Commvault has announced developments to its Cleanroom Recovery option, which the company believes is transforming what cyber attack recovery looks like in the modern world.
Cleanroom Recovery is being extended to support Commvault’s SaaS customers. This deployment option ‘democratises the technology so that companies of all sizes can benefit from the offering’ says Commvault.
Cleanroom Recovery is hosted in the cloud, enabling organizations to orchestrate recovery into a clean, isolated location in Microsoft Azure. Customers can do this on-demand and only pay for it when they use it. Cleanroom Recovery also gives organizations the ability to rapidly and regularly conduct cyber recovery plan tests across their IT infrastructure.
What problem is Commvault solving?
A cleanroom is an isolated recovery environment that is frequently used for secure cyber recovery scenarios. However, traditional cleanrooms are often resource-intensive, requiring organizations to maintain duplicative environments for every critical application across every server and every location. Many organizations simply can’t afford to do this.
Additionally, many companies don’t have the time, money, or staff required to test all the interdependencies across these types of hybrid environments to know they can recover when attacked. If they can test, and it fails, they often don’t have the resources to test again. This leaves organizations unpractised, vulnerable, and at the mercy of bad actors. Commvault is solving these problems through Cleanroom Recovery.
With disaster recovery, testing your recovery strategy once a year was fine. For example, with a natural disaster, you didn’t have to worry about bad actors infiltrating your systems. You just needed to be able to recover. Now, with AI-driven attacks, threat vectors change by the hour. The need to not only test your recovery frequently but know you have a clean place to recover in the cloud has never been more important.
Brian Brockway, CTO, Commvault
