Commvault has announced the availability of Cloud Rewind on the Commvault Cloud platform, integrating cloud-native distributed application recovery and rebuild capabilities from the Appranix acquisition.
Cloud Rewind transforms and simplifies cloud cyber recoveries. It’s designed to quickly restore an organisation’s entire cloud application and data environment – including all the necessary cloud infrastructure configurations – in a highly automated way.
By combining data recovery – the sole focus of traditional data protection tools – with cloud-native application and infrastructure rebuild automation, Cloud Rewind helps customers get back to business within minutes after a cloud services outage or ransomware attack, akin to a “cloud time machine.”
Cloud Rewind introduces a set of capabilities designed to help businesses bounce back from cyber incidents:
- Reduce organisational risk with resource discovery: automatically identifies and catalogs all cloud components in use, offering full visibility into what assets need protection and recovery. So that nothing critical is missed in the recovery process, even in complex, multi-cloud environments.
- Reduce operational confusion and toil with app-centric dependency mapping: analyses and defines the intricate relationships between various cloud components. This feature accelerates the task of piecing these dependencies together after an incident, making the rebuild process much faster. So, when a system is restored, all connected resources and services are aligned, with little to no human involvement.
- Keep security teams in-sync with drift analysis: helps return restored systems to their correct state by identifying and correcting any deviations (or “drifts”) from the original configuration. This proactive capability keeps tabs so that restored systems are aligned with their secure and functional state after an incident.
- Automated cyber recovery testing with Recovery-as-Code: captures not only the data but also the full map of applications, infrastructure, and networking configurations. This means that systems can be restored with their complete operational blueprint intact, reducing guesswork for a thorough recovery.
- Avoid wasting cloud resources with on-demand cloud reconstruction: puts it all back together, helping customers swiftly rebuild both the data environment and its supporting infrastructure. This provides organisations with a secure and operational cloud environment, ready for immediate use following a disruption.
- Integrated application-centric cyber recovery and disaster recovery: Cloud Rewind integrates with Commvault Cloud data resilience capabilities to help organisations rapidly recover from short-term failures to debilitating cyber-attacks with a few clicks.
Complementing Commvault’s cloud-native rebuild technology is its new Cyber Resilience Dashboard, providing continuous ransomware readiness assessments that make it easy for organisations to understand where they have gaps in their resilience plans. It also delivers actionable insights to improve resilience and recovery readiness.