Commvault proposes a new approach to data security within organizations’ processes with an enterprise recovery model that uses precise automation to restore the business, not just the data.
Known as Commvault Recovery Studio, the tool will coordinate the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies and data sets together in an automated workflow based on operational guides to help organizations quickly restore and resume their business operations.
This marks a big shift in how businesses recover. With this type of automation, businesses can say goodbye to laborious, manual attempts to restore complicated business services in a piecemeal manner, which can lead to downtime and data loss. An example: All it takes is for a single application to go offline and the infrastructure, configurations, and identities necessary for it to function properly are missing.
A large enterprise may need to restore hundreds of applications and thousands of identities—including underlying data and configurations—all in the right order and at the right time. Not surprisingly, with conventional approaches, recovery to even a minimal level of operation takes an average of 28 days, far too long in an era where processes operate at machine speed.
What organizations can do with Recovery Studio
- Restore entire stackreplacing manual processes with automation that reconstructs and validates the wide range of interconnected components in the correct sequence, following a manual of procedures that takes into account the context. These components not only include containers, virtual machines, files, and objects, but also encompass identity systems, application configurations, infrastructure configurations, and network and security settings.
- Incorporate data security checks in recovery, enabling automated threat analysis for supported resources in the procedures manual, to identify compromised areas and guide recovery decisions before returning services to production.
- Standardize all recovery scenariosusing a single platform for various recovery scenarios, including operational, disaster and cyber recoveries. Unified procedure manuals automate infrastructure rebuilding, workload recovery, and orchestration of security controls such as firewall rules and groups and network security settings—all actions necessary to rebuild the business, not just recover data.
“This is DevOps’ time for recovery,” says Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault. “Recovery Studio replaces spreadsheets and crisis rooms with an orchestrated flow, from the original environment to the clean environment, that returns the entire business to its correct order, including identities and cloud configurations.”
“This type of significant innovation can truly transform the way we work and how services are restored after an outage,” said Chris Cola, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at B&G Foods. “Additionally, with security controls built into automated workflows, confidence is increased that what we are restoring is reliable and ready to return to production.”
Commvault Recovery Studio Introduces Intelligent Recovery Orchestration
“For cloud-based applications, recovery must include infrastructure, network, and identity configurations, as well as data, files, and objects,” said Johnny Yu, research director at IDC. “Commvault’s offering addresses the complexity of full application restore by allowing organizations to create and validate recovery roadmaps for different applications and scenarios in a unified center.”
Commvault’s Recovery Studio is scheduled to be available in early access throughout the month of December, and will be released to the market in the coming months. Pricing will be based on the amount of data configured for recovery orchestrated by each organization.
