Commvault Recovery Studio will orchestrate the restoration of applications, identities, infrastructure and data through automated workflows, with security checks and runbooks designed to help enterprises resume operations following disruptions across operational, disaster and cyber scenarios.
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Commvault has announced Recovery Studio, an enterprise recovery offering designed to restore applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies and datasets together through automated workflows. The company said the offering will help organisations coordinate the recovery of complete business services following disruptions.
Recovery Studio will use runbook-driven orchestration to restore interconnected components in the sequence required for applications to function. Early access is targeted for December, with general availability planned in the coming months.
Coordinating recovery across interconnected systems
Enterprise application recovery depends on more than restoring data. Supporting infrastructure, identity systems, configurations and network settings must also be available for services to resume. Commvault said Recovery Studio will address these dependencies through context-aware runbooks that automate reconstruction and validation.
The planned capabilities will cover containers, virtual machines, files and objects, alongside application and infrastructure configurations, identity systems, and security and network settings.
“This is the DevOps moment for recovery,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology & AI Officer, Commvault. “Recovery Studio replaces spreadsheets and war rooms with one orchestrated flow, from in-place to cleanroom, that brings the whole business back in the right order, including identities and cloud configurations.”
Security checks built into recovery workflows
Recovery Studio will include automated threat scanning for supported resources within recovery runbooks. According to Commvault, these checks will help identify compromised areas and inform decisions before services return to production.
The offering will support operational, disaster and cyber recovery scenarios through a common platform. Its runbooks will automate infrastructure rebuilds, workload recovery and the orchestration of security controls, including firewall rules, network security groups and related settings.
“This type of meaningful innovation can truly reshape how work gets done and how services are restored following a disruption,” said Chris Cola, Vice President, Information Technology & CIO, B&G Foods. “And, with the security checks that are built into the automated workflows, that elevates confidence levels that what we’re restoring is trusted and ready to return to production.”
Early access targeted for December
Commenting on the requirements of cloud application recovery, Johnny Yu, Research Manager, IDC, said: “For cloud-based applications, recovery must include infrastructure, network, and identity configurations as well as the data, files, and objects. Commvault's offering addresses the complexity of full application revival by allowing organizations to build and validate recovery runbooks for different applications and scenarios in a unified hub.”
Commvault said pricing will be based on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery. The company plans to share further details about Recovery Studio at SHIFT Virtual on November 18.
