Commvault is introducing Recovery Studio, a solution that, according to the company, orchestrates the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure and data in a single workflow. You define the recovery sequence in a runbook, in which you can also include automated threat scans. Early access starts in December, with global availability to follow in the months thereafter.
Commvault states that Recovery Studio goes beyond restoring data. According to the company, the solution coordinates the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies and datasets. As a user, you configure a runbook that runs as an automated workflow, carrying out the recovery steps in a defined order.
Commvault positions the product as an alternative to manual recovery processes. At large organisations, the company says, this can involve hundreds of applications and thousands of identities that need to be restored in the correct order together with the underlying configurations and data. In its own State of the Data Readiness and Cyber Resilience Report 2025, Commvault reports that recovery using conventional methods takes at least 28 days on average.
Recovery of the full stack
According to Commvault, Recovery Studio uses the runbook to reconstruct and validate the interconnected components of an environment. These include containers, virtual machines, files and objects. Identity systems, application and infrastructure configurations, and network and security settings also fall within the scope of the recovery process.
Threat scans in the runbook
Within the runbook, you can activate automated threat scans for supported IT assets. Commvault says this allows you to identify compromised environments and make recovery decisions before services go back into production. The company does not specify exactly which assets are supported.
One platform for multiple scenarios
Recovery Studio is intended for cyber recovery, operational recovery and disaster recovery. According to Commvault, the runbooks automate the rebuilding of infrastructure, the recovery of workloads and the coordination of security mechanisms, such as firewall rules, groups and network security settings.
Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology & AI Officer at Commvault, calls the launch the DevOps moment for recovery processes. According to Ahlawat, the solution replaces spreadsheets and war rooms with a single orchestrated workflow, from in-place recovery to recovery within cleanrooms. Business processes are restored in the correct order, including identities and cloud configurations, he states.
Chris Cola, Vice President Information Technology and CIO at customer B&G Foods, says the security checks built into the workflows give his organisation greater confidence that only assets that can reliably be put into production are restored. Johnny Yu, Research Manager at IDC, points out that recovering cloud applications must encompass not only infrastructure, network and identity configurations, but also data, files and objects. According to Yu, the solution enables organisations to configure and validate recovery runbooks for multiple applications and scenarios from one central location.
Availability and pricing
Recovery Studio will be available through early access in December. According to Commvault’s planning, global availability will follow in the months thereafter. Pricing will be based on the amount of data you configure for orchestrated recovery. Commvault will provide further details on the product during its online event SHIFT Virtual on 18 November.
The full report can be read via State of the Data Readiness and Cyber Resilience Report 2025.
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