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Confident Recovery Starts with Clean Data

Commvault Cloud unifies backup and clean recovery readiness across hybrid and multi-cloud — validate recovery points in a cleanroom and orchestrate runbooks aligned to impact tolerances.

  • 100,000+ customers worldwide

  • 14x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant

  • SOC 2, ISO, FedRAMP Certified

When backups become targets

Copies aren’t confidence

Ransomware targets backup infrastructure. Leaders must recover confidently with clean recovery, hit RPO/RTO, and show audit-ready evidence to executives and regulators.


Backups under active attack

Attackers go after recovery points and admin access. Without immutable, air-gapped patterns and access governance, recovery readiness becomes a security risk.


Hybrid tool sprawl blinds

Fragmented tools across VMs, cloud, endpoints, and SaaS drive inconsistent policy, blind spots, and unclear dependencies—slowing orchestrated recovery when minutes matter.


Proof beats optimism now

Auditors and boards want evidence: what was tested, when, results, and changes. If it isn’t tested, timed, and documented, it isn’t audit-ready.

From backup to cyber recovery

Ability to recover clean. Prove readiness.

Commvault Cloud unifies governed protection and cyber recovery readiness across hybrid estates—designed so teams can recover confidently with clean data, orchestrated runbooks, and audit-ready evidence.


Harden recovery points

Use immutable and air-gapped patterns, encryption in transit/at rest, and RBAC to help protect recovery points from tampering and credential abuse.


Unify control across hybrid

One unified control plane for policy, visibility, and governance across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS—reducing tool sprawl, blind spots, and recovery surprises.


Validate and document recovery

Cleanroom testing, validated recovery, and recovery readiness reporting can track RPO/RTO and MTTCR/MTCR—building evidence for boards, regulators, and auditors under pressure.

Key Capabilities

Recover confidently, prove readiness

Unify governed protection and cyber recovery across hybrid estates. Validate recovery points with cleanroom testing, orchestrated recovery runbooks, and audit-ready evidence.

01 Unified hybrid workload protection

Protect VMs, containers, databases, apps, endpoints, and unstructured data with one unified control plane designed to provide reacovery readiness across environments.

02 Unified governance and access

Standardize policy-driven schedules, retention, and RBAC self-service aligned to RPO/RTO and impact tolerances, reducing fragmentation and recovery surprises.

03 Immutable, air-gapped recovery points

Harden recovery points with immutable and air-gapped patterns, plus offsite copies, to reduce tampering and credential abuse during cyber recovery.

04 Cleanroom testing and validation

Use cleanroom testing to validate recovery points and practices, allowing for improvement of validated recovery confidence and reducing reinfection risk under ransomware pressure.

05 Orchestrated recovery with runbooks

Coordinate multi-system recovery with orchestrated recovery runbooks that help reduce manual steps and sequencing errors, aligned to minimum viability for services.

06 Audit-ready evidence and reporting

Build an audit-ready resilience posture with evidence: what was tested, when, outcomes, changes, plus RPO/RTO attainment and MTTCR/MTCR tracking.

Real teams. Proven recovery.

Organizations that recover with confidence

The Challenge

A fragmented data management environment slowed operations and drove high support costs — creating risk for an events business that cannot afford downtime.

The Solution

Unified data management with Commvault Cloud reduced tool sprawl, automated protection policies, and strengthened the disaster recovery mechanism across the hybrid environment.

80%

reduction in support services costs

Read full story about A fragmented data management environment slowed operations and drove high support costs — creating risk for an events business that cannot afford downtime.

The Challenge

Protecting 1.6 PB of largely unstructured, long-lived engineering data across on-premises and cloud environments — including Microsoft 365 and Azure — with minimal IT overhead.

The Solution

Commvault Cloud unified backup and recovery for on-premises, cloud, and SaaS workloads on a single platform eliminated their tool sprawl and delivered consistent RPO/RTO across environments.

90%

reduction in backup management time

4x

deduplication rate — with 4X cost savings

Read full story about Protecting 1.6 PB of largely unstructured, long-lived engineering data across on-premises and cloud environments — including Microsoft 365 and Azure — with minimal IT overhead.

The Challenge

Consolidating multiple inherited backup tools and adding SaaS protection for Microsoft 365 — while keeping data encrypted, sovereign, and available for a growing digital product business.

The Solution

Commvault Cloud unified on-premises backup with Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365, automating protection across 500 TB of VMs, 2,000 mailboxes, and 6,100 SharePoint sites.

35%

reduction in time spent managing backups

Up to €20,000

hardware cost reduction per year

Read full story about Consolidating multiple inherited backup tools and adding SaaS protection for Microsoft 365 — while keeping data encrypted, sovereign, and available for a growing digital product business.

Security-first rollout plan

Deploy unified protection fast—with clean recovery readiness built in from day one.

Move from assessment to audit-ready recovery readiness with cleanroom testing, runbooks, and governed access.


Assess scope and risk

Confirm tier-0/tier-1 services, impact tolerances, and RPO/RTO. Review encryption, RBAC, and current tool sprawl across hybrid environments.


Configure governance and protection

Deploy the unified control plane, set policy-driven schedules and retention, and establish immutable and air-gapped patterns for protected recovery points.


Validate recovery in cleanroom

Run parallel recovery tests in an isolated cleanroom. Validate recovery points, sequence dependencies with runbooks, and document results as operational evidence.


Go live and operationalize

Cut over prioritized workloads, monitor recoverability posture, and track RPO/RTO plus MTTCR/MTCR. Maintain audit-ready reporting for tests, changes, and outcomes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does unified protection cover?

Commvault Cloud unifies protection across VMs, containers/Kubernetes, databases, applications, endpoints, and unstructured files/objects—managed through a unified control plane. Designed to bring unified governance, encryption, and RBAC so policies map to RPO/RTO and recovery readiness across hybrid and multi-cloud estates.

How do you enable clean recovery?

Clean recovery starts with immutable and air-gapped patterns that help protect recovery points from tampering and credential abuse. Commvault adds validated recovery workflows and cleanroom testing so teams can recover confidently, reduce reinfection risk, and make faster decisions when ransomware targets backups.

How do we prove audit readiness?

Commvault supports an evidence-based resilience posture with audit-ready reporting patterns for recovery testing, results, and changes. Track operational metrics such as RPO/RTO attainment and time-to-clean-recovery measures like MTTCR/MTCR, so executives, regulators, and auditors see evidence—not optimism.

How is recovery sequenced and executed?

Recovery is a multi-system sequence, not a single restore. Commvault uses orchestrated recovery and runbooks to coordinate dependencies across applications, infrastructure, and data layers. This reduces manual steps and sequencing errors, aligning execution to impact tolerances and RPO/RTO targets.

How often should we test recovery?

Recovery readiness improves when testing becomes a program, not an annual event. Commvault Cleanroom Recovery supports this by enabling non-disruptive validation of recovery points and practices under realistic conditions — so teams can document outcomes as evidence and iterate runbooks based on what succeeded, failed, and changed.

Why not hyperscaler-native tools?

Hyperscaler-native tools often limit coverage to a single platform, increasing policy fragmentation across hybrid estates. Commvault provides a unified control plane to reduce tool sprawl and differentiates with clean recovery validation, cleanroom testing, and orchestrated recovery runbooks that support consistent recovery readiness.

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Datasheet

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