Fady Richmany, Corporate Vice President and General Manager: Emerging Markets at Commvault, outlines how the unified Commvault Cloud Unity platform strengthens cyber resilience by integrating data security, identity protection, and AI‑driven recovery to counter rising threats and safeguard multi‑cloud environments.
Can you walk us through the key innovations in the Commvault Cloud Unity platform and what makes it unique?
The urgency for a new approach to cyber resilience is clearer than ever. Global cybercrime costs are projected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, and 78% of organizations faced ransomware attacks in the past year. The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 also warns of sharply rising cyber risks in the Middle East, where 42% of organizations globally reported ransomware or phishing incidents, and AI–powered attacks are now a primary concern for nearly half of security leaders. At the same time, AI is transforming how data is created, consumed, and moved, dramatically increasing operational complexity.
Generative and Agentic AI are creating unprecedented volumes of data and introducing new attack vectors, where bad actors can now target or manipulate AI-oriented identities, supply chains, and even the models themselves. Add to that the rise of autonomous machines and models further introduces governance, observability, and data sovereignty challenges. Traditional, siloed security approaches cannot meet the scale and speed required.
This is why we reimagined our platform from the ground up. The result is the Commvault Cloud Unity platform release, a single unifying platform that brings data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience together into one system. It centralizes resilience operations across clouds, regions, on-prem environments, and the edge, enabling a modern and cohesive experience.
Commvault Cloud integrates three core capabilities: Integrated Data Security, protecting data, access, and identities; Identity Resilience, addressing the explosion of AI-driven identities influencing privileges; and Cyber Recovery, enabling clean, confident restoration in an era of fast, sophisticated, identity-led attacks.
Together, these capabilities form the foundation for Resilience Operations (ResOps), where protection, detection, security, and recovery work continuously and intelligently. Ultimately, Commvault Cloud strengthens end-to-end enterprise resilience and helps deliver uninterrupted operations, even as AI accelerates the threat landscape and reshapes digital risk.
How does unifying data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience on a single platform address challenges enterprises face in the AI era?
As cloud and AI adoption accelerate, the biggest challenge enterprises face today is fragmentation. Decentralized environments have led to inconsistent protection policies, limited visibility across multi-cloud and hybrid setups, and an increasing amount of unprotected data sitting across regions and workloads. While 86% of organizations now operate in multi-cloud environments but nearly half of all cloud spend is wasted due to lack of visibility.
Unifying data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience on a single platform directly addresses this problem. Unlike tools that only operate within their own ecosystem, Commvault’s latest platform release, Commvault Cloud Unity, gives cloud teams a single, consolidated view of what is protected and what is at risk, making unprotected data immediately visible.
This unified approach is even more critical in the AI era, where generative and agentic AI create unprecedented volumes of new data. With one central UI, customers can see all their data assets across the multi-cloud and protect both traditional workloads as well as modern AI workloads such as BigQuery, Redshift, and Apache Iceberg on AWS.
Commvault Cloud brings core resilience capabilities together in one platform, offering integrated security with immutable, air-gapped storage, advanced threat scanning that analyzes backups for hidden compromise, and identity resilience to defend against increasingly common attacks on identity systems.
In an AI-driven world where speed and complexity continue to rise, this unified model gives enterprises the clarity, consistency, and control they need to respond faster, reduce downtime, and maintain the availability of trusted data that keeps the business running.
AI is accelerating both data growth and threat complexity. How is Commvault leveraging AI to strengthen enterprise resilience and reduce downtime?
AI is transforming enterprises at extraordinary speed, introducing thousands of intelligent and autonomous agents that make decisions, and sometimes mistakes, with minimal human oversight. This has created a defining challenge in the age of AI: how do organizations remain resilient when both data growth and threat complexity are accelerating at unprecedented rates?
Resilience in the age of AI requires continuously securing data at the source, monitoring for anomalies, and ensuring clean, predictable recovery. This is where Commvault is focused. Our unified approach helps organizations control every identity by accessing data, including autonomous AI agents, while ensuring they can recover rapidly and at massive scale.
We are strengthening resilience by protecting modern AI workloads such as Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, and Apache Iceberg on AWS. We also use AI to enhance the platform itself, including through Arlie, which improves user experience and operational efficiency.
A major advancement is the integration of Satori Cyber into the Commvault Cloud platform. Satori delivers deep visibility into how data flows across the business, and where AI models interact with sensitive information. Sitting inline, it intercepts, inspects, classifies, monitors, and enforces policies before data reaches an LLM, or before an LLM’s output returns to the enterprise. This is essential for AI governance, security, and privacy.
Also, to support safe and responsible data use within AI models, we introduced Commvault Data Rooms, enabling enterprises to securely share governed historical data with platforms such as Snowflake and Microsoft Azure. This enables the right data to reach the right models under the right controls.
Unified resilience also strengthens identity systems through vulnerability assessment, identity-change tracking, anomaly detection, and rapid roll back, reducing disruptions that could otherwise halt business operations.
Synthetic Recovery and Cleanroom Recovery are unique to this platform. How do these technologies improve recovery precision and business continuity?
One of the most exciting advancements in the new Commvault Cloud Unity platform is the introduction of Synthetic Recovery. As part of the broader wave of cyber resilience innovations we’ve added, this capability that uses an AI-enabled process to automatically detect pieces of compromised or suspicious data within a backup, and then surgically remove them during recovery while keeping the “good” data intact. Instead of forcing customers to choose between restoring everything or rolling back too far, Synthetic Recovery intelligently blends the clean, trusted data needed for the most complete and accurate recovery. It dramatically reduces data loss and gives organizations the confidence that what they’re restoring is genuinely safe.
Cleanroom Recovery advances this further with runbook automation capabilities that allow teams to automate the Cleanroom build-out process using specific configurations and settings required to test and validate their recoveries. This creates a secure environment to automate testing and data validation before returning recovered data to production. This shows a complete end-to-end modern recovery workflow in action and allows teams to test their recovery plans in good times, so they are ready when a cyberattack takes place.
Identity systems like Active Directory are increasingly targeted. How does Commvault Cloud Unity help organizations detect, prevent, and recover from identity attacks?
Identity systems have become one of the biggest pressure points in cyber resilience, especially in the AI era. With thousands of autonomous agents now interacting with data, identity services like Active Directory (AD) which determine access across the enterprise, have become invaluable. This also makes them prime targets for attackers – nine out of ten attacks today involve AD in some form.
To help customers stay ahead of identity-driven threats, we expanded our Identity Resilience portfolio within the Commvault Cloud platform, delivering deep visibility, early detection, and rapid recovery across identity environments.
Commvault Cloud continuously detects weaknesses before they escalate. Integrated vulnerability assessment, identity-change tracking, and anomaly detection monitor users, groups, and policies in real time. This gives the IT and security teams an understanding of who made what change, when, and from where, creating a complete audit trail that accelerates diagnosis of suspicious activity. Lastly, if a malicious or unwanted modification is detected, our platform enables instant rollback. Teams can reverse suspicious changes directly from the change log, without searching for recovery points or manually locating objects.
Together, these capabilities form a comprehensive Identity Resilience platform that already supports Active Directory and Entra ID. In a landscape where identity is now one of the most consequential attack vectors, Commvault Cloud delivers a unified, scalable approach to recovery at enterprise scale, so organizations can keep critical business operations moving even when facing identity-driven threats.
With workloads spanning on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, how does the platform simplify protection and governance across multi-cloud infrastructures?
The Commvault Cloud platform centralizes resilience operations across clouds, SaaS, regions, on-premises environments, and edge locations, giving enterprises a single modern, AI-enabled experience to manage recoverability and security. By bringing these disciplines together, organizations gain deeper visibility into protected and unprotected workloads and can make smarter resilience decisions across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
The platform unifies data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery in one place, replacing fragmented and siloed products that were never designed to work together. This consolidation helps reduce operational complexity by allowing teams to track risks, validate data, automate recovery workflows, and maintain consistent protection and governance policies across all production environments.
With integrated capabilities such as AI-enabled discovery and classification, Threat Scan, Synthetic Recovery, and Cleanroom Recovery, our platform provides a seamless and consistent approach to protection and governance across every workload, no matter where it runs.