NetApp Strengthens Enterprise-Grade Security Through Strategic Partnership with Commvault

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), an intelligent data infrastructure company, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in enterprise-scale integrated cyber resilience, to provide powerful, integrated solutions that enhance enterprise-grade data security and cyber resilience.

This solution provides peace of mind to customers by ensuring cyber resilience, security, and rapid recovery in on-premises and cloud environments, while maintaining the constant availability, recoverability, and immutability of data.

Companies are currently restructuring their cyber resilience strategies to adapt to an AI-driven world. With the rapid expansion of analytics, AI, video, and IoT-related workloads, unstructured and mission-critical data is growing at an unprecedented scale. In such an environment, reactive approaches to cyber resilience are insufficient. Recovery from ransomware and other cyber threats requires speed, automation, and security from the ground up. Furthermore, for enterprise-scale cyber resilience, supporting compliance, business continuity, and competitive advantage is no longer an option, but an essential requirement.

This partnership addresses the critical need to scale cyber resilience through integrated cyber threat detection and rapid recovery from attacks. By combining Commvault's industry-leading cyber resilience, protection, and recovery capabilities with NetApp's intelligent enterprise data platform and AI-driven ransomware detection, a highly differentiated, end-to-end cyber resilience solution is realized.

Closed-Loop Recovery Architecture with "NetApp ONTAP® Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP/AI)"

Through this partnership, NetApp and Commvault will jointly provide a "closed-loop recovery architecture" that combines early ransomware detection with automated and validated recovery workflows at enterprise scale. This approach helps optimize Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and enables the realization of a "Resilience Operations (ResOps)" strategy that is more proactive against cyber threats.

By implementing NetApp's AI-powered "NetApp ONTAP® Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP/AI)" on primary storage and integrating it with Commvault's threat-aware backup and Synthetic Recovery, customers can achieve rapid and reliable recovery while minimizing data loss. This supports stable system operations even in critical situations. Furthermore, this solution contributes to faster business resumption and reduced downtime costs by shortening rollback times and improving data integrity.

Moving forward, the companies will pursue joint development to further reduce data loss and improve recovery speeds by utilizing NetApp ONTAP restore technology as a recovery destination.

Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer (CTO & CAIO) at Commvault, stated: "The first step in building cyber resilience in an organization is the ability to recover with reliability and speed. Through our partnership with NetApp, we can detect threats lurking near data at an early stage and, through reliable recovery decisions, achieve rapid, clean, and complete data recovery even in large-scale environments. Customers can innovate with confidence, knowing that their data and business cyber resilience will be maintained under any disruptive circumstances."

Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at NetApp, stated: "This partnership further strengthens the leadership of Commvault and NetApp in the rapidly evolving cyber resilience and data protection market. Through this agreement, both companies will intelligently and securely enhance our customers' infrastructure, providing peace of mind that data is always available, protected, and recoverable, no matter where it resides. At the same time, we will further advance our go-to-market strategies and accelerate growth in areas where high demand is expected."

Gagan Gulati, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Services at NetApp, stated: "In many organizations, detection of threats such as ransomware is delayed, and it is often discovered only after damage has spread throughout the primary environment and backups. This leads to risks such as expanded damage, long downtime, and failure to meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Through our partnership with Commvault, customers can strengthen real-time defense and recovery against ransomware, ensuring business continuity across hybrid environments while meeting compliance requirements. By combining proven cyber resilience mechanisms with built-in threat detection and response capabilities, we guarantee that data is always available, protected, and recoverable, wherever it exists."

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