break Through Tech to sponsor internships through their Sprinternship™ program in January.

Break Through Tech works to propel women and non-binary students into computing degrees and tech careers with a vision to achieve gender equality in tech. Their Sprinternship program is offered in three-week sessions during academic recess and has reached thousands of students, with an emphasis on welcoming Black, Latina, low-income, first-generation college students, and non-binary students to launch their tech careers.

Throughout their time with us, the “Sprinterns” tackled real business challenges and were engaged in our day-to-day operations and company culture while demonstrating their skills. We were proud to sponsor two Sprinternship Programs in January: HR Data Analytics and UX Development, with each program having a unique challenge project.

In partnership with my colleague Scott Bice, Global Head of HR Operations and Services, we oversaw the HR Data Analytics Sprinternship. This opportunity allowed students to work with our Human Resources team to develop an HR scorecard, test data in the data warehouse, innovate new and creative ways to display data and tell a story, and provide input and design on KPIs. Throughout the project, they learned how the engagement level of new hires corresponds to their onboarding experience, team experience, and time with managers. In just three weeks, students learned how to use tools like the data cube, work with Power BI, utilize Excel pivot tables to analyze the data, and tell the story of new hire engagement.

 “The Sprinternship program was truly a sprint; a compact three-week internship focused on challenging each other, mentoring for success in the workplace, and providing experiences in the technology space,” said Scott Bice, “The Sprinterns went above and beyond to embrace the opportunity, drive change, and extract value from the experience, which made it a win-win!”

The UX Development Sprinternship enabled students to develop example product pages within our design system site using our React components. Throughout their three weeks, they also acquainted themselves with our suite of products and design system, referencing existing example pages within our design system site codebase and contributing to the design system codebase. These Sprinterns worked as UX developers and gained a newfound understanding of UX and the vital role it plays in STEM. The experience certainly piqued interest in front-end in those that may not have considered a career in this field. And get this – one of our UX Sprinterns even contributed to our code base, which was published on our design system site!

It’s exciting to see the progress these students make within the three-week program. They not only learn from us, but we learned from them as well! Parisa Bazl, Director of User Experience, said, “The Sprinternship program was helpful for us because not only did it make us really create and polish an efficient onboarding process because of its timeframe, but it also offered valuable management experience to our team members.”

Our Chief People Officer Martha Delehanty was ecstatic about the opportunity to get involved and support Break Through Tech’s mission, saying, “Break Through Tech’s Sprinternship program is fueling next-gen-tech talent around the country! This has been a fantastic way for companies like Commvault to invest in future talent AND get fantastic support to drive current business challenges, a win-win! Shout out to all our amazing Sprinternship participants, as well as Judy Spitz, Founder & Executive Director of Break Through Tech, for her pioneering spirit and leadership.”

We continue to always inspire our next generation of leaders and give them an exceptional experience during their time with us – however long that may be. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Break Through Tech. These opportunities make me excited about our future as we continue to bridge the gap of gender equality in technology and incorporate diverse viewpoints into how we deliver for our customers and partners!

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Cyberthreats – like ransomware – are global businesses staffed by malicious actors, state-sponsored hackers, and criminal syndicates looking to exploit any weakness. And business is booming considering that approximately 66% of businesses have experienced a cyberattack over the past 12 months. Yet, while many companies boast ransomware panaceas and their unique ability to solve these security problems, it is not so cut and dry.

The answer is not more bolt on tools which just adds more security gaps and ultimately brings more risk to your business.

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For starters, today’s environments are complex. Not only is your organization hybrid and global, but you’re managing more data, applications, and technologies strewn across on-premises systems, cloud services, SaaS environments and more. And it all needs protecting. Even software vendors themselves have struggled to keep pace with sprawling data estates, adding point and niche solutions to ramp up workload support and technical capabilities to patch holes and gaps in their own portfolio. This just creates complexity you don’t want or need. After all, the more disparate, bolt-on tools you use to manage your data protection strategy and your security protocols, the wider the gap and greater the vulnerabilities for attackers to exploit.

Next, in the face of ransomware and other zero-day attacks, the lines between IT and Security are not only blurring but converging.  While traditional security approaches and applications are essential for any business, attacks are faster, stealthier, and more evasive than ever before. Relying on perimeter defenses alone is not sufficient in the face of this ever-evolving threat landscape. Companies need to embrace a unified, multi-layered approach. One where security and data protection interweave for comprehensive ransomware protection. This includes preventive and proactive measures to actively defend data (not just recover it) and to stay resilient from advanced threats and data loss threats. This will help you stay ahead of modern cyber threats, further harden defenses, and expedite response when facing a cyber incident.

And last, but not least, IT and Security teams are overburdened with the complex task of managing multiple security tools and their intricate integrations. This is especially challenging because teams often live in separate systems, adhere to their own processes, and behold unique responsibilities to the business. Removing barriers between these departments can also be challenging due to organizational priorities and limited resources.  In addition to keeping data secure, compliant, and recoverable, next-generation data protection can help unify these functions. Proactive threat detection and security system integrations equip businesses with new tools to surface attacks faster and organically connect disparate workflows, people and systems. Not only does this help improve security postures but it also increases visibility, coordination, and the response between departments to minimize the blast radius and accelerate response and recovery operations.

In short, an integrated platform is essential for shielding companies from ransomware attacks and other cyberthreats. It simplifies the management process so IT and security teams can concentrate on more strategic initiatives while still guaranteeing maximum protection against malicious actors. By leveraging such a platform, organizations can stay ahead of modern cyberthreats to anticipate and reduce risk, minimize exposure, and ensure your organization’s continuity.

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Here are three best practices your organization should consider to design a robust disaster recovery plan that takes full advantage of what the cloud enables.

1. Clearly Define RPO and RTO for your disaster recovery plan

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are essential metrics to be defined when developing a disaster recovery plan.

  • RPO is the allowable period of time that can pass during a disaster event until the amount of data lost exceeds the maximum threshold that has been set in an organization’s business continuity plan.
  • RTO encompasses the entirety of an organization’s business operations and applications. It is defined as the maximum period of time an organization can remain functional during downtime caused by a disaster event before operations are either substantially restricted or taken offline altogether.

Defining RTO and RPO helps organizations decide on a clear and explicit disaster recovery plan framework to ensure their recovery goals are met during a disaster event. Update them periodically, especially if your organization has migrated to the cloud in place of legacy on-prem backup solutions.

(You can read more about RTO and RPOhere)

2. Routinely test your cloud disaster recovery plan — and update it accordingly

An unproven disaster recovery plan is one prone for potential failure.

It’s best to identify potential issues in your recovery plan on your own terms instead of finding out the hard way during a disaster event. Routinely test your disaster recovery plan to expose any shortcomings and see if any updates are required to reflect any changes and evolution in your organization’s IT needs.

3. Leverage cloud-native backup for cloud disaster recovery

The sheer amount of data being used on a daily basis has grown exponentially just within the last few years alone — a major reason why the majority of businesses have migrated to the cloud to leverage its scale and elasticity.

If your organization has moved its data and workloads to the cloud, it only makes sense to use a cloud-native backup solution that has been created specifically for the cloud. Once the cloud backup solution has been deployed, data can be automatically backed up and stored in the cloud. That way, if the data is lost or compromised due to an incident (such as a physical disaster or a ransomware attack), the most recent backup copy can be recovered and restored from any location.

However, in order for cloud backup to provide the necessary aspects needed to facilitate disaster recovery, it must provide two key capabilities:

  • Ensure the data backups are stored securely

Malicious threats like ransomware don’t just target an organization’s current data — they typically go after the backups as well. If they can steal both the primary and backup data, you are essentially at the mercy of criminals while facing potentially devastating data loss and downtime. This is precisely why backup copies should be securely stored in an air-gap manner isolated from primary accounts.

  • Rapidly restore the specific mission-critical data and workloads required to maintain business continuity

Some data is more important than other data, especially in terms of keeping operations afloat. If a disaster event threatens your data and processes, you likely don’t have time to wait for every last bit of data to be restored during recovery. You need a way to quickly prioritize and restore the mission-critical data required to keep your processes and end users online.

Secure Cloud Backup and Rapid Data Recovery with Clumio

Built natively in the cloud, Clumio provides faster disaster recovery while ensuring backup copies are kept safe by storing them in an encrypted, air-gapped environment outside of an organization’s primary account.

When data restoration is needed, Clumio’s granular and flexible recovery capabilities can identify, recover, and rapidly restore the specific mission-critical data and applications needed to maintain business continuity while a full recovery completes.

And it’s all done within an intuitive interface packed with features that provides everything from global search, browse capabilities, and ransomware risk analysis to enhanced compliance visibility.

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Data is everywhere, so are cyber threats. Truly proactive defense means re-thinking conventional approaches to data protection, beyond just post-incident recovery. Data protection should (and must) start before data is compromised – with expansive capabilities that can anticipate, see, and react to threats, before its time to recover.

Mentionable facts:

  1. Teams can’t keep up: Over half of organizations only investigate between 1 and 10 alerts per day.
  2. Attacks are going unnoticed: 227 days is the average time it takes for security teams to identify and contain a data breach.
  3. Security and IT share the load: 80% of respondents reported that their cybersecurity and IT teams share the responsibility of protecting data.

ThreatWise™, from Commvault, advances data protection with unique early warning ransomware protection that surface zero-day, advanced, and unknown threats before data impact.

Leveraging patented cyber deception technology, it delivers advanced detection measures to intelligently safeguard data by identifying stealthy cyber threats in production. With advanced automation built-in, ThreatWise™ seamlessly enriches data protection strategies, connects IT and Security teams, and reduces cognitive load for admins and users.

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Automated Decoys

To shield business data and systems from malicious intent and activity, ThreatWise™ blankets tripwires across on-prem, multi-cloud, and SaaS instances. Off-the-shelf, preconfigured decoys or threat sensors that replicate real network assets (such as critical workloads, IT/OT assets, etc…) rapidly cover surface areas and spot threats along the path to your data. This includes the critical moments of recon, discovery, and lateral movement – critical moments where detection provides material impact on containing a breach. From the start of an attack, data protection stakeholders can foresee malicious activity traversing environments and targeting data. ThreatWise can even coat backup infrastructure themselves, hiding these environments from threats directly aiming to neutralize backup and recovery utilities. These preconfigured decoys include baked-in recommendations, helping automate the configuration process and offering user setting recommendations and templates. This removes any expertise needed for administrators to set up decoys, offering high-fidelity fake assets that look (and behave) like real assets at the flick of a switch. 

Automated Configuration

Unlike honeypot technology, ThreatWise™ employs a lightweight and highly scalable architecture. This enables users to quickly blanket environments with hundreds or thousands of fake assets to rapidly harden data estates, mask data, and muddle bad actor attempts. But how do I know what preconfigured decoys to use for my unique environment? The ThreatWise™ Advisor intelligently connects backup environments and decoys to reduce cognitive load for users. By assessing data that’s actively being protected within Commvault backup environments, ThreatWise™ Advisor logically recommends decoy types (and their placement) to further safeguard critical workloads. By connecting the dots between backups and cyber deception users can intelligently blend decoys into the existing environments without any deception or security expertise to optimize early warning detection and lead threat actors down a rabbit hole, away from their targets (your data).

Automated Alerts

When it comes to cyber events, IT teams must seamlessly integrate with their Security counterparts. Minutes matter and visibility, telemetry, and coordination are paramount for proper and effective response. Through seamless integration with existing security stacks, ThreatWise™ automatically circulates urgent event data to key stakeholders and security teams without human intervention. And because decoys are only visible to bad actors, notifications are clear and precise, eliminating false positives. This automation amplifies Commvault’s threat detection capabilities by removing silos and prioritizing data itself, connecting IT and Security teams to streamline operations without burden. This enables organizations of every size to flag latent threats earlier and respond faster. The result? Improved observability and accelerated response to minimize impact and mitigate loss— for less risk, less recoveries, less downtime.

For more information on ThreatWise and our new Advisor capabilities, please visit the following page, or watch this On-demand Webinar on ThreatWise: Early Warning Data Protection and Its Role in Cyber Response.

References

1. WatchTower, SIEMs are Great, But They’re Also a Pain, 2022. – 2. IBM and Ponemon Institute, Cost of a Data Breach 2022, July 2022. – 3. TechTarget Inc., ESG Research Commissioned by Commvault, September 2022

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I can’t imagine a better way to head into our new, upcoming partner program year than to take some time to recognize and thank the Americas partners that are at the heart of everything we do at Commvault.

Our ecosystem is full of exceptional partners who regularly go beyond in delivering services and solutions that make real world differences in solving some of the biggest challenges in IT like securing, protecting, defending, and recovering data and applications. Earlier today at our invitation-only Partner Summit, we had the opportunity to take it one step further with the unveiling of Commvault’s inaugural 2023 Americas Partners of the Year awards.

The awards presented at this event celebrate the accomplishments of partners who have invested their time and trust into Commvault’s Partner Advantage Program and its ability to provide reliable, innovative, and secure data protection solutions that protect their customers’ business critical data.

The top prize and bragging rights for the overall award for Americas Partner of the Year for 2023 goes to CDW, which saw a huge demand for SaaS solutions this past year and an even bigger acceleration of customer adoption of Commvault’s SaaS technologies.

Marking another win for CDW, CDW Canada was named Canada Partner of the Year for its impressive year-on-year growth, dedication to being a truly collaborative partner, and ability to grow our long list of joint customers.

On the Commvault and Metallic SaaS front, Verinext saw outstanding growth, taking home the Managed Services Partner of the Year award for being the fastest growing Metallic SaaS managed service provider of 2023. And Insight was named winner in the SaaS market, too, taking home the award for Commvault SaaS Partner of the Year for its consistent growth and remarkable performance that outshined its competition, including the onboarding of 125+ new, joint customers.

The categories for this year’s awards also centered around geography and vertical focus. Congratulations are in order for:

  • Ahead, Technical Partner of the Year
  • Carahsoft, Distribution Partner of the Year
  • Data Pivot Technologies, Americas East Regional Partner of the Year
  • Eagle Technologies, Americas West Regional Partner of the Year
  • Hitachi Vantara, Latin America Partner of the Year
  • Kelyn Technologies, Fed Partner of the Year
  • SHI, SLED Partner of the Year

This year’s award winners have adopted best practices for protecting customer data and security while providing valuable feedback on continuously enhancing the Commvault platform. This recognition serves as a testament to these partners’ hard work and dedication in providing excellent services with secure SaaS solutions through Commvault’s Partner Advantage Program.

Commvault is proud to recognize those who have risen above expectations within our Americas Region. These exceptional partners exemplify what it means to be part of an innovative team dedicated to helping customers protect their data while maintaining exacting standards for quality service delivery. We look forward to continuing our mission together with our valued partners as we strive towards excellence within our field.

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Here at Commvault, we celebrate our diverse Vaulter community and honor the history of those who came before us.

This Monday is Juneteenth, a day which honors the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. We’re proud to observe the Juneteenth holiday on Monday, June 19, to commemorate history and celebrate African American culture.

Although Juneteenth is celebrated in the United States, our efforts to create awareness and have conversations on topics close to our hearts remain a key part of our global culture and core values.

This past February, I was joined by board member, Shane Sanders for a Courageous Conversation webinar panel hosted by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team and Multi-Culture Employee Resource Group (ERG) to celebrate Black History Month. During our conversation, he shared his perspectives on how the theme of “equity in action” has impacted him as a Black man and the social cost of not embracing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

At Commvault, we are committed to furthering our DEI and belonging efforts, in partnership with our incredible ERGs, to create opportunities to drive awareness, have open conversations, and encourage reflection.

I encourage you to take a moment today to reflect, listen, and inspire!

To learn more about our DEI efforts at Commvault, click here.

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In the world of big data, organizations are constantly looking for ways to store, process, and analyze vast amounts of information. Two common solutions for handling big data are data lakes and data warehouses. While they may seem similar at first glance, these two data storage paradigms serve different purposes and have distinct characteristics.

What are Data Lakes and Data Warehouses?

Data Lakes

A data lake is a large storage repository that can hold raw, unprocessed data in its native format. Data lakes can store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, which makes them highly versatile. They are designed to be highly scalable, accommodating the exponential growth of data. Data lakes allow for real-time data ingestion and are ideal for organizations that need to store and analyze large volumes of diverse data types quickly.

Data Warehouses

A data warehouse, on the other hand, is a structured repository designed for storing, processing, and analyzing structured data. Data warehouses store data in a highly organized, schema-based manner, which makes it easy to query and generate insights. Data is typically cleaned, transformed, and aggregated before being loaded into a data warehouse. These systems are primarily used for business intelligence and analytical purposes, enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions.

Example Applications for Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Data Lake Applications
  • Sentiment Analysis: Data lakes can be used to store and analyze large volumes of unstructured data, such as social media posts and customer reviews. This data can then be processed using natural language processing and machine learning (ML) algorithms to determine customer sentiment towards a product or service.
  • IoT Data Processing: Data lakes are ideal for storing and processing massive amounts of data generated by IoT devices. The real-time ingestion capabilities of data lakes allow for the processing and analysis of streaming data, enabling organizations to monitor and optimize their IoT networks.
  • Data Storage for ML/AI Training: In the medical and biotech fields, data lakes can be used to store data from diverse sources, such as genetic sequences, patient records, and clinical trial results. Machine learning algorithms can be applied to this unstructured data to identify patterns or correlations, aiding in uses from the development of personalized treatments to predicting disease outbreaks. Furthermore, algorithms can analyze real-time data from medical devices to monitor patient health and alert caregivers to any significant changes (See IoT above).
Data Warehouse Applications
  • Sales Analytics: Data warehouses can be used to store and analyze sales data, allowing organizations to identify trends, track performance, and make data-driven decisions to improve sales strategies. The structured nature of data warehouses makes it easy to create sales reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
  • Customer Segmentation: By analyzing customer data stored in a data warehouse, organizations can segment their customer base and tailor marketing efforts to target specific demographics. Data warehouses can store structured customer data, such as purchase history and demographic information, enabling organizations to create detailed customer profiles.
Example Use from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

A great example of a company utilizing AWS services to build a data lake is FINRA. FINRA leverages AWS to store and analyze over 500 billion market events daily, enabling them to detect fraud and market manipulation.

FINRA’s data lake, built on AWS, processes and stores vast amounts of diverse data types, including trade data, order data, and reference data. By using Amazon S3, FINRA can store and manage their data cost-effectively and securely, while Amazon EMR and AWS Glue enable them to process and analyze the data to identify potential violations.

You can learn more about this use case by reading the AWS case study for FINRA.

Conclusion

Data lakes and data warehouses serve different purposes and are suited for different types of data storage and analysis. Understanding the differences between these two storage paradigms is essential for organizations.

Once you’ve determined which path is right for you, be sure to build data resilience into your strategy. Keep an eye out for my next blog, which discusses advanced techniques for data resilience in RDS data warehouses and S3 data lakes.

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The digital landscape is evolving. Cyberthreats have become more sophisticated, data estates are growing, and IT resources are shrinking. Today’s organizations need a more proactive approach to protecting their data in an ever-changing threat landscape. And while traditional data protection solutions may play a pivotal role in recovering post-attack, they are reactionary, narrowly focused, and no longer sufficient.

Cyberthreats today are designed to silently bypass perimeter defenses and inflict pain in ways that traditional backup and recovery solutions cannot combat. The threat of data exfiltration, theft, and damage is now more prevalent than ever and can be devastating to businesses if not addressed.

Proactive, Layered Data Protection

To address these cyber threats, organizations must look beyond conventional security tools and take steps to ensure data resiliency. This requires a proactive approach with layered protection, also known as defense in depth. It is the practice of implementing multiple tools and measures to protect against a wide range of threats. Each layer has a specific function, working in unison for multi-faceted protection for your environment. Commvault applies this very principle to data protection, uniquely delivering the right breadth of detection, security, and recovery capabilities to actively secure, defend, and recover data broadly across production and backup environments.

Layered protection that actively defends data and its recoverability across the industry’s
broadest set of workloads

Secure

Hardened, zero-trust, immutable architecture with built-in security controls to secure data, prevent unwanted access and data exposure, and drive compliance in the face of evolving cyber threats.

Defend

Patented early warning and in-depth monitoring to surface and neutralize zero-day and insider threats before they cause harm; containing breaches, limiting windows of exposure, and flagging malicious activity sooner to reduce recoveries.  

Recover

Proactive and reliable recoverability across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS workloads proven to reduce downtime, prevent reinfection, and accelerate response times for unrivaled business continuity.

Innovative Data Protection with New
Products and Services

We are pushing the boundaries of data protection in this modern world, and redefining how businesses of every size combat risk, minimize threats, secure entire data estates, and drive better business outcomes. We are setting a higher standard for customers’ security posture and delivering the best value in data protection. New products and features include:

  • Commvault Auto Recovery delivers complete cyber recovery and business continuity, both on-premises and in the cloud, providing secure, reliable, and near real-time cyber resiliency.
    • Recovery orchestration with one-click recovery of clean copies across workloads to production after validating and sanitizing recovery points.
    • Recovery validation to continuously validate backups, demonstrate recovery readiness, and reduce recovery testing complexities.
  • Commvault Cloud Command provides customers global visibility and actionable insights across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises through a SaaS-delivered unified platform. It enables standardization of security postures and simplifies data risk management to make optimal decisions for recovery readiness.
  • Commvault Risk Analysis identifies, categorizes, and classifies sensitive data such as personal, financial information, and intellectual property to prioritize security efforts and take action to reduce data exfiltration.
  • Commvault Threat Scan allows organizations to scan backup content to identify malware and files that have been encrypted, corrupted, or significantly changed to recover clean data and avoid file reinfection.
  • Security ecosystem expansion with bidirectional integrations with SIEM & SOAR platforms to meet compliance and improve your security posture by helping to align your response time through automatic actions.
  • Dynamic Credential Management integration with CyberArk to minimize the risk of stored credentials for workload protection on demand, allowing organizations to securely manage credentials within CyberArk rather than within the backup environment.
  • ThreatWise Advisor assesses backup environments and intelligently recommends decoy placement to further harden critical workloads and reduce the cognitive load for users.

Delivering a proactive and reliable recovery across the industry’s broadest workload coverage is proven to reduce downtime, thwart data loss, and accelerate response times. Businesses will benefit from our end-to-end insights and observability across the entire data protection lifecycle to anticipate risk, proactively minimize threats, control data (and its access), and drive more informed recovery outcomes.

Organizations of all sizes can feel confident that with the help of Commvault’s advanced data protection and recovery solutions, you can become the face of the next generation of data protection: Data, Secured. Data, Defended. Data, Recovered.

To learn more, use our buyer’s guide to map your current cyber security protection and recovery capabilities and determine how best to optimize your readiness plan across hybrid, cloud, or SaaS workload environments.

Watch our video on Data Protection Redefined as our mission is to secure, protect, and recover all your data with the world’s only unified data protection platform, which has the lowest TCO of any solution that even comes close.

Visit our web page to learn.

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As a leader in data protection and security, Commvault values its partnerships with industry leaders, including Dell Technologies. Together, we are committed to designing, integrating, and delivering innovative solutions that meet the needs of customers. An open and extensible ecosystem is essential for the 100,000+ organizations that rely on Commvault solutions. Sanjay Mirchandani, Commvault’s CEO, explains it simply, “Integration needs to be built-in, not bolted on.” This philosophy provides that Commvault’s solutions work seamlessly with other technologies.

The new integration between Commvault and PowerProtect Data Domain delivers immediate value for PowerProtect Data Domain customers with:

  • Simplified configuration through native API-based integration
  • Improved security posture
  • Customers can leverage existing data protection plans without creating new full backups

The integration of Commvault and PowerProtect Data Domain introduces a simplified native API-based integration. This new capability allows customers to seamlessly integrate with existing PowerProtect Data Domain systems without needing the BoostFS plug-in. This reduces complexity and significantly cuts down the time it takes for customers to begin protecting their data.

Commvault customers can continue to leverage their existing data protection policies and avoid having to create new full backups or worry about increased backup set sizes thanks to the new API-based integrations. Enabling this new capability is as simple as adding a new storage unit for Data Domain Boost with valid credentials in Commvault Command Center.

Historically, Commvault has supported PowerProtect Data Domain systems as repositories, but they had to be configured as Common Internet File System (CIFS) or Network File System (NFS). The new integration enhances the security for backups with native encryption and direct data transfers without mounting a CIFS or NFS file system on the appliance, reducing the attack surface for ransomware.

Customers that leverage Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) will also be able to natively leverage the new integrations. Providing a more secure environment where users can be confident that their data is safe from unauthorized access or manipulation.

Having a reliable and secure backup solutions is key when it comes to protecting your business’ data from cyber threats. We’re thrilled to be joining the Data Domain Boost ecosystem and continue to look for other opportunities to enhance this integration even further in the future. For organizations looking for a powerful combination of tools to protect their data, Commvault & Dell Technologies have the complete solution you need!

Make sure to subscribe to our blog for regular updates, as we’ll detail the integration process steps in the coming weeks. Sign up for our community forums to stay current on all the latest announcements, ask questions, and interact with our vibrant online community.

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Last week, we hosted our FY24 Global Company Kickoff – a time when our entire Vaulter community comes together to kick off the start of our fiscal year, hear from our leadership team on our strategy, and celebrate how we’re going to continue to win together!

Yet here’s the thing – winning together can only happen if we are able to support and show up for each other. We show up for each other in bigger moments, but also (just as importantly) in smaller moments each day. Here at Commvault we always have each other’s backs, and this type of culture defines who we are.

During our Kickoff event, we had the opportunity to hear from our Vaulters across the world on how they’ve felt supported at Commvault. These are the moments that matter!


As I listened to their perspective, I realized that all our efforts – from connecting, inspiring, caring, and delivering – are rooted in trust. The trust we’ve built with each other, the trust we’ve built through our relationships with our customers and partners, and the trust we’ve built through our outreach and support of the communities we live in.  

The foundation of trust is knowing that someone is going to show up for you. They have your back. So that’s why in FY24, we are recommitting to showing up for each other and continuing to strengthen the incredible foundation we’ve laid over the past 27 years.  

Here’s to an amazing FY24!

Check out your next opportunity by visiting our careers site here https://careers.commvault.com/us/en  

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