Commvault Release Notes

Microsoft has announced that Exchange Web Services (EWS) will be fully retired in October 2026. This means all integrations currently using EWS — including Commvault Exchange Online operations — will need to transition to the Microsoft Graph API before that date.

🧭 What This Means for Commvault Users

Our Engineering and Development teams are already working to ensure a seamless migration of all Exchange-related functionality from EWS to Graph.

• Target rollout: Summer 2026
• Status: In development

You can continue to use existing EWS-based functionality for now. We’ll provide detailed configuration guidance and compatibility notes closer to the rollout.

💡 Why This Matters

The move to Microsoft Graph represents a significant shift in how Exchange data is accessed and protected. Commvault remains committed to delivering uninterrupted backup and recovery operations for Exchange Online as Microsoft evolves its API ecosystem.

📣 Stay Updated

Keep an eye on future announcements in this community for rollout details and transition guidance.
For the latest updates and official notices, check:

• 🔗 Commvault Software Announcements

• 🔗 Deprecation Notices
  And for Microsoft’s official statement:

• 🔗 Microsoft Tech Community Blog

• 🔗 Microsoft Learn Article

• Cheers, Arvind

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Update

Microsoft has resolved the issue that caused the global outage. Commvault services are now fully operational. We will review Microsoft’s RCA once available. Let us know if you experience any further issues accessing these resources.

Past advisory

We are currently experiencing an outage with our Chat application and Documentation sites due to the global Microsoft Azure outage affecting multiple Microsoft-hosted applications. Commvault has escalated the issue with Microsoft, and we are working to resolve this as quickly as possible.

If you need support during the outage, please contact us through the
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We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience during this time. We’ll keep you updated.

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General Availability: Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for DevOps

As organizations increasingly rely on DevOps platforms like Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab for software development, the security and recoverability of repositories, metadata, and CI/CD pipelines is critical.
That’s why we are excited to announce the general availability of Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for DevOps. Now, you can safeguard your valuable source code, intellectual property, and configurations from accidental deletion, corruption, or malicious attacks.

Why Back Up DevOps Data?

DevOps platforms are critical to modern software development, facilitating collaboration, streamlining workflows, and enabling teams to deploy software and applications quickly and efficiently. These platforms store a wealth of business-critical intellectual property, including source code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, wikis, issues, configurations, and metadata. But what if...

• A developer accidentally deletes a repo?
• A compromised credential leads to the malicious deletion of source code?
• A misconfiguration in your CI/CD pipeline wipes out essential deployment artifacts?

These scenarios are not hypothetical. Accidental deletions, insider threats, and cyberattacks can all halt development, cause project delays, and severely impact productivity as teams struggle to reconstruct lost work. And while some DevOps platforms offer built-in backup tools, they often fall short in providing comprehensive coverage and granular recovery options, leaving critical data exposed to potential threats. Custom scripts might seem like a viable workaround, but they are technically challenging to set up and maintain, often leading to gaps in protection and increased risk of errors.

Keep DevOps Data Safe and Recoverable with the Help of Commvault Cloud

Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for DevOps delivers enterprise-grade protection for Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab to help safeguard valuable intellectual property, source code, and configurations from accidental deletion, corruption, or malicious attacks. Commvault Cloud offers:

• Comprehensive coverage: Protect your repositories, metadata, and configurations across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab—all from a single, unified solution.
• Automated, policy-based backups: Automated backups that follow your policies, enabling consistent and reliable protection.
• Fast, granular recovery: Restore what you need, from a single project or repo to individual artifacts and pipelines, with flexible in-place and out-of-place recovery options, including cross-platform migration.
• Immutable, air-gapped backups: Help minimize the risk of ransomware with immutable and indelible backups.
• Compliance readiness: Help stay ahead of audits with detailed audit logs and comprehensive reporting.
• Enterprise-scale performance: High-speed, API-efficient backups that intelligently circumvent rate limits to handle massive DevOps environments without bottlenecks.

Get Started Today

To learn more about how Commvault can enhance your DevOps resilience, visit the Backup & Recovery for DevOps page on our website, talk to your account owner or, if you’re ready to try it, sign up for a 30-day free trial.
Don't let data loss or disruption derail your development efforts. Extend the same enterprise-grade protection and centralized management you trust for your other workloads, now integrated with Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab.

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Overview

The Commvault Cloud platform has been designed with continuous business in mind. To enable continuous business, companies must be able to protect and restore the critical set of applications, assets, and processes required to continue operations. We call this “minimum viability” and provide a discovery and design framework to help organizations reach their goals.

From simplified operations to deeper integrations across hybrid and cloud-native environments, Commvault’s latest platform release delivers innovations that help IT teams achieve minimum viability and maximize recoverability, all while improving cyber resilience and operational agility.

Here are some highlights for the newest capabilities for protecting your essential data and environments. From cloud and on-premises workload protection to data and application security, Commvault continues to expand our SaaS and Software backup and recovery solutions to address customer needs. Refer to the 11.40 SaaS and Software release notes for detailed information.

Backup & Recovery for DevOps

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for DevOps. This enterprise-grade solution delivers comprehensive protection for DevOps environments, including Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab.

Whether you need to safeguard repositories, pipelines, or metadata, Commvault simplifies and secures your DevOps backup operations, enabling fast and granular recovery—all through our unified platform.

Cloud Workload Protection

Commvault is focused on enabling customers to protect their data wherever it lives. Cloud-native support has been updated to include several new capabilities, including:

• Auto-Scaling for Amazon EC2 Recovery: Optimize workload performance and reduce costs by leveraging a mix of purchase options and EC2 instance types.
• Cross Geo Region Restore for Azure CVM: Easily restore VMs with customer-managed keys across different regions.
• Protection for Google Cloud Virtual Machines and Persistent Disks: Enable reliable recovery for VMs and Persistent Disks through snapshots and streaming backup copies.
• Unified Onboarding for Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Object Storage: Simplify cloud object storage workload onboarding with a streamlined experience.

On-Premises Workload Protection

Data Storage Solutions

Protecting data backups involves saving the critical information to either an on-premises storage pool or to a cloud-hosted storage location. Commvault offers both solutions.

• Air Gap Protect now supports using Google Cloud to secure sensitive information through isolated data copies for Frequent Access and Infrequent Access tiers.
• HyperScale Edge provides a single-node storage pool for on-premises data protection with capacity up to 200TB. This can be used as Infrequent Access backup storage for standalone midmarket businesses or as a Frequent Access solution to provide quick access for remote locations that may use a corporate central site for a long-term AuxCopy.
• IntelliSnap support includes integration with VAST data snapshots, SnapLock Compliance, and support for HPE Virtual Lock for safeguarding data.

Learn More

Be sure to read the SaaS and Self-hosted Software “What’s New” documentation for the details on using the new release features. Stay tuned for details on our platform release webinar in July - we’ll update here when registration is open.

If you’re a current customer, you can access the latest version through the Commvault Store as usual. If not and you are interested to see our solution first-hand, you can always try Commvault Cloud free for 30 days.

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Release 11.38 update pack 32

In release 11.38 update pack 32, we are introducing a new feature for both Software and SaaS database customer environments: log backup with caching for SQL, Oracle, and SAP HANA databases. This allows you to perform log backups at more frequent intervals and leverage a caching mechanism to securely and efficiently transfer transaction logs from the database server to backup storage.

The Log Backup with Caching feature enhances database protection by enabling high-frequency transaction log backups—even during control plane/CommServe computer downtime. Logs are first written to a secure cache before being backed up to storage, allowing for data consistency and the potential to improve RPOs.

This change will be enabled for new backup plans automatically and does not require action. Existing backup plans for SaaS customers will be updated over the coming months. Read through our FAQ below for more details.

Q: What is Log Backup with Caching?

Log Backup with Caching allows transaction logs to be dumped to a cache at frequent intervals (as low as 15 minutes), even when the Commvault control plane/CommServe computer is temporarily unavailable. Logs are then swept from the cache to backup storage using a secure, efficient pipeline​.
📽 We’ve created a quick Readiverse video that explains this feature available for customers and partners.

Q: Why was this feature introduced?

The addition of Log Backup with Caching helps to improve RPOs, maintain data protection during control plane/CommServe computer outages, and reduce the load on the control plane/CommServe computer by offloading log backup tasks to the client side​.

Q: How does it work?

The process includes two phases:

• Dump Phase: Logs are written to a cache at defined intervals.
• Sweep Phase: Logs are later transferred (swept) from cache to backup storage over Commvault’s encrypted and compressed Secure Data Transfer (SDT) pipeline​.

Q: What are the key benefits?

• Improved RPOs with backups as frequently as every 15 minutes.
• Resilience during control plane/CommServe computer downtime.
• Secure and compressed log transfers using SDT.
• Reduced load on the control plane/CommServe computer.
• Log backups included in SLA tracking and alerts​.

Q: What use cases benefit from this feature?

• High-transaction environments requiring frequent log backups.
• Unreliable connectivity to the control plane/CommServe computer.
• Control plane/CommServe computer resource constraints.
• Compliance-driven environments that need frequent, secure backups​.

Q: How do I enable Log Backup with Caching?

1. In the Commvault Command Center, go to Manage > Plans.
2. Create a backup plan or edit an existing one.
3. In the RPO section, configure log backup frequency and toggle the option to “enable log backups with caching.”
4. Assign the backup plan to your database sub-clients​.
   Note: Starting with release 11.38.26 (May 2025), this feature will be enabled by default for all new backup plans.

Q: What happens to existing backup plans after 11.38.26?

Existing backup plans will continue to honor their current log caching setting and backup frequency. The Log Backup with Caching feature will not be automatically enabled or modified for these plans—you can update the setting manually if desired.

Q: Where is the cache stored?

The cache resides on the backup storage associated with the primary copy of the backup plan. No manual setup is needed—Commvault handles this automatically​ when caching is enabled.

Q: Are there limits or recommendations in terms of capacity that need to be accommodated when this feature is enabled?

No, customers do not need to worry about accommodating any additional capacity. Whatever is accommodated for the storage library should be sufficient.

Q: Is this supported where the primary storage leverages a cloud storage target, e.g. S3?

Yes, it is supported in cases where the primary storage leverages cloud storage as well. In this case the logs are cached to the cloud storage location itself.

Q: How does this affect log backup jobs?

Commvault jobs will run during the sweep phase (when logs are moved to storage), not during the dump phase. This helps to reduce the overall number of Commvault log jobs visible within the GUI and improves system efficiency​. Dump backup jobs continue to be performed in the background to the cache.

Q: How can I monitor log backups with caching?

• SLA Reports automatically include log backup SLAs when caching is enabled.
• Alerts like “Missed Log Backup SLA” can be configured​.

Q: How does this impact my ability to do point-in-time restores?

There is no change to the restore process. Restores can be performed from any log backup.

Q: Are log backups with caching supported for Oracle Dataguard?

Not at present. This support is in the works and will be announced soon.

Q: What are the requirements?

Please refer to the official Commvault documentation for supported versions, agents, and prerequisites:

• Software: Commvault Documentation – Caching for Frequent Database Log Backups
• SaaS: SaaS Documentation – Disk Caching for Frequent Database Log Backups

Q: Where can I learn more?

Refer to:

• Software: Commvault Documentation – Caching for Frequent Database Log Backups
• SaaS: SaaS Documentation – Caching for Frequent Database Log Backups

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Release 11.38 update pack 32

In release 11.38 update pack 32, we are introducing a new feature for both Software and SaaS database customer environments: log backup with caching for SQL, Oracle, and SAP HANA databases. This allows you to perform log backups at more frequent intervals and leverage a caching mechanism to securely and efficiently transfer transaction logs from the database server to backup storage.

Log Backup with Caching

The Log Backup with Caching feature enhances database protection by enabling high-frequency transaction log backups—even during control plane/CommServe computer downtime. Logs are first written to a secure cache before being backed up to storage, allowing for data consistency and the potential to improve RPOs.

This change will be enabled for new backup plans automatically and does not require action. Existing backup plans for SaaS customers will be updated over the coming months. Read through our FAQ below for more details.

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June 2025 update

June 2025 update: The Cleanroom Recovery solution now supports deployment on AWS alongside Microsoft Azure, as well as new capabilities for automated recovery of file shares and enhanced functionality for managed service providers. For additional details on the GA release, see see the full GA blog post on our web site.

Cleanroom Recovery is an on-demand secure and isolated environment for organizations to help them prepare, validate, and execute cyber recovery – delivering continuous business. Commvault is democratizing cleanrooms. With Commvault’s offering, any organization can have cyber recovery readiness and resilience without the cost of dark site locations and complex infrastructure proliferation. Put your resilience to the test. Commvault® Cloud Cleanroom™ Recovery makes reliable cyber recovery testing and readiness possible for any enterprise.

In the face of constant breaches, testing your cyber resilience plan is crucial for success. Ransomware attacks targeting backup environments pose a significant risk during recovery. Commvault Cloud’s Cleanroom Recovery allows organizations to confidently test cyber resilient recovery plans, conduct forensic analysis, and have uninterrupted continuous business. Experience reliable, faster recovery times; reduced downtime; and a streamlined process.

Commvault has announced significant advancements to its Cleanroom Recovery software solution, now supporting deployment on AWS alongside Microsoft Azure, as well as new capabilities for automated recovery of file shares and enhanced functionality for managed service providers. SaaS support is also now available as of summer 2025.

Many customers use various cloud providers for different applications and workloads, and now Commvault supports both AWS and Microsoft Azure, enhancing cyber resilience for AWS-native multi-cloud environments. Customers can now seamlessly recover workloads into a cleanroom in AWS or Microsoft Azure using Cleanroom Recovery.

Other key features

• Cloud-Based Isolated Recovery: On-demand cleanroom in the cloud for secure, fast recovery of workloads that enables regular testing of cyber recovery plans without disrupting production.
• Multi-Platform Orchestrated VM Recovery: Orchestrated any-to-any conversion for seamless VM recovery across clouds, on-premises, and physical servers.
• Pave/Repave: Quickly repave compromised VMs using secure, pre-configured golden images for consistent and clean environments.
• Script-Based Malware Detection: Anomaly detection via scripts to identify ransomware using Windows Defender.
• Auto Scaling of Recovery Infrastructure: Functionality to allow automatic deployment and scaling of recovery infrastructure to match the size and complexity of recovery operations.

These recent advancements bring significant benefits to you, our valued customers. With accelerated recovery processes assisted by automation, we minimize downtime and business disruption. The solution also boosts your confidence in cyber resilience strategies by supporting multiple cloud environments and offering advanced recovery options tailored to your unique business needs.

Additionally, Cleanroom Recovery helps alignment with industry benchmarks like NIST CSF, regulatory requirements such DORA that require organizations to prove recovery readiness from cyber-attacks. Enhances your compliance with critical regulatory frameworks, further strengthening your operational security and trust.

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• Or, contact your account representative for more details!

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Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition. This offering builds on our existing AD protection capabilities, which include change detection and granular object-level restores, and brings a new level of resilience by enabling automated, rapid recovery of the Active Directory forest.

AD Recovery is Foundational to Continuous Business
Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the cornerstone of most enterprise IT networks, providing essential authentication and authorization for business-critical applications and resources. When AD is damaged or taken completely offline, the critical applications and services it supports become inaccessible. Consider the impact: Bank staff can't access customer accounts. Doctors and nurses can't access medical records. Coders and developers can't publish code. Teams can't collaborate or chat to get work done.
Without AD, the business cannot continue. Cybercriminals know this, which is why they make AD a primary target in an estimated 9 out of 10 cyberattacks**. When disaster strikes, recovering Active Directory is vital, yet traditionally has been very hard to do, requiring intricate, time-consuming, manual processes.
With ransomware increasingly targeting critical identity infrastructure, having a well-documented and frequently tested recovery plan to restore your entire Active Directory to a pre-attack state is critical.

The Complexities of Active Directory Forest Recovery
Microsoft provides prescriptive guidance on rebuilding an entire AD forest after a catastrophic disaster in their
Active Directory Forest Recovery Guide. Due to the complex nature of AD, the elements involved in a full forest recovery are rigid, prescriptive, time-consuming, and highly susceptible to human error. Depending on the complexity of your AD architecture, the procedure can involve 50 to 100 or even more tasks.
Due to AD's distributed nature and multi-master architecture, restoring it demands meticulous coordination during recovery. It’s not possible to simply restore domain controllers from backup and call it a day. There are dozens of intricate hygiene steps that must be performed at specific points during the forest recovery. If these steps aren’t followed, you risk introducing new corruption or inconsistencies in the recovered environment
Relying on a manual disaster or cyber recovery plan and out-of-the-box tools could mean it takes days to restore an entire AD forest. In a disaster, time is of the essence, and the longer it takes to restore AD back to a working state, the greater the disruption to your business.

Automate and Accelerate AD recovery with Commvault Cloud
Commvault Cloud for Active Directory Enterprise Edition provides automated and full forest recovery for Active Directory that enables rapid restoration of the AD forest to a pre-attack state. This automation eliminates slow and error-prone manual processes, reducing the risk of errors and accelerating recovery times. Here’s how it works:

• Make AD recovery a snap via automated runbooks:
  Automated forest recovery runbooks orchestrate the multi-step process required for AD forest recovery, including the critical AD hygiene tasks required to verify consistency in the recovered directory, such as seizing FSMO roles and adjusting the RID pool. These runbooks also can be used for regular testing in non-production environments to enhance cyber readiness.
• Enable fast recovery of the most important AD infrastructure:
  Visual topology views of your AD environment enable simple and rapid identification of which domain controllers to restore first and how they should be recovered to accelerate the availability of AD services.
• Track recovery progress with step-by-step runbook views:
  Prescriptive runbook views of the recovery process provide transparency and fine-grained control, allowing you to easily tailor the workflow to your environment. During recovery, you have visibility into where you are in the process and how long until your Active Directory is back online.

Accelerate recovery times and advance resilience
Manually recovering an AD forest can take days or even weeks to complete, but with Commvault, you can recover it in a fraction of the time. Commvault Cloud integrates AD forest recovery with granular recovery of both AD and Entra ID, providing comprehensive protection.
Visit our
Active Directory solution page to learn more or experience the solution firsthand through our
interactive walk-through demo.

** Sheridan, K. (2021, May 3).
Researchers Explore Active Directory Attack Vectors. Dark Reading.

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Commvault has been busy releasing exciting new capabilities to version 11.38 of the Commvault® Cloud platform so you can keep more of your data safe and secure. Over the past few months, we’ve announced numerous enhancements for supporting more cloud workloads and enabling your continuous business.

Commvault continues to expand our ecosystem for cloud-first environments. Additional capabilities for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI environments allow companies to protect and recover cloud data against emerging data loss threats. Commvault Cloud makes the world’s fastest recovery fool-proof and predictable, so that data is always secure and available, wherever it lives. Here are some key highlights for what is now available and coming soon.

Backup & Recovery for Google Workspace

Keep your critical Google Workspace data safe and recoverable from data loss threats. The Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery solution now provides reliable protection for Gmail, Google Drive, and Shared Drives, with extended retention to enable your organization’s productivity, even after incidents like cyberattacks or accidental deletions. Learn more.

Expanding Support for Amazon AWS and S3

We’re introducing many exciting new capabilities for Amazon workloads.

• Cloud Rewind for AWS: When a breach occurs, Cloud Rewind reduces the time to rebuild AWS infrastructures from weeks to minutes maintaining cyber resiliency. Now you can rapidly recover critical data, cloud applications, and configurations to a clean state and swiftly rebuild their cloud environments to a known safe state after cyber incidents.
• Clumio Backtrack for Amazon S3 and DynamoDB: Rapidly roll back changes for large amounts of Amazon S3 objects to a specific version at a specific point in time with Clumio Backtrack.
• Cleanroom Recovery for AWS: If you’re using AWS as your primary cloud, now you can seamlessly recover critical workloads into an AWS environment as your Cleanroom Recovery target.
• Air Gap Protect for AWS: This feature will allow customers to confidently store, protect, and scan their data in a secure environment while keeping it separate from their AWS infrastructure. Administrators can take advantage of the benefits of air-gapped storage at a lower cost and apply it across their AWS environments.

Enhanced Recovery for Active Directory

Recovering Active Directory is foundational to maintaining continuous business after a cyberattack, yet traditional methods are too complex and prone to error. Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition brings a new level of resilience to Active Directory by enabling automated, rapid recovery of the AD forest after ransomware attacks and irreversible forest corruption.
Read the press release and visit the Active Directory solution page to learn more and see a demo of the solution.

Fight Ransomware Earlier

Commvault empowers our customers to fortify their defenses against cyber threats by leveraging CrowdStrike Falcon with our Enterprise Backup and Recovery platform. The CrowdStrike integration facilitates early threat detection, enabling prompt and coordinated responses that safeguard backup assets, secure sensitive data, and initiate proactive recovery actions.

Backup Kubernetes Containers

As businesses modernize their applications, many have chosen Kubernetes as their go-to platform to manage large amounts of data for hybrid cloud apps. Commvault enables Kubernetes backup and recovery specifically designed for large objects with a solution that seamlessly interacts with the Kubernetes API server to discover and collect application data and configurations. This reduces the load on the Kubernetes API server and increases the reliability and recovery readiness.

Protect Data at the Edge

Today’s cyber resilience must extend beyond on-premises data centers to edge and remote sites. Companies need to ensure the data and apps for their remote and branch locations receive the same level of protection as their on-premises and cloud deployments. HyperScale Edge enables seamless data protection at remote sites, providing flexibility and visibility for managing remote data and applications.

Commvault Recognized Again as a Leader in the Forrester Wave

With all the innovation we’ve been adding to our cyber resiliency platform, Commvault has been named a Leader once again and was ranked highest for strength of offering by Forrester in The Forrester Wave™️: Data Resilience Solutions, Q4 2024 report, saying “Commvault is a great fit for customers looking to protect large, complex IT environments across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS.” Download the report to see Commvault’s placement and learn more about why we were named a leader.

This table will help you know which features are available for your environment.

Feature Availability CrowdStrike Integration Now available Backup & Recovery for Google Workspace Now available Air Gap Protect on AWS Now Available Cloud Rewind Now available Clumio Backtrack for Amazon S3 Now available Cleanroom Recovery for AWS Now available Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition Now available HyperScale Edge Early Adopter

Want Early Access?
If you’re interested in gaining access to early adopter programs, please contact us at [email protected].

Want to learn more or get access to the new release?
Documentation of new features and capabilities of this release is available for Software and SaaS in our technical documentation. To install or upgrade to the 11.38 Software release, please complete the Innovation Release Request Form, available at cloud.commvault.com.

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Overview of Commvault Cloud Platform Release 2024E

As we've journeyed with our customers over the past year, we’ve witnessed and responded to three key digital trends. These trends have greatly informed the development of our upcoming release, Commvault Cloud Platform Release 2024E, specifically designed to address the challenges posed by these trends.

• Cyber threats and the impact on response, recovery, and resilience
  Cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and targeted, significantly impacting response, recovery, and resilience. The cost of these incidents goes beyond ransom payments and impacts operational and business continuity. Although customers have become adept at disaster and operational recovery, the emergence of ransomware has altered the landscape.

• Increasing data distribution across clouds, regions, and apps
  Complexity increases as data is distributed across clouds, regions, and apps. Data sprawl and a patchwork of vertical solutions make maintaining a cohesive and reliable resilience practice nearly impossible. It’s hard, and ransomware loves that.

• As-a-service power, from initial onboarding to global enterprise
  Businesses navigating the cyber resilience landscape want the promise of SaaS-like simplicity alongside robust scalability. They want easy onboarding through sophisticated global deployments and prioritize solutions offering seamless integration, elastic scalability, robust security, and ease of use.

Overview
Given that, we are excited to share the latest features and capabilities of Commvault Cloud Platform Release 2024E. This semi-annual release helps customers get the most out of Commvault Cloud to elevate your cyber resilience and data protection strategy by making protecting and managing your data easier and faster.

Let’s examine some new feature highlights and use cases in the Commvault Cloud Platform Release 2024E.

Security

Unify security across all your hybrid data in one powerful cloud.
Accelerate rapid, clean recovery at enterprise scale.
Improve operational efficiency and response times.

• Threat Scan Support for VMs
• Post-Quantum Security Enhancements
• Splunk for SOAR integration
• Default Compliance Lock for Air Gap Protect
• Protect Encrypted ETCD Database
• Secrets Detection in Risk Analysis

Recovery

• Domain Controller Recovery with Cleanroom
• HyperScale X Hardware Platform Updates
• Air Gap Protect for OCI

Improved User Experience

• Kubernetes License Updates – Add Capacity Licensing
• Arlie Opt-in/ Opt-out Access

Security
The security features in Commvault Cloud bring powerful capabilities to fight evolving cyber threats proactively.

Threat Scan Support for VMs:
Scan VM backups for potential malware infection so you can make informed response and recovery actions. Quickly find threats within backups and quarantine them​ so you can recover clean systems and data faster while avoiding reinfection​.

Post-Quantum Security Enhancements:
Implement a pluggable post-quantum cryptography framework to support current algorithms outlined in NIST FIPS 203, 204, 205 publications, as well as the ability to integrate new algorithms as PQC evolves in the future. For deeper insights into this revolutionary technology, we invite you to explore our latest blog post from Michael Fasulo and David Cunningham.

Two components have been updated.

• Key exchange encapsulation: Establishes symmetric encryption key during TLS set up utilizing CRYSTALS-Kyber
• Signature generation and verification: This process creates a chain of certificates and authenticates parties involved in the TLS set up that helps prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Utilizing CRYSTALS-Dilithium3 or FALCON

Splunk for Soar Integration:
With this integration, view Commvault alerts and audit events in Splunk so you can respond with orchestrated actions to improve your security posture. This provides a central location to view security and incident data for faster identification and response to security incidents.

Available actions can be automatically trigger to run on any event or integrated with broader playbooks.

Default Compliance Lock for Air Gap Protect:
Enable Compliance Lock on all newly created and existing Air Gap Protect storage pools and copies to maintain data security and adherence to compliance requirements.

Enhance data protection by enabling security lock on new and existing storage.

Protect Encrypted ETCD Database:
Enable ETCD to encrypt resources like Secrets and Config maps, providing an additional layer of data security to help protect against sensitive data loss if an ETCD backup is exposed to the incorrect parties. This helps support security best practices in the Kubernetes environment by protecting encrypted ETCD databases.

Secrets detection risk analysis: Automatically discover exposed private keys and API keys stored insecurely, such as in log files or plain text. This helps organizations proactively secure sensitive data and strengthen your security posture.

Recovery
Our latest features continue to extend our coverage of cloud-native workloads to protect and recover data in one cyber-resilient platform seamlessly.

Domain Controller Recovery with Cleanroom:
Cleanroom recovery of an Active Directory Domain Controller enables secure and rapid recovery of the infrastructure needed to authenticate users and provide access control functions. This means recovered applications are accessible for conducting cyber recovery plan testing and application validation.

Quick recovery of Active Directory into an on-demand cleanroom.

HyperScale X Hardware Platform Updates:
Commvault is pleased to support a new reference architecture partner, Lenovo. We’ve also updated adapters for Intel and updated HPE's DL380 to Gen 11, providing greater flexibility in choosing a verified hardware vendor for HyperScale X.

Air Gap Protect for OCI:
Air-gapped, immutable cloud storage for OCI is an excellent choice for secondary or tertiary backup copies. It makes them inaccessible to bad actors and limits an attacker's potential for infection, modification, or deletion.

Improved User Experience
Kubernetes License Update – Add Capacity Licensing:
We now provide flexibility in choosing between CapacityTB or per-application (VOI) licensing so users can determine the proper metering based on their Kubernetes deployment. CapacityTB is the default metering.​

Arlie Opt-in/Opt-out Access:
Arlie, our AI assistant, is now easily accessible in the Commvault Cloud platform with opt-in/opt-out access. Opt-in to gain insights and specific action steps to optimize your cyber resilience.

Easy access from the header on the Command Center with the Arlie icon

Want to learn more or get access to the new release?
Documentation of new features and capabilities of this tech preview release is available in our documentation here. You can submit a request to download the release from this page - follow the link under “Technology Release” at the bottom.
For the latest update on our platform release process and schedule, read this blog post.
Stay tuned for our 2024E platform release webinars too - we’ll share details on schedule and registration here in the community soon.

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