Commvault announces Recovery Studio to automate business service recovery

Recovery Studio will combine application, identity, infrastructure and data restoration through automated runbooks, with integrated security checks to help enterprises coordinate business recovery following disruptions. Early access is targeted for December, followed by general availability.

Commvault has announced Recovery Studio, an enterprise recovery offering designed to coordinate the restoration of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies and datasets through automated workflows.

The offering will use context-aware runbooks to reconstruct and validate interconnected systems in the sequence needed to resume business operations. It aims to address the complexity of restoring services that depend on multiple applications, identity systems and infrastructure components.

Coordinating recovery across business dependencies

Recovery Studio will extend recovery orchestration beyond containers, virtual machines, files and objects to include application configurations, identity systems, infrastructure configurations, and security and network settings.

According to Commvault, restoring these components together can help organisations address dependencies that could otherwise leave applications unavailable even after their underlying data has been recovered.

“India’s digital economy moves too fast for businesses to figure out recovery after an attack. Organisations need to know before disruption hits what comes back first, what depends on what, and how critical services will be restored. Because recovering the data is one thing. Getting the business back up and running is what really matters,” said Balaji Rao, Area Vice President for India & SAARC at Commvault.

Security checks integrated into workflows

The offering will include automated threat scanning for supported resources within recovery runbooks. These checks are intended to identify compromised areas and inform recovery decisions before services return to production.

Recovery Studio will support operational, disaster and cyber recovery scenarios through a common platform. Unified runbooks will automate infrastructure rebuilds, workload recovery and the orchestration of security controls, including firewall rules and network security groups and 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 cloud application recovery requirements, 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 is targeting early access to Recovery Studio in December, with general availability planned in the coming months. Pricing will depend on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery.