At their virtual SHIFT 2025 event, Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, has announced the Commvault Cloud Unity platform release, which the company is terming one of the most substantive platform releases in Commvault’s history. This next-generation, AI-enabled version of Commvault Cloud now unifies data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
As cloud adoption accelerates, decentralization has amplified the challenges of fragmented tools, inconsistent protection policies, and limited visibility. Today security and IT teams are grappling with three distinct challenges:
AI is creating exponential volumes of distributed data, which introduces more threat vectors for bad actors to exploit.
Enterprises are using siloed products to secure, protect, manage, and recover data – tools that were never designed to work together.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach – enterprises are spread across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments and need resilience for all.
Commvault addresses these challenges with the Commvault Cloud Unity platform release.
With 86% of enterprises now operating in multi-cloud environments and nearly half of all cloud spend wasted due to lack of visibility, the need for a unified approach has never been greater. Purpose-built for cloud-first and hybrid enterprises, the new Commvault Cloud Unity platform release introduces a re-engineered experience designed for simplicity, speed, scale, and cost optimization, as Commvault centralizes resilience operations across clouds, regions, and accounts. With AI-enabled discovery, classification, and protection policy recommendations, this platform is designed to scale resilience in minutes across multi-cloud environments – at the best TCO.
In addition, unlike tools that only protect within their own ecosystem, Commvault’s latest platform release gives cloud teams a clear view of what’s protected, and what isn’t – highlighting the risk of unprotected data. It also provides visibility into the cost advantages of Commvault Cloud compared to other cloud solutions and providers, to create, store, manage, and recover secure copies of sensitive data. The new platform interface also enables easy docking of on-premises workloads from data centres and edge locations to further centralize governance across all data, no matter where it lives. With coverage spanning 160+ cloud regions and protection for over 200 cloud services, Commvault delivers the industry’s broadest workload protection and global resilience.
“We want to meet cloud-first and hybrid customers where they are today and will be tomorrow,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Chief Product Officer at Commvault. “That means giving enterprises the speed, precision, visibility, and confidence to protect, recover, and rebuild their data and applications anywhere in the cloud all via one simple, intelligent experience.”
Commvault’s focus on resilience is central.
“Enterprises are facing the perfect storm: non-stop cyber threats, exacerbated by AI; attacks on identity systems; and recovery challenges that impact revenues and reputations,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. “Commvault brought together the best engineering minds to create a transformative platform release that not only unifies resilience across disciplines and environments but can also help customers drive strong business outcomes.”
To stay resilient in a cloud-first world, your architecture must evolve. At Commvault, we transitioned from a monolithic foundation into a modern, microservices-based platform – designed for agility, scale, and the future of cyber resilience.
The new Commvault Cloud Unity platform release brings together data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience. By unifying these disciplines on one platform, customers have access to an industry-leading set of solutions that work seamlessly across their deployment options of choice.
Commvault’s data security capabilities embedded within the platform include AI-enabled discovery, classification, and protection policy recommendations along with data and AI access governance and active monitoring and enforcement. Commvault Cloud’s powerful set of data security capabilities will be enhanced by the recent acquisition of Satori Cyber.
Commvault’s cyber recovery gives customers access to transformative AI-enabled recovery capabilities that can foster the fastest, most complete recoveries. For example, following a cyberattack, IT and security teams can rely on Commvault’s new Synthetic Recovery offering to surgically remove compromised data while recovering the rest.
Commvault is also expanding its end-to-end Identity Resilience portfolio offerings that help enterprises detect, audit, and reverse hard-to-detect threats in identity systems like Active Directory.
“There have been hints of this type of platform in the industry where these disciplines are coming together,” said Jo Peterson, VP Cloud and Security, Cleartech Research. “But for the first time, Commvault has done it in a meaningful way that will truly advance resilience for enterprises globally.”
Benefits of the Commvault Cloud Unity Platform release include unified protection across all workloads, clouds and locations: By centralizing protection and recoverability, organizations can decrease downtime and increase availability of trusted data that businesses require to run in the AI era.
It also provides unified governance across separate operations: Traditionally, security, identity, and recovery teams apply separate tools to disconnected operations. With the Unity platform release, Commvault is changing that, unifying access and data policy monitoring, enforcement, and threat detection to drive rapid action and clean recovery.
Finally, the new platform provides unified intelligence across disparate systems. There is tremendous power in combining data security intelligence, identity and access patterns, and clean recovery analysis on a single platform. The result is AI-enabled action that is designed to help customers optimize resilience.
“Data security is the foundation of mission-critical IT infrastructure systems,” said Allen Downs, Security & Resiliency Vice President, Kyndryl. “By strengthening cyber resilience and recovery for essential services, organizations can better prepare to anticipate, protect against, withstand and recover from potentially disruptive events. In today’s environment, resiliency is an imperative.”
The platform release empowers organizations to rapidly onboard with AI-enabled simplicity, so that an AI-enabled experience automatically finds workloads across an organization’s cloud estates and recommends protection policies based on workload classification while supporting compliance initiatives.
Discovered cloud resources are analyzed for protection risk, with reports that include status of existing snapshots of discovered workloads, so cloud administrators can see protected versus under-protected workloads. After automatically discovering cloud resources, customers benefit from a TCO analysis that displays a list of unprotected and cloud-protected workloads (e.g., cloud snapshots), and the expected TCO savings the user would see by protecting those workloads with Commvault Cloud.
This platform release has strong multi-cloud and hybrid support, and is designed to unify protection across clouds, regions, and accounts and extends to protect on-premises environments across data centres and edge locations – all in one centralized UI.
For customers that want to go beyond the simple native cloud backup solutions offered by hyperscalers, Commvault Cloud makes it easy to add additional, integrated cyber resilience capabilities.
“Enterprises today are evolving from managing data in silos to orchestrating it across diverse cloud environments,” said Shelly Kramer, Principal Analyst, Kramer and Co. “The Commvault Cloud Unity platform release advances this shift by streamlining management, helping enterprises close protection gaps, optimizing costs, and transforming cloud native protection from an operational burden to a strategic advantage.”
The consumption models in this platform release are available in both Microsoft Azure and AWS marketplaces. Other parts of the Commvault Cloud Unity platform release will be available starting later this year, with feature rollouts continuing into early 2026.