We announced a strengthened strategic partnership between Commvault and HPE – one grounded in a shared belief that data protection and cyber resilience needed to evolve alongside modern infrastructure.
And if you were in the room for Antonio Neri’s keynote or watched it online, you might remember Commvault being called out on stage.
At the time, it felt like a strong statement of intent.
Today, heading back to Las Vegas, it feels like something more:
Execution. Momentum. And a real opportunity to build modern, resilient IT for customers..
What’s changed in the past year
In the last twelve months, the conversations we’re having with customers have shifted – but so has the environment they’re operating in.
Yes, data is growing. Yes, AI is accelerating. And yes, you absolutely need to have a resilience plan for AI.
But what’s also changed is the nature of the risk.
We’re now entering what many are calling the age of frontier AI – with advanced models like Mythos fundamentally changing how quickly vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited.
You may have seen that in a recent Commvault announcement, we highlighted how these models are compressing what used to be weeks-long exploitation cycles into minutes, dramatically shrinking the window organizations have to respond or recover.
Attacks are becoming more automated, more autonomous, and more immediate.
Which means what you thought you knew might not apply anymore:
- That you’ll have time to patch before something is exploited
- That recovery can happen “after the fact”
- That backup is enough
That’s what’s really changed.
It’s why the conversations we’re having today – with customers, with partners, and across the industry – are less about if something happens and more about how quickly you can recover when it does.
And it’s also why the joint innovation with partners like HPE – bringing to market differentiated new solutions that solve real customer challenges and strengthen our cyber resilience portfolio – is so incredibly valuable.
Three areas where this partnership has evolved
If you step back and look at the past year of this partnership, I’d group our progress with HPE into three clear areas.
#1 – Deeper technical integration where it matters most
We’ve moved well beyond production and protection across storage infrastructure to run-time platforms. So not only do we enable simplified snapshot management and faster recovery across HPE storage technologies like HPE Alletra Storage MP or HPE StoreOnce, we don’t stop at the storage layer. A great example of that is agentless protection for virtual machines (VMs) managed through HPE Morpheus Software.
Virtualization is in a period of real disruption right now. Customers aren’t just evaluating alternatives – they’re actively migrating. And that introduces risk.
What we’ve focused on is helping to make sure protection doesn’t break and can remain consistent during (and after) those transitions.
Agentless protection adds another layer to simplify that – removing dependencies that can slow down or complicate migrations, while helping keep VMs protected across environments.
This level of integration up the stack means customers can accelerate their VM migration strategy confidently and on their own terms, translating to better operational agility, reduced risk, and greater cost-savings.
#2 – Stronger unified go-to-market alignment – and a more complete resilience solution for customers
The second shift has been in how we go to market together – and what we bring to customers as a unified solution stack.
A big part of that is the role of HPE Zerto Software from Commvault.
By integrating HPE Zerto more deeply into Commvault Cloud, we’ve strengthened our platform with continuous data protection and workload resiliency and mobility that enables customers to modernize platforms and rapidly recover workloads to keep their business running after operational disruptions.
And more recently, we introduced a game-changer with Commvault Flex built on HPE infrastructure, a full-stack solution built on:
- HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 high-performance, all-flash storage for accelerated recovery for object and file data
- HPE ProLiant Compute servers for secure, enterprise-grade computing
- And an industry-leading cyber resilience platform that’s flexible and scalable enough to take advantage of that performance.
Flex solves customers’ challenges in protecting data-intensive workloads like multi-petabyte data lakes that power AI and analytics applications. With Commvault Flex built on HPE technology, customers get an integrated solution that accelerates recovery, simplifies deployment, scales easily, and can help them meet their resilience objectives and recovery SLAs for the foundational data that powers their business.
One more area that’s really come into focus for us over the past year is GreenLake by HPE. As customers push harder into AI, one thing that becomes clear pretty quickly is how infrastructure is delivered and consumed matters just as much as what’s powering it under the hood. There’s a growing need for environments that can scale, adapt, and evolve alongside these AI workloads without adding more complexity. That’s where GreenLake becomes such an important part of the conversation. It’s not just a platform – it’s how many customers are starting to think about building AI-ready infrastructure and become an agentic enterprise. For us, that means doubling down on how Commvault shows up in that ecosystem, continuing to invest in tighter integration and an optimized experience. It’s an area we’re really excited about, and one where you’ll continue to see both teams pushing forward together.
#3 – Real customer outcomes validating the direction
The third area – and probably the most important – is what we’re seeing in customer environments.
We’re starting to see this architecture land in meaningful ways.
For example:
- A large European bank leveraged the combined Commvault and HPE solution to strengthen cyber resilience across mission-critical banking systems – while also supporting regulatory requirements like DORA compliance. What made the difference here was the combination of Commvault’s architectural advantages and tight integration with the high-performance HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000, enabling the customer to meet recovery objectives that other solutions couldn’t match.
- A major online gaming organization in South Africa took a slightly different path, focusing on availability and uptime for their platform. In this instance, integrating HPE Zerto into the broader Commvault offering enabled continuous replication and faster recovery, supporting a high-availability environment where even brief disruptions have business impact. The customer got a more complete resilience offering, delivered end-to-end by Commvault for a more streamlined procurement and support process.
Different use cases – but a common theme:
Customers aren’t just buying backup anymore. They’re investing in resilience as part of their production architecture.
Why hybrid infrastructure matters more than ever
If you zoom out, the pattern is clear.
AI workloads are amplifying everything. There’s more data, cycles are faster, and there’s less tolerance for disruption.
And increasingly, the limiting factor isn’t compute – it’s data: How quickly it can be accessed, how efficiently it can be moved, and how fast it can be recovered when something goes wrong.
That’s why platforms like the HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 are playing a bigger role in these conversations – high performance, scale-out storage that can scale to meet extreme capacity and throughput demands. And when it’s integrated in a solution like Commvault Flex, it creates something that’s increasingly important – a protection and recovery layer that can actually keep up with AI.
Looking ahead to HPE Discover
Heading into this year’s event, there’s a different energy.
A year ago, we were talking about what we could build together.
Now, we’re seeing:
- Deeper technical integration
- Clearer go-to-market alignment
- And real customer outcomes that validate the approach
There’s still a lot of work ahead. But it feels like we’re at one of those points where things start to really take off.
Because the reality is simple:
AI doesn’t wait.
And increasingly, neither can your recovery strategy.
If you’re going to be at HPE Discover 2026, I’d encourage you to stop by and take a look.
Have a conversation with our team at our booth. Take in a demo. Attend our breakout session. Or setup a meeting with our exec teams for a deeper dive.
I can’t wait to see you there – and to see what all this incredible momentum brings in the coming year.
