NetApp, Commvault advance cyber resilience

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, and Commvault, which provides unified resilience at enterprise scale, have partnered to deliver an integrated solution for enterprise data protection and cyber resilience. 

“This alliance reinforces NetApp and Commvault’s leadership in the rapidly evolving cyber resilience and data protection market,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp.

“Together we’re helping customers make their infrastructure intelligent and secure so they have the confidence that their data is always available, protected, and recoverable—no matter where it lives—while expanding our joint go-to-market reach and driving growth in a high-demand segment.” 

The alliance combines Commvault’s resilience, protection, and recovery capabilities with NetApp’s enterprise-grade data platform with built-in intelligence and AI-driven ransomware detection. The solution enables resilience, security, and rapid recovery for customers across on-premises and cloud environments, giving organisations confidence that their data is always available, immutable, and recoverable.

Enterprises are re-architecting their cyber resilience strategies for an AI-driven world where unstructured, mission-critical data is growing at an unprecedented scale, NetApp explained. As analytics, AI, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads surge, recovery from ransomware and cyberthreats must be rapid, automated, and inherently secure. Resilience at scale is now foundational to ensure compliance support, operational continuity, and competitive advantage.

“Organisations often detect cyberattacks like ransomware too late, after they have spread across primary systems and backups, leading to a larger blast radius, extended downtime, and missed recovery time objectives,” said Gagan Gulati, Senior VP and GM of Data Services at NetApp. 

“The alliance between Commvault and NetApp enables customers to further defend and recover from ransomware attacks in real-time, support compliance requirements, and help ensure business continuity across hybrid environments. By combining proven resilience and built-in detection and response capabilities, our joint customers can have the peace of mind that their data is available, protected and recoverable no matter where it lives.” 

NetApp and Commvault are delivering a closed-loop recovery architecture that combines early ransomware detection signals with an automated, validated recovery workflow at scale. This approach can streamline recovery point objectives (RPOs) and help organisations embrace a resilience operations (ResOps) strategy for a more proactive defence against cyberattacks. 

By integrating NetApp’s AI-powered Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) capability on primary storage integrated with Commvault’s threat-aware backup and Synthetic Recovery, organisations can minimise data loss, accelerate complete recoveries, and regain operational confidence. Additionally, the joint offering can help customers realise shorter rollback windows and improved data preservation with a faster return to operations and lower downtime costs.

Future joint innovation will include leveraging NetApp ONTAP restore technology as the target to further reduce data loss and significantly improve recovery speed. 

“The first step in building cyber resilience in your organisation is the ability to recover with trust and speed,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault. 

“Together Commvault and NetApp detect potential attacks close to the data and make trusted recovery decisions to quickly, cleanly, and completely restore data at scale. Our joint customers will be able to innovate with confidence that their data and their business can be resilient in the face of disruption.”