Recover confidently with clean recovery
Commvault Cloud unifies cyber recovery and recovery readiness under one control plane — immutable, air-gapped, audit-ready, with cleanroom testing and runbooks for validated recovery.
Executive Summary
Recover confidently with clean recovery
Ransomware targets backups. Unify protection, cleanroom testing, and runbooks under one control plane to help meet RPO/RTO and produce audit-ready evidence.
63%
Of organizations are unable to recover from a site-wide crisis because they lack alterative infrastructure options.
The Challenge
Recovery confidence breaks under pressure
Hybrid sprawl, tool sprawl, and ransomware targeting backups shift success from backup completion to clean recovery, RPO/RTO outcomes, and audit-ready evidence.
Tool sprawl creates blind spots
Different tools for VMs, cloud, endpoints, and SaaS drive inconsistent policies, unclear dependencies, and recovery surprises that slow response across hybrid estates.
Backups are a target
Ransomware increasingly targets backup infrastructure, so copies alone aren’t the finish line—teams need immutable and air-gapped patterns aligned to cyber recovery requirements.
Clean recovery is uncertain
The failure mode is confidence: what’s clean, what to restore first, and how to avoid reinfection when returning data and systems to production.
Recovery is multi-system sequencing
Recovery is not a single restore. Coordinating dependencies across apps, infrastructure, and data layers adds manual steps and handoffs when time and accuracy matter.
Readiness must be provable
Boards, regulators, and auditors want evidence—not optimism. Recovery readiness must be testable, reportable, and repeatable with results aligned to RPO/RTO.
Compliance pressure is rising
Regulatory drivers increase scrutiny on recoverability, validation, and timelines—raising expectations for governed recovery capabilities, regular testing, and a documented resilience posture.
The Solution
Recover confidently across hybrid complexity
Commvault Cloud unifies protection with cyber recovery readiness—immutable, air-gapped architecture, cleanroom testing, and runbooks—so teams have audit-ready evidence for RPO/RTO.
Unify protection under one control plane
Reduce tool sprawl with unified governance, RBAC, and policy consistency across VMs, cloud, endpoints, and SaaS—closing blind spots before incidents.
Validate clean recovery in isolation
Use cleanroom testing and validated recovery to confirm what’s clean, limit reinfection risk, and speed incident response decisions under ransomware pressure.
Orchestrate recovery with runbooks
Coordinate multi-system sequencing with orchestrated recovery runbooks aligned to impact tolerances, tracking RPO/RTO and MTTCR/MTCR for audit-ready recovery readiness.
Key Capabilities
One control plane for unified policy
Unify protection across hybrid environments with consistent policy, visibility, and governance—reducing tool sprawl and recovery surprises across on-prem, multi-cloud, and SaaS.
Air-gapped protection for recovery
Use immutable and air-gapped patterns aligned to cyber recovery requirements to safeguard recovery points from tampering and credential abuse during incidents.
Isolated validation before restore
Use cleanroom recovery environments for isolation, forensics, and cleanroom testing—validating recovery points and practices so teams can recover confidently under pressure.
Threat-informed clean restore decisions
Apply threat-informed recovery workflows to support clean restore decisions, improve recovery decision clarity, and reduce reinfection risk when returning workloads to production.
Orchestrated sequencing across systems
Orchestrate recovery with runbooks to coordinate dependencies across apps, infrastructure, and data layers—reducing manual steps and sequencing errors for tier-0 services.
Audit-ready recovery readiness reporting
Validate recovery readiness with evidence for operational and audit stakeholders, track results against RPO/RTO and MTTCR/MTCR, and maintain a measurable resilience posture.
Conclusion
Backups are necessary; clean recovery is the requirement. Unify governance, validate recovery in a cleanroom, and prove recovery readiness with audit-ready evidence.
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Get free trialFrequently Asked Questions
What workloads can you protect?
Commvault Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery protects diverse workloads across hybrid estates—VMs, containers/Kubernetes, databases, applications, endpoints, and unstructured files/objects. A unified control plane applies consistent policy, visibility, and recovery readiness across on-prem, cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
Clean recovery versus basic restore?
Restore brings data back. Commvault’s clean recovery goes further — prioritizing validated recovery points and threat-informed decisions to reduce reinfection risk and limit data reversion, connecting backup operations to cyber recovery outcomes when ransomware targets backup infrastructure.
Why use cleanroom testing?
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery validates recovery in isolation before systems return to production. Teams stage recoveries in a secure, on-demand environment, verify cleanliness, and capture outcomes for incident response and operational discipline — reducing recovery surprises and improving decision clarity under pressure.
How do immutable and air-gapped help?
Commvault Cloud uses immutable and air-gapped patterns to protect recovery points from tampering and credential abuse. Combined with encryption in transit/at rest and RBAC access governance, these security-first foundations strengthen recovery readiness when attackers target backup infrastructure and administrative paths.
What are orchestrated recovery runbooks?
Recovery is a multi-system sequence, not a single restore. Orchestrated recovery runbooks coordinate dependencies across apps, infrastructure, and data layers, reducing manual steps and handoffs. Workflows align execution to impact tolerances and map progress to RPO/RTO targets.
How do you prove audit-ready readiness?
Audit-ready recovery readiness requires evidence: what was tested, when it was tested, what succeeded/failed, and what changed. Track recovery performance against RPO/RTO and time-to-clean-recovery measures such as MTTCR/MTCR to support executive and regulator scrutiny.
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