Commvault has announced the availability of Cloud Rewind on the Commvault Cloud platform. This unique offering, which integrates cloud-native distributed application recovery and rebuild capabilities from the Appranix acquisition, provides cloud-enabled organizations with a secret weapon to transform their cyber resilience capabilities.
Today, when organizations suffer an attack, restoring data is only half the battle. The really laborious task is to restore the distributed applications in the cloud, which are used to run and feed that data.
A typical business organization may use up to 3,711 cloud applications spanning various services such as finance, human resources, and operations. After an attack, organizations are often unable to resume operations as usual until many of those applications are rebuilt step by step, systematically and slowly. Most businesses say it takes more than a week to get back to normal, according to the latest Commvault study. That’s too long. But, with Cloud Rewind, all that is changing.
Cloud Rewind introduces an advanced set of unique capabilities designed to help businesses recover from cyber incidents quickly
Cloud Rewind offers a truly unique approach that transforms and simplifies cyber recovery in the cloud. It is designed to quickly restore an organization’s entire cloud data and application environment – including all necessary cloud infrastructure configurations – in a highly automated manner. By combining data recovery – the sole purpose of traditional data protection tools – with automating the reconstruction of cloud-native applications and infrastructure, Cloud Rewind helps customers get back up and running within minutes after an outage of cloud services or a ransomware attack, something like a “cloud time machine.”
Advanced Cloud Rewind Capabilities
Cloud Rewind introduces an advanced set of unique capabilities designed to help businesses recover from cyber incidents with exceptional speed and efficiency.
· Reduce organizational risk with resource identification: Automatically identifies and catalogs all cloud components in use, offering complete visibility of assets that need protection and recovery. This way, nothing critical is missed in the recovery process, even in complex multi-cloud environments.
· Reduce operational confusion and work with application-centric dependency mapping: analyze and define the intricate relationships between
different components of the cloud. This feature speeds up the task of rebuilding these dependencies after an incident, making the rebuild process much faster. Thus, when a system is restored, all connected resources and services are aligned, with hardly any human intervention.
· Keeps 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 maintains control so that restored systems are safe and functional after an incident.
· Automated cyber recovery testing with Recovery-as-Code: Captures not only the data, but also the complete map of applications, infrastructure and network configurations. This means systems can be restored with their full operating scheme intact, reducing the guesswork for a full recovery.
· Avoid wasting cloud resources with on-demand cloud rebuild: Put it all back together, helping customers quickly rebuild both their data environment and their supporting infrastructure. This provides organizations with a secure and operational cloud environment, ready for immediate use following an outage.
Integrated, application-centric cyber and disaster recovery: Cloud Rewind integrates with Commvault Cloud’s data resiliency capabilities to help organizations quickly recover from short-term failures to debilitating cyberattacks with just a few clicks.
Cloud Rewind supports major public and private cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure, so the customer can truly choose the cloud.
Cyber Resilience Dashboard
As a complement to Commvault’s cloud-native reconstruction technology, it has also introduced the Cyber Resilience Dashboard. This scorecard provides ongoing ransomware readiness assessments that make it easier for organizations to understand where they have gaps in their resilience plans. It also offers practical information to improve resilience and recovery preparedness. The dashboard provides a view of the entire data set, evaluating components such as testing frequency and success, and the availability of immutable copies of critical data. Leveraging that information, organizations receive a score based on their recovery readiness and recommendations to improve it.