Commvault introduces Recovery Studio, a tool that automates the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, and data using runbooks. The goal is to help organizations restore not only their data but their entire business operations after an outage or cyberattack.
Restoring a backup is one thing. Getting an entire application up and running again is something else entirely. This also requires restoring the underlying infrastructure, configurations, and identities in the correct order. According to Commvault, using conventional methods, it takes an average of 28 days for an organization to resume operations at a minimum level.
Recovery Studio is designed to orchestrate that process. The solution restores applications, identity systems, infrastructure dependencies, and datasets together in a single automated workflow. This enables a large enterprise to restore hundreds of applications and thousands of identities, including their associated configurations.
“This is the DevOps moment for recovery,” says Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology & AI Officer at 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.”
From containers to firewall rules
The runbooks are context-aware. They reconstruct and validate components such as containers, VMs, files, and objects. They also cover application and infrastructure configurations, as well as security and network settings, including firewall rules and network security groups.
Commvault also builds in security checks. For supported resources, the runbook can automatically scan for threats, ensuring compromised components are detected before services return to production.
Furthermore, a single platform must cover all scenarios: operational recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery.
Recovery Studio will enter early access in December. General availability will follow in the coming months. Pricing is based on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery.