Home Learn Cloud Rewind Meet Cloud Rewind: Commvault’s Cloud-Native Resilience Solution Learn challenges of cloud recovery and how they can be addressed with the Commvault Cloud Rewind cloud-native security platform. Request demo Cloud Rewind Overview Cloud-first Strategy Definition Features Impact on Cloud Resilience Related Terms Resources Overview Recover, Rebuild Cloud-Native Applications Quickly Following Cyber Events As organizations embrace cloud-native applications, their security needs change dramatically. It’s not just a matter of protecting the data stored in cloud environments. To enable cyber resilience following an operational misconfiguration or ransomware attack, you’ve also got to be able to recover and rebuild the applications and dependencies distributed across your cloud architecture. That’s a much more difficult requirement to meet – but without it, your entire cloud-first operations are at risk. We’ll discuss the challenges of cloud recovery and how they can be addressed using the Commvault Cloud Rewind cloud-native security platform. Cloud-first Strategy What Is a Cloud-first Strategy, and What Does it Mean for Security? The cloud has quickly become the application deployment environment of choice for modern IT organizations. While some businesses will continue to host certain legacy systems on-premises, and may even deploy a few new services locally, most new applications will be delivered in the cloud unless there’s a good reason not to. As part of this cloud-first strategy, organizations typically adopt cloud-native application development. Rather than being coded monolithically, applications are built from a complex ecosystem of technologies such as virtual machines, containers, networks, subnets, security groups, secondary storage, and serverless functions. Designed to capitalize on both the dynamic nature of cloud resources and the speed of agile practices like DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), cloud-native deployment dramatically increases agility and velocity. However, it also greatly complicates security. Traditional backup tools and practices typically focus on safeguarding virtual machines and some aspects of storage. While these are important elements of disaster recovery, they fall far short of what’s needed to restore intricately assembled and interconnected cloud-native applications. The increased vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that can come with cloud-native deployment further heighten the risk to continuous business. This brings us to cloud-native security platforms, a new category of solutions that address the security challenges of a cloud-first strategy head-on. By enabling an integrated approach to discover, protect, recover, and rebuild applications and data within cloud environments, cloud-native platforms help maintain cyber resilience when cloud-based threats strike. definition What Is Commvault Cloud Rewind? Following an operational misconfiguration outage, ransomware or malware attack, continuous business depends on restoring operations to their most recent known good state as quickly as possible. For cloud-native applications powered by a constantly changing ecosystem of ephemeral resources and auto-scaled services, the first challenge is to know exactly what that state looks like. The second challenge is to rebuild it. As a cloud-native security platform, Commvault Cloud Rewind simplifies and accelerates cloud disaster recovery with an automated system to inventory, back up, and restore entire cloud environments, including applications and their dependencies. By working with other Commvault solutions to identify safe restore points, the solution verifies that recovery occurs from a clean state free of malicious activity. To avoid the need for a complex and time-consuming rebuild process, Cloud Rewind continuously discovers and maps dependencies within cloud environments, including data as well as configuration settings and application relationships. Application system data is protected through immutable backups stored at diverse locations, including air-gapped locations separate from production environments. In a cloud disaster recovery scenario, organizations can use these dependency maps in tandem with data backups to restore the entire cloud estate with a single click and resume normal operations. Beyond its role in cloud backup and recovery operations, Cloud Rewind also reduces the risks associated with agile development by allowing developers and IT teams to test changes and updates to the cloned environment without risking the integrity of the live environment. KEY FEATURES Key Features of Commvault Cloud Rewind As a comprehensive solution to enhance cyber resilience and streamline recovery processes for cloud-based resources, Cloud Rewind delivers integrated features, including: • Cloud discovery and dependency mapping – Cloud Rewind automatically identifies and catalogs all cloud-based application components in use and captures complete configuration settings, dependencies, and infrastructure details to facilitate a faster and more efficient rebuild after an incident. • Drift analysis – Continuous drift analysis keeps security teams informed about any deviations from expected configurations to help them make sure that restored systems align with their secure states. • Automated daily cloud rebuilds – Automated recovery testing enables organizations to revert to a safe state quickly and without errors. Cloud Rewind can rebuild entire cloud infrastructures, applications, and data using on-demand environments, then delete these resources afterward to reduce testing costs. • Sandboxed cloud spaces – Organizations automatically can create sandboxed cloud spaces for cyber threat scanning, forensic analysis, or fault injection testing without affecting production. • Integrated cyber recovery – Cloud Rewind integrates with Commvault’s broader data resilience capabilities for a cohesive approach to cloud recovery. IMPACT on Cloud Resilience The Impact of Commvault Cloud Rewind on Cloud Resilience The experience of a top U.S. mortgage lender shows the difference Cloud Rewind can make for cloud recovery readiness. Following the company’s adoption of a cloud-first strategy, its cloud resources expanded to encompass a constantly changing ecosystem of more than 16,000 assets. Like many organizations, the company previously had dealt with downtime for critical applications due to a variety of internal and cloud provider issues. Meeting a mandated recovery time objective (RTO) of four hours posed a major challenge. With the help of Cloud Rewind, the company now quickly can recover key applications and data across its AWS environments, achieving a 15-minute recovery-point objective (RPO) for business-critical application data. The operations team has eliminated complex technical cloud disaster recovery plans that rebuilt the dependencies of their systems and infrastructure using manual processes. Instead, the entire environment can be recovered automatically using on-demand cloud environments. This approach can help organizations across a broad range of industries strengthen their cloud disaster recovery capability and cyber resilience: • Financial services – In a sector where data integrity and compliance are essential, Cloud Rewind helps organizations meet stringent regulatory requirements while minimizing downtime for real-time financial systems. • Healthcare – Rapid recoverability of electronic health records (EHR) and other critical applications helps prevent disruption of patient care during a cyber incident. Automated recovery testing helps providers maintain compliance with regulations like HIPAA by regularly verifying that their data protection measures are effective. • Education – As cloud-based digital learning platforms and student information systems become increasingly common, Cloud Rewind provides a safety net against the loss of courseware, student data, and other resources. • Retail – For retail businesses that rely on cloud-based systems for inventory management and e-commerce, Cloud Rewind enables a quick recovery from outages or cyberattacks to minimize revenue loss during critical sales periods. • Manufacturing – Companies using cloud services for supply chain management can quickly restore operational data and applications to keep production on schedule and maintain supply chain integrity. Cloud-first strategies and cloud-native applications have radically refactored the requirements for disaster recovery. As a cloud-native security platform, Commvault Cloud Rewind updates backup and recovery for modern cloud-first businesses. Related Terms What is Cyber Resilience? Cyber resilience refers to an organization’s ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse cyber conditions. Unlike traditional cybersecurity, which focuses primarily on prevention, cyber resilience takes a holistic approach. Learn more What is Cloud Storage? Cloud storage describes an IT infrastructure deployment model where storage resources reside in the cloud instead of being housed in data centers on-premises. Learn more What is Continuous Data Protection? Continuous data protection enables all changes to be documented and minimizes data loss following cyberattacks, outages, or failures. 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