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Enhancing Cloud Resilience with Commvault's Cloud Rewind

In a world increasingly reliant on cloud infrastructure, companies face the pressing challenge of ensuring operational continuity, especially amid rising cyber threats. Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at an enterprise scale, has recently unveiled significant enhancements to its Cloud Rewind service, aimed at fortifying Microsoft Azure resource recovery. This advancement comes as businesses seek comprehensive solutions to restore not just data, but their entire cloud application infrastructure following outages or cyberattacks.

According to findings from Absolute Security's 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience report, over half of enterprises reported that it takes them more than 4.5 days to recover from cyber incidents. This significant downtime can disrupt business operations, erode customer trust, and ultimately affect the bottom line. Commvault’s Cloud Rewind addresses these concerns by providing robust tools for quick recovery and restoration.

One of the key enhancements is the tripling of Azure resource coverage. With the update, Cloud Rewind now protects 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types, broadening the safety net for organizations. It works by continuously discovering and mapping application dependencies, streamlining the recovery process, and orchestrating the restoration of important configurations and infrastructure from a consolidated platform. This evolution allows companies to focus on their core operations rather than navigating cumbersome recovery processes.

Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, SVP and Global Head of IT Infrastructure & Cloud at Allcargo Group, emphasizes the urgency of effective recovery solutions in logistics, stating, "In global logistics, every minute of downtime can disrupt supply chains and impact customer trust. Data is critical, but it needs the right cloud infrastructure to stay actionable. With Cloud Rewind, we don’t just recover files – we restore our operational environment in hours, ensuring our customers experience continuity without compromise."

Streamlining Recovery Processes

Additional benefits of Cloud Rewind include deeper integration into Commvault’s backup and recovery systems, merging application data with cloud configurations into a single, air-gapped recovery ecosystem. This consolidated approach allows teams to strategize and enact recovery plans without juggling multiple tools, saving time and reducing complexity.

Commvault has also introduced advanced policies that support dynamic protection at scale. This policy-based approach enables automatic enrollment of discovered resources across diverse cloud environments, enhancing protection protocols and ensuring that all vital resources are covered efficiently.

Pranay Ahlawat, Commvault’s Chief Technology and AI Officer, elaborates on the importance of cohesive recovery strategies, stating, "Modern applications depend on interconnected cloud services, infrastructure, and configurations that must be recovered together. Cloud Rewind assists organizations in recovering cloud applications through a unified experience in Commvault Cloud, ultimately boosting customer confidence in recovery capabilities."

Proactive Readiness and Future Prospects

One vital feature is the ability to validate recovery readiness through application recovery simulations in isolated, air-gapped environments. This proactive capability allows organizations to identify vulnerabilities before a real incident occurs, preparing them for seamless recovery when they need it most. Melinda Marks, Senior Research Director and Chief Analyst at Omdia, points out that many organizations realize their recovery plans are lacking only after experiencing incidents, highlighting the critical need for effective, comprehensive solutions.

Commvault's Cloud Rewind service is available now as an add-on workload within Commvault Cloud, targeting cloud application protection and app-centric recovery. The expanded Azure protection is anticipated to be available in the coming months, with flexible pricing that's based on the protected cloud resources.

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, Commvault is committed to providing organizations with the tools required not just for data recovery, but for holistic business continuity, empowering them to operate fearlessly in an increasingly complex cyber environment.