The increased interdependence between business resilience, cyber resilience, and data resilience—along with the essential role of cloud-based applications—validates Commvault’s decision to invest in the Appranix technology. Cloud Rewind offers more than traditional cloud recovery options do by augmenting recovery of individual applications, data sets, databases, PaaS, and serverless with tools to identify, protect, recover, or even to rebuild in isolated cloud accounts the interconnects that underpin cloud-based workloads, such as virtual private clouds, subnets, gateways, load balancers, security groups, and route tables. Without those tools, additional time and effort will be required to return to functional business operation, even after the application data has been recovered.
Cloud Rewind can accomplish this feat by continuously discovering and mapping the dependencies of cloud resources within an application environment and then incorporating infrastructure as code to automate and orchestrate the restoration and rebuilds. Commvault currently offers Cloud Rewind for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Commvault’s integration of the Cloud Rewind technology into the greater Commvault Cloud platform shows Commvault’s commitment to supporting the roadmap for the Cloud Rewind technology. In addition, it builds on Commvault’s strategy to simplify the protection, recovery, and resilience capabilities of public cloud applications.
What stands out about Cloud Rewind is its ability to accelerate the manual and often overlooked efforts required to restore business operations, even after cloud applications have been restored. Commvault Cloud Rewind helps automate the process of identifying, protecting, and recovering what for many organizations are “unknown unknowns,” namely, the cloud interdependences that add risk, time, and complexity to recovery efforts.
Ultimately, in order to effectively address the business risks associated with cyberattacks, businesses need the utmost confidence in recovery, including the ability to recover everything necessary for the business to function. You can’t just protect the apps and the data; you must protect everything in between as well.