IT infrastructure protection and rapid data recovery with Commvault

In today's rapidly adopting cloud business environment, cybersecurity is critical, especially with the threat of ransomware. Organisations face enormous costs and complexity due to outdated security methods that often fail to meet the needs of the modern cloud environment. Instead, innovative approaches such as Continuous Business aim to provide continuous availability and preparedness to protect data, provide rapid recovery and ensure real-time business security, especially for those who choose cloud-based solutions.

Embracing continuous security, preparedness and recovery, Continuous Business helps organisations adapt to modern threats while minimising the risk of disruption and cyber breaches.

Overview of the development of cloud solutions for business

Modern cloud technologies are the foundation for efficient and secure business operations, offering the ability to dynamically scale, reduce costs and improve data protection. Among the most popular solutions are Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, which provide tools for managing large amounts of data and integrating with disparate IT systems. And specialised services such as Commvault provide reliable data protection through backup, disaster recovery tools and protection against cyber-attacks, which is especially important in the face of modern cyber threats. Key benefits of cloud-based business solutions:

1. Flexibility and scalability. Clouds can easily adapt to market changes and handle ever-increasing workloads. For example, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud offer on-demand scaling to help you optimise capacity costs.
2. Effective cost management. Cloud-based solutions reduce the need for on-premises resources and infrastructure, lowering hardware and support costs. It also allows organisations to replace capital expenditure with operational expenditure by renting rather than buying resources.
3. High availability and fault tolerance. With high fault tolerance standards, data remains available 24/7 and services are redundant to minimise downtime. Azure and AWS offer automatic data recovery and geographical backup to reduce the risk of data loss.

Commvault. A leader in cloud solutions

Infographic: Commvault

Commvault is a data management and protection leader, providing cloud backup, data encryption and automated disaster recovery. Integration with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud enables organisations to centrally manage data and leverage the benefits of multiple cloud providers. Built with cyber resilience in mind, Commvault Cloud 2.0 combines artificial intelligence, threat detection and response tools to protect all environments and workloads, ensuring the security and continuity of your business.

A brief overview of Commvault solutions

1. Cyber resilience services. Commvault offers a range of solutions to help customers with tactical and strategic cyber resilience:

• Cyber Resilience Assessment. The Commvault Assessment helps you understand your cyber resilience maturity and risks and enables existing customers to align Commvault Cloud capabilities with recommended practices. The Cyber Resilience Assessment includes: an assessment of your organisation's readiness, an analysis of the resilience of Commvault Cloud against business requirements, a prioritised action plan, maturity recommendations and a resilience roadmap. These tools will help you improve your cyber strategy processes.
• Cyber Resilience Guardian Protection. Commvault's Guardian service helps you maintain recovery readiness and stay current with new product enhancements that improve cyber resilience. The protection solution provides: an assessment of your organisation's resilience, regular audits (twice a year) to measure recovery status, identify opportunities for improvement, and recommend practices and a resilience plan. These measures ensure you maintain your recovery capability and increase your cyber resilience maturity.
• Cyber Resilience Guardian Response. Protecting against ransomware or any other emergency requires a rapid response from your IT department. Commvault Cyber Resilience Guardian customers are prepared for any eventuality. Quick access to a dedicated team helps identify problems and begin the process of restoring Commvault cloud backups. The solution provides: an accelerated return to normal business operations, consulting and operational support for faster recovery, and additional support as needed.
• Cleanroom Services. Cyber-attacks have increased significantly in recent years and pose a serious threat to organisations in all industries. Such attacks can result in data leakage, financial loss and reputational damage. A Cleanroom, or Isolated Recovery Environment, is a secure and isolated environment for cyber recovery. Commvault offers Cleanroom services to design, install, test and respond to an attack. With these services, organisations can be confident that Commvault experts will help them prepare a disaster recovery strategy.

• ThreatWise Services. Commvault's Professional Services team provides comprehensive support for the Commvault Cloud and ongoing planning, deployment and configuration of data protection agents for customers using ThreatWise SaaS-based cybersecurity solutions. These services allow you to focus on your core priorities, reduce design and implementation risks, and accelerate time to value from your data protection management platform. Commvault experts work closely with customers' IT departments to understand their critical business requirements and develop optimised solutions.

• Cyber Resilience Managed Services. The Commvault Remote Managed Services team improves data protection by providing cost-effective remote security monitoring and management of the Commvault cloud environment. This allows organisations to maintain full control of data management while receiving clear pricing and service level agreements (SLAs). Commvault engineers focus on optimising results, enabling organisations to focus on their core business activities and effectively execute their data strategies.

2. Software Consulting. Commvault technical consultants ensure that customers' data protection environments are optimally designed and configured:

• Architectural design: help you create a unique environment.
• Implementation: working with your IT team to ensure rapid and risk-free implementation.
• Security Assessment: external assessment of the impact of new data protection requirements.
• Automation and orchestration services: customising the look and feel and automating complex data protection tasks.
• Data Migration: experienced specialists to successfully migrate data to the cloud.
• Residential Services: address a wide range of onsite staffing needs.

3. SaaS Consulting. Commvault technical consultants ensure optimal deployment of your SaaS data protection environment:

• Design and installation: simplify deployment and ensure data protection for your business.

4. Training. Every organisation's data is complex and diverse, but protecting your data with Commvault doesn't have to be. From training videos to certifications, Commvault's training programme provides all the resources you need to achieve complete cyber resilience.

Commvault delivers comprehensive data protection and cyber resilience with a range of features:

1. Mitigate risk and protect hybrid data. Identifies sensitive data and automatically applies appropriate protection to proactively protect sensitive data.
2. Proactive threat detection. Detects malware quarantines suspicious files and creates a clean recovery point.
3. Continuous monitoring and response. Incorporates specialised reporting tools to enable timely threat analysis by the security team.
4. Enhanced fault tolerance and automation. The Metallic® AI platform, powered by AI and ML, enables you to deploy intelligent security solutions in a multi-cloud environment.
5. Improve regulatory compliance. Ensures data integrity, reducing eDiscovery costs and facilitating regulatory compliance.

How cloud solutions can improve data security

Modern cloud solutions such as Commvault significantly improve data security by identifying sensitive information and implementing appropriate security measures. They provide powerful early warning and threat detection mechanisms, enabling organisations to proactively protect their data and AI pipelines. Through automated monitoring systems, user behaviour analysis and integrated encryption technologies, these solutions reduce the risk of data breaches by ensuring secure access and storage of information. This increases the overall level of cybersecurity for the organisation and builds trust with customers and partners.

Data security and risk mitigation benefits from Commvault

• Data monitoring and threat detection. Improves cybersecurity by better understanding data and monitoring cyber threats such as hackers and ransomware.
• Identify and protect sensitive data. Reduces data loss and protects sensitive information, including keys, passwords, and personal data.
• Reduce risk and increase resilience. Adds protection for applications and data, including proactive scanning to detect emerging threats.
• Understand data security configurations. Allows you to easily compare data settings against best practices to reduce risk.
• Advanced data management. Commvault® Cloud gives you visibility and control over your data with automated data governance policies.
• Automate actions across the data lifecycle. Automate data retention policies based on data lifecycle.
• Reduce redundant data. Optimise data volumes and storage costs by eliminating duplicate and unnecessary information.
• Ensure regulatory compliance. Manages access permissions and identifies overly exposed data to improve data protection.
• Reduce storage costs. Archive or delete redundant data to reduce storage costs and improve backup performance.
• Threat analysis and data protection. Provides in-depth analysis of anomalies in files and proactively quarantines or deletes them.

Commvault has been recognised by Gartner® as a leader in backup and recovery software for 13 consecutive years. This status underscores Commvault's ability to deliver cyber resilience in today's hybrid environment by helping to identify threats before they occur.

Leveraging cloud-based solutions such as Commvault significantly improves data security by providing proactive protection mechanisms that enable organisations to effectively manage risk and maintain customer confidence.

Case Study: SriLankan Airlines improves data security with Commvault

Challenge

SriLankan Airlines faced challenges such as:

• Costly data recovery from magnetic tape and slow response to critical security audits.
• The need for a modern data management solution that could meet long-term retention requirements.
• The need to improve backup performance to reduce the burden on the IT team.

Solution

• Implementation of Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery software for rapid data recovery, including Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Database.
• Worked with Commvault partners South Asian Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd and V S Information Systems (Pvt.) Ltd to support the implementation.

Results

• Reduced Microsoft Exchange backup time by up to 64%.
• Increased data management efficiency by 33%.
• Automation of backup and restore ensured timely response to security audits.
• Allowed the IT team to focus on adding value to the business rather than managing tapes.
• Automated long-term data retention in compliance with regulatory requirements.

The implementation of Commvault solutions has significantly improved data security and streamlined backup processes, ensuring business continuity for SriLankan Airlines.

Case Study: Emerson Electric

The challenge:

• Emerson Electric needed an effective data protection strategy to secure its multi-channel hybrid infrastructure and reduce team time.
• The company's dynamic landscape includes regular acquisitions and divestitures, requiring frequent data migrations.
• The need to consolidate multiple data management interfaces.

Solution:

• Using Commvault Cloud HyperScale™ X (HSX), which provides high security, automation and ease of use, and unifies all applications and workloads.
• The company is integrating Commvault solutions into its omnichannel infrastructure, which includes Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and, soon, Amazon Web Services.
• Emerson is strengthening its cyber resilience with Commvault AirGap Protect on OCI and Azure, gaining simplified deployment and infinite scalability.

Results:

• The company has significantly reduced its cloud costs year-over-year.
• The infrastructure services team has more than halved its resource requirements.
• Emerson has consistently achieved data recovery SLAs of up to 98%.
• The company appreciates working with the Commvault team and receiving a high level of support and access to resources.

Since its founding more than 130 years ago, Emerson Electric has made significant strides in industrial automation with 85,500 employees and multiple facilities. Among other benefits, Commvault has helped the company achieve great success in protecting data and reducing the risk of ransomware attacks by implementing cyber resilience solutions.

Integrity Vision: partnering with Commvault

Integrity Vision actively helps its customers ensure reliable data storage and protection using Commvault solutions. Its comprehensive backup, recovery and data management capabilities provide customers with a reliable platform to protect critical information by automating backup and recovery, reducing the risk of data loss and ensuring rapid recovery in the event of a cyber-attack or technical failure.

In addition, as a trusted partner, Integrity Vision implements Commvault cloud solutions, enabling organisations to strengthen information security, reduce costs and improve IT efficiency. With Integrity Vision's support, customers receive a complete integration of Commvault into their IT infrastructure with a focus on continuous protection and long-term data reliability.

Benefits for business

By partnering with Integrity Vision and implementing Commvault solutions, organisations can increase competitiveness through reliable data protection and efficient data management. By automating data protection and recovery processes, organisations can reduce operational risk, ensure regulatory compliance and improve the efficiency of their IT teams. The solution also delivers business benefits through resource optimisation and rapid ROI, allowing organisations to focus on strategic issues and ensure sustainable growth.

Conclusion

Commvault cloud security, integrated with Integrity Vision, provides organisations with strong data protection while maintaining efficiency and agility in a rapidly changing digital environment. These business protection IT solutions enable organisations to adapt to new challenges and risks while improving data security and availability. 

To learn more about implementation options or to schedule a consultation, please contact Integrity Vision at info@integrity.com.ua.