Commvault has introduced enhancements to its Cloud Rewind solution, aiming to bolster the protection and recovery of Microsoft Azure resources. This development is designed to assist organizations in swiftly restoring cloud applications and the supporting resources, simplifying what is typically a cumbersome and error-prone manual process.
The difficulty in manually rebuilding environments is highlighted by Absolute Security's 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience report, which found that recovery from a cyberattack takes more than 4.5 days on average for 57% of enterprises. Cloud Rewind facilitates continuous discovery of cloud resources, mapping application dependencies, and orchestrating the recovery of cloud applications, infrastructure, configurations, and dependencies all from a single platform.
Expanded Azure Resource Coverage
This expansion increases Azure protection by threefold, covering 62% of Azure resource types relevant to enterprises currently available. Organizations can now validate their recovery readiness by simulating application recovery, including in isolated, air-gapped environments, before a real incident occurs.
Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, SVP & Global Head-IT Infrastructure & Cloud at Allcargo Group Companies, emphasized the importance of operational continuity, stating, “In global logistics, every minute of downtime can disrupt supply chains and impact customer trust. Data is critical, but it needs the right cloud infrastructure to stay actionable.”
Enhanced Integration and Policies
Commvault has also deepened integration in backup and recovery operations
Commvault has also deepened integration in backup and recovery operations. Protection Groups now combine application data and cloud configurations for a seamless, air-gapped recovery experience.
This allows teams to plan and execute recovery from a single platform without the need for multiple tools. Furthermore, policy-based protection automatically enrolls discovered resources by tag, region, and type across multiple cloud environments using a streamlined workflow.
Unified Recovery Experience
Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault, noted, “Cloud Rewind helps organizations recover cloud applications through a unified experience in Commvault Cloud, increasing customers’ confidence in their ability to recover following a cyberattack or outage.” Melinda Marks, Senior Research Director and Chief Analyst at Omdia, added, “As applications and their associated cloud resources become more complex, organizations need an effective way to rapidly recover, with restoration capabilities across configurations, dependencies, and multiple cloud platforms.”
Cloud Rewind is available today as an add-on workload within Commvault Cloud, with expanded Azure protection slated for release in the coming months. The pricing structure is based on protected cloud resources.
Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announces advancements to Cloud Rewind, expanding Microsoft Azure resource coverage for configuration protection and recovery. Through this expansion, Commvault is helping organizations more rapidly restore cloud applications and the resources that support them.
Manually rebuilding environments is often slow, complex, and error-prone. According to Absolute Security's 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience report, 57% of enterprises said recovery from a cyberattack took more than 4.5 days on average.
Discovering cloud resources
Cloud Rewind addresses this by continuously discovering cloud resources, mapping application dependencies, and orchestrating the recovery and rebuild of cloud applications, including the infrastructure, configurations, and dependencies they need to operate, from a single platform. This expansion broadens Azure protection by 3X – now covering 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types available in the market. Organizations can also validate recovery readiness through application recovery simulations, including within isolated, air-gapped environments, before an incident occurs.
“In global logistics, every minute of downtime can disrupt supply chains and impact customer trust. Data is critical, but it needs the right cloud infrastructure to stay actionable,” said Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, SVP & Global Head-IT Infrastructure & Cloud, Allcargo Group Companies. “With Cloud Rewind, we don’t just recover files — we restore our operational environment in hours, ensuring our customers experience continuity without compromise.”
Multiple cloud environments
Additional enhancements include:
- Deeper integration into Commvault backup and recovery: Protection Groups unite application data and cloud configuration into a single, air-gapped recovery experience, so teams can plan and execute recovery from one place instead of stitching together separate tools.
- More advanced policies for dynamic at-scale protection: Policy-based protection automatically enrols discovered resources by tag, region, and type across multiple cloud environments, using a single workflow, so teams can protect resources at cloud scale instead of onboarding them one at a time.
Protected cloud resources
“Modern applications depend on interconnected cloud services, infrastructure, and configurations that must be recovered together,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. “Cloud Rewind helps organizations recover cloud applications through a unified experience in Commvault Cloud, increasing customers’ confidence in their ability to recover following a cyberattack or outage.”
“Many organizations discover their recovery plan is incomplete only after an incident has occurred,” said Melinda Marks, Senior Research Director and Chief Analyst, Omdia. “As applications and their associated cloud resources become more complex, organizations need an effective way to rapidly recover, with restoration capabilities across configurations, dependencies, and multiple cloud platforms.”
Cloud Rewind, available today, is delivered as an add-on workload within Commvault Cloud for cloud application protection and app-centric recovery. Expanded Azure protection is targeted for availability in the coming months. Pricing is metered based on protected cloud resources.
