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Commvault Shift event, the unveiling of the groundbreaking Commvault Cloud

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

In an exhilarating update from the SHIFT virtual event, the unveiling of the groundbreaking Commvault Cloud, infused with Metallic AI prowess, marked a milestone in cyber resilience technology. This pioneering platform is the culmination of Commvault’s entire suite of SaaS and software solutions, now available under one comprehensive ecosystem. Through an intuitive interface, users gain unparalleled visibility and command over their digital assets in one fell swoop.

Press release here

Imagine a world where cyber threats morph daily, presenting complex challenges for organizations desperate to safeguard their data and maintain uninterrupted operations. Recent statistics are sobering: ransomware attacks surged by staggering numbers in the early part of the year, The implications? A detrimental impact on financial stability, reputation, and business functionality.

Read more:  whitepaper on Proactive defense from tomorrow’s cyberthreats.

Commvault’s strategic innovation leapfrogs current IT and security measures by offering an elite cloud platform, exclusively constructed for robust cyber resilience in today’s mixed enterprise landscape. Welcome to the Commvault Cloud era.

Digging Deeper: The Essence of Commvault Cloud This novel creation isn’t merely a platform; it’s a sanctuary for cyber resilience. It’s precision-engineered to empower users to preemptively spot threats, recover pristine data, and slash threat response intervals—all while boasting the lowest total cost of ownership. It’s a veritable fortress that safeguards data across any workload, infrastructure, and geographical expanse.

Commvault Cloud unites data protection, security acumen, and recovery in a symphony of key capabilities:

  • AI-Driven Fortification: Harnessing the prowess of AI, Commvault Cloud safeguards hybrid infrastructures and enriches data understanding. In a smart alliance with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, it arms customers against cyber threats and delivers insightful natural language data summaries. Check out more here
  • Data Security Breakthroughs: The platform’s cleanroom recovery service is an industry trailblazer, offering users a pristine, quarantined environment to restore data untainted by malware. Add to that, fortified encryption, immutable backups, and stringent access controls—it’s a full-circle security upgrade.
  • Strategic Alliances: Commvault Cloud thrives on powerful partnerships spanning cloud service giants, leading AI innovators, and security specialists. The platform is agile, spanning major public clouds and securing ties with cybersecurity leaders like Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks, ensuring a vigilant, responsive shield against threats. See all the Integrations with supported technologies
  • Custom Bundles: Catering to diverse needs, Commvault Cloud rolls out Bronze Protection, Silver Recovery, Gold Intelligence, and the comprehensive Platinum Resilience—each bundle a carefully curated selection of features designed for every scale and scope. More info here

Why Embrace Commvault Cloud? Commvault Cloud isn’t just another entry in the cloud arena; it’s a revolution in hybrid enterprise solutions. Here’s why it stands out:

  • Empowered Cyber Resilience: Beyond just defensive barriers, Commvault Cloud embodies a proactive, comprehensive stance on cyber resilience, ensuring businesses not only withstand but thrive against cyber adversities.
  • Simplicity and Economy: The multi-faceted management of data security becomes effortless, as Commvault Cloud distills complex needs into a single, streamlined solution, slashing costs and reducing overhead.
  • Data Insight and Innovation: With AI at its core, Commvault Cloud isn’t just about defense—it’s about leveraging data for strategic insights, fostering informed decisions, and driving innovation.

Getting Started with Commvault Cloud Ready to elevate your cyber resilience? Commvault Cloud is primed for deployment. Choose from the pre-designed bundles or tailor a solution that aligns with your unique requirements. Explore the advantages with a no-strings-attached trial offer and experience the transformative capabilities of Commvault Cloud firsthand. Or Check out a demo today.

For an in-depth journey into Commvault Cloud’s potential, visit the official website or relive the SHIFT event insights. Discover testimonies from industry veterans and customers on how Commvault Cloud is redefining their approach to cyber resilience.

Commvault is on a mission: redefining cyber resilience in a landscape riddled with AI challenges and ransomware threats. Dive into the future of cybersecurity with Commvault Cloud. Interested in more details or the trial? Don’t hesitate to reach out and ignite your pathway to cutting-edge cyber defense.

 

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Commvault Launch Event – Accelerating Cyber Defense and Response with Next-Generation Data Protection

by Shawn Cannon
written by Shawn Cannon

On June 7th, Commvault held an online event called Accelerating Cyber Defense and Response with Next-Generation Data Protection. During this event, Commvault announced some exciting new products and updates. Here is what was announced.

Commvault ThreatWise (New Updates)

First, what is Commvault ThreatWise? The Commvault ThreatWise solution allows an organization to actively defend their data with fully-integrated cyber deception. This allows them to uncover, contain, and minimize threats the moment a ransomware attack begins.

The new addition is called ThreatWise Advisor. ThreatWise Advisor intelligently recommends sensor placement by continuously assessing workloads protected in backup environments and suggesting what decoys to configure (and where) to further safeguard these workloads.

Commvault Threat Scan (New)

The Commvault Threat Scan solution allows Operations teams can take control and defend their backup data by proactively identifying malware threats to avoid reinfection during recovery. Commvault Threat Scan analyzes backup data to find encrypted or corrupted files, ensuring users recover trusted versions of their data quickly.

This solution addresses the customer challenge of not having insight into malware & ransomware attacks at the early stages, such as when files are being encrypted or corrupted. These attacks can cause greater damage to a company – leading to longer recovery times.

Commvault Risk Analysis (New)

Commvault Risk Analysis helps organizations effortlessly identify and secure sensitive data across their entire infrastructure. They gain visibility into data risks, collaborate, and mitigate potential data breaches, all while saving costs through smart data management strategies.

This solution addresses the customer challenge of ITOps and SecOps teams not having an easy way to identify the classification of data, its age, or usefulness to the organization.

Commvault Auto Recovery (formally known as Disaster Recovery with New Updates)

Commvault Auto Recovery provides a single platform that can protect and securely recover applications. Auto Recovery provides customers the ability to protect all applications, not just mission critical apps, with secure verifiable recovery with the lowest TCO.

This solution addresses the customer challenge of needing a way to securely recover their applications when disaster or cyberattacks strike with minimal disruption to the business. Traditionally, this is done with expensive hardware that is cost prohibitive for all but large enterprises. Smaller customers must rely on incomplete offerings from one or multiple vendors and stitch together a complete offering.

Commvault Cloud Command (New)

The Commvault Cloud Command solution allows customers to manage their entire Commvault Data Protection estate for both on-prem and SaaS through a single comprehensive SaaS-based UI, including security and data protection health dashboarding.

This solution addresses the customer challenge of navigating a complex landscape of data protection tools and platforms, ranging from on-premises to SaaS-based solutions. This complexity can be difficult and costly.

Partner Integrations (new)

Commvault announced some new integrations as well, including the SOAR integration with Microsoft Sentinel.

Commvault SOAR integrations provide an enhanced security posture and improved collaboration between Backup and Security Operations teams. Alerts and audit events are sent to the SOAR platform, so SecOp engineers can swiftly respond to anomalies or evidence of compromise while leveraging orchestrated actions to reduce incident response time.

Plugin is available for all Commvault software and Metallic bundles.

Another new integration is with the CyberArk Indentity Security Platform.

Commvault’s integration with the CyberArk Identity Security Platform significantly reduces the risk of credential theft with best-in-class integration that segments the credential storage away from the backup environments. This integration helps organizations follow strong zero trust architecture practices, deploy rigorous lifecycle credential policies, and comply with the most stringent regulations.

Plugin is available for all Commvault software and Metallic bundles.

Final Thoughts

As a consultant that has experience in the cybersecurity field, having a solution to help protect your company data is very important. Commvault has pulled out all the stops by providing a comprehensive platform across their ecosystem. All these new and updated solutions in their platform address the challenges most companies face. I expect Commvault to continue to be the leader in this space and will continue to innovate with their platform.

For more information on all of these product announcements and updates, check out the on-demand version of the event.

https://discover.commvault.com/Event-Security-Launch-Data-Protected-Registration.html

The press release can be read here: https://ir.commvault.com/news-releases/news-release-details/commvault-redefines-data-protection-new-security-capabilities.

View what’s new in the Commvault Platform here: https://www.commvault.com/platform/whats-new

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Commvault Metallic® File & Object Archive

by Shawn Cannon
written by Shawn Cannon

Today I am going to be covering a solution brief on one of Commvault’s latest offerings, Metallic® File & Object Archive.

Who is Commvault and Metallic®?

Commvault introduced Metallic® in 2019, as it’s DMaaS portfolio – bringing the best of data protection to  the best of SaaS

History: https://metallic.io/why-metallic

Metallic® is part of the Commvault Intelligent Data Platform (the slide you have included in your blog) and provides SaaS delivered data protection, including:

  • Metallic® Backup-as-a-Service, offering protection for SaaS applications including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics, and Salesforce; protection for endpoints; and protection for hybrid cloud workloads including Virtual Machines, File Systems, Databases, and containers.
  • Metallic® eDiscovery, offering granular search and export capabilities for Office 365 and endpoint data to help satisfy regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Metallic® Recovery Reserve, built on Microsoft Azure and delivering secure and scalable cloud storage for your backups.

What is Metallic® File & Object Archive?

Metallic® File & Object Archive enables Storage Administrators and Archive Managers to manage important but rarely
used data at lower costs from a trusted and compliance-ready archive. Using archive modeling tools, actionable
data insights, flexible storage options and modern SaaS delivery, Metallic File & Object Archive delivers informed data
placement giving IT operations more granular control over costs and quality of service.

The volume of unstructured data continues to grow as well as the costs, complexity and risk of managing that data. To control these risks, organizations need to manage and store that data as efficiently as possible.

That is where Metallic® File & Object Archive comes in! It delivers informed data placement to manage storage costs and reducing compliance risk, all with a simple SaaS delivery!

4 Key Takeaways

  • Informed Data Placement
  • Actionable Insights
  • Trusted Archive
  • SaaS Simplicity

Informed Data Placement

Metallic® File & Object Archive will run an analysis on your data, providing you projections and cost/space savings. You can then use this information to determine what data to move to less expensive archive storage, based on the needs of the data. For example, you have purchase orders that are needed for compliance reasons but they are rarely accessed. These files can be sent to less expensive storage for archival.

Actionable Insights

Metallic® File & Object Archive allows you to model decisions, set policies and drive impact analysis based on data insights, such as file access time or size. Using this information you can automate lifecycle management, retaining the data you need and removing/retiring the data you don’t need.

Trusted Archive

Metallic® File & Object Archive is built on Commvault technology, the industry leader in backup and recovery solutions. This ensures your data remains safe, compliant and recoverable.

SaaS Simplicity

Metallic® File & Object Archive is cloud-based, meaning reduced management overhead, automatic updates and no Capex.

Here is an example dashboard showing what you will see once your NAS devices are connected.

A before and after snapshot is also provided. The purple line it what will be archived, the blue like is what will remain on disk.

This diagram depicts how the solution works. Your NAS devices and target storage are connected to a Metallic Gateway, which will analyze the data to give you projected costs and savings. After the analysis, the qualifying data will be archived to your target storage for long term retention. All the heavy lifting is done with policies, schedules, indexes and history, all provided in the SaaS solution.

Some Context

Thinking about data “backup”, remember that is all about making copies of data for availability needs (aka recovery after a data lost event). “Archive” exists to manage the old/inactive/historical data that may be needed in the future (i.e. Compliance).

Final Thoughts

Data is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Being able to manage and maintain this growth effectively is always going to be a challenge. As an organization, it is very important to know what is needed to remain on expensive disk (frequently accessed data) and what could be placed on a lower tier or less expensive disk. It is important to have a solution that can automate this as much as possible and this is why Metallic® File & Object Archive was created.

Additional Resources

Webpage:                                           https://metallic.io/file-object-archive

Press Release:                                   http://bit.ly/3R6beSS

Datasheet:                                          https://bit.ly/3b2vzbd

Animated Video:                              https://youtu.be/Lsx_4OA-P3M

Solution Brief:                                   https://bit.ly/3OFiKkx 

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. Commvault compensated me for my time but any opinions given are my own.

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Commvault and Oracle Partner to Deliver Metallic® Data Management as a Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Accelerate Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Adoption

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

Metallic + OCI Release

On June 29th, Commvault, a global enterprise leader in intelligent data services across on premises, cloud and SaaS environments, announced it has expanded its strategic partnership to include MetallicDMaaS to Oracle Cloud

As hybrid cloud solutions became critical for customers, in 2019 Commvault created a venture called Metallic – its first SaaS offering to better provide Data Management-as-aService (DMaas) across multi-cloud environment

As part of Commvault’s continued support for customer’s hybrid and multi cloud journeys Metallic’s industry-leading services will now also be offered on OCI and available in all commercials OCI regions globally and be available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace

OCI coupled with Metallic data management as a service (DMaaS) enables enterprise customers to protect and secure their data against threats, adhere to local data residency laws, and ease data management and recovery

Together, Metallic and OCI will deliver superior price-performance, built-in enhanced security, and simplified recovery and management for enterprise customers looking to accelerate their OCI transition and protect critical data assets in the cloud while maintaining complete flexibility across customer-managed storage or a fully managed Metallic data protection service.

Metallic’s data protection now spans Oracle Cloud VMware virtual machines, Oracle Database, Oracle bare metal servers, Oracle Containers for Kubernetes, and Oracle Linux and becomes available to over 400,000 Oracle enterprise customers looking to leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for protecting their mission critical data.

In addition to the offering with Oracle, Metallic also delivers Backup-as-a-Service and Data Management-as-a-Service solutions for Microsoft Azure and AWS.

  • Metallic is the only DMaaS solution to protect across Azure, AWS and now OCI

Special Points of Note:

  • Expanded partnership is part of Commvault’s continued support for customer’s hybrid and multi cloud journeys
  • Metallic is the only DMaaS solution to protect across AWS, Azure and OCI to help enterprises’ multi-cloud journey

Benefits include:

  • Speeds cloud adoption for backup copies, driving data to OCI
  • It helps to ease data mobility, make it simpler to customers to securely move VMs and apps to OCI
  • Provides seamless protection of OCI workloads to OCI – with management across full data estate
  • Secure Backup from Ransomware and Malware
  • Secure – Air-gapped ransomware protection with encryption built-in
  • Flexible – Meet long and short-term data retention needs with OCI Standard and OCI Infrequent storage tier backup targets for Metallic DMaaS
  • Simple – Purchase. Add. Apply. Single pane of glass management makes administration easy

Read more at Commvault

An Expanded Partnership for the Cloud Era with Metallic and OCI

Commvault and Oracle: a 25-year history of integration

Commvault has long supported Oracle customers protecting the crown jewels of their enterprises – their Oracle data. We have more than 3,000 joint customers, which is increasing every year, and the amount of Oracle data we are protecting has grown by more than 30% year over year.

More than 400,000 customers rely on Oracle today to run their businesses. As many of those companies are accelerating their own cloud adoption and migrating to OCI – they have a natural need for agile cloud solutions to protect along that journey.

As Oracle accelerated its own cloud business, bringing the power of OCI to its customer base, Commvault kept pace. In 2017, Commvault underscored our support for Oracle customers moving to OCI, through our Commvault Complete software. Two years later, we introduced Metallic SaaS – which has quickly grown to become the gold standard in data management as a service. With today’s news, Oracle customers who need all the benefits of a SaaS-delivered solution, can now harness the power of Metallic with OCI to protect their data on premises and in the cloud. We’re excited for this natural evolution of our partnership to meet customers where they are with the most innovative and flexible SaaS solutions in our industry.

Metallic Expands Multi-Cloud Data Management with Support for OCI

 

Cloud adoption is up, risks are up

We’ve all seen how cloud adoption is accelerating, along with a need for multi-cloud solutions, with 89% of companies reporting a multi-cloud strategy. (1)  Unfortunately, the timing of this cloud transformation comes at the same time as some unprecedented risks:

  • First, ransomware and new cyberattacks are quickly trending in the wrong direction. We’ve not only seen a massive spike in successful breaches, but also a growing sophistication in the nature of attacks.  We’ve heard the adage before, it’s not “if,” it’s “when” — creating new risk around data and system protection.
  • Second, constrained resources. Successful digital transformation takes new and unique skills, to drive change and accelerate to the cloud.  This complimented with the well-publicized skills gap leads many IT organizations hamstrung in an already do-more-with-less world.
  • And lastly, hybrid cloud data sprawl.  As companies drive to digital transformation faster than ever, business data is increasingly spread across every application, device, on-prem, and cloud environment. This multi-generational data sprawl is challenging to manage and safeguard, even more so now as hybrid cloud strategies take hold.

Commvault and Oracle Partner to Deliver Metallic® Data Management as a Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Accelerate Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Adoption 

By adding support for protecting OCI workloads and writing to OCI Storage, Metallic’s data protection now spans OCI VMs; Oracle Databases; and Oracle Container Engine. Additionally, Oracle Linux is available to over 400,000 Oracle enterprise customers and the more than 100,000 customers who have relied on Commvault technology and are looking to leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to protect their mission-critical data.

 

Check out the Metallic Resource Library

 

Datasheets

Metallic Backup for AWS

Metallic® Recovery Reserve™ for Metallic BaaS

Metallic Active Directory Backup

 

Infographics

Leave Ransomware Concerns Behind

Metallic Office 365 TCO Infographic

 

Solution Briefs

ActualTech Brief: The Imperative for Office 365 Data Protection and the Shared Responsibility Model

ActualTech Brief: The Imperative for Dynamics 365 Data Protection and the Shared Responsibility Model

ActualTech Brief: The Imperative for Salesforce Data Protection and the Shared Responsibility Model

 

This is a sponsored post. I did meet with a Commvault technical specialist on the above technology and believe in the technology personally.

 

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