Commvault is expanding Cloud Rewind with significantly broader support for Microsoft Azure, helping organizations more quickly recover complete cloud applications, including data, infrastructure, configurations and dependencies, after cyberattacks and disruptions.
Commvault is strengthening its commitment to cyber resilience by expanding the capabilities of Cloud Rewind. A key part of the update is greatly expanded support for Microsoft Azure, where the platform will now be able to protect and recover more of the resources that modern cloud applications depend on.
According to Commvault, the scope of Azure protection is tripled and will cover 62 percent of the Azure resource types relevant to enterprise environments. 
The goal is to enable organizations to more quickly recover not only data, but entire application environments after, for example, cyberattacks and major operational disruptions.
Recovery requires more than backed up data
Modern cloud applications often consist of a large number of interconnected components. Data is only part of the environment. Infrastructure, configurations, cloud services, and dependencies must also be in place to get a mission-critical application back up and running.
Manually building such environments after an incident can be both time-consuming and complex.
According to 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience, as Commvault cites, 57 percent of companies in the survey stated that recovery from a cyberattack took an average of more than 4.5 days.
Cloud Rewind is designed to reduce this complexity by continuously identifying cloud resources, mapping dependencies between applications, and automating the recovery of the components required for applications to function.
This means that organizations can restore applications along with the infrastructure, configurations, and dependencies they need.
Azure protection triples
The expanded Azure integration is one of the biggest changes in Cloud Rewind.
Commvault states that protection is tripling and will cover 62 percent of Azure resource types relevant to enterprise environments.
Organizations also have the opportunity to simulate the recovery of applications before a real incident occurs.
Recovery tests can be performed in isolated environments, including air-gapped environments, allowing IT and security teams to verify that recovery plans are working without impacting the production environment.
Allcargo uses Cloud Rewind for faster recovery
For global operations, even short interruptions can have major consequences.
Allcargo Group, which operates in global logistics, uses Cloud Rewind to be able to recover more than just individual files.
Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, SVP and Global Head of IT Infrastructure & Cloud at Allcargo Group Companies, describes how every minute of downtime can impact both supply chains and customer confidence.
With Cloud Rewind, the company can restore its operational environment within hours, rather than just restoring files, according to Nagandla.
The example also illustrates a broader shift in cyber resilience. The ability to recover data is still central, but for mission-critical systems, the ability to quickly recover the entire application environment is becoming increasingly important.
Data and cloud configuration are collected in the same recovery
Commvault also deepens the integration between Cloud Rewind and the company's existing backup and recovery capabilities.
Through so-called Protection Groups, application data and cloud configurations can be collected in a common, isolated recovery process.
IT teams can thus plan and execute recovery from one place, instead of combining several separate tools and processes.
It can be especially relevant in larger cloud environments where a large number of resources and services are dependent on each other.
Automated protection for dynamic cloud environments
Cloud Rewind also gains more advanced policy capabilities for organizations with large and rapidly changing cloud environments.
Policy-based protection can automatically include identified resources based on, for example, tags, region, and resource type.
The feature works across multiple cloud environments through a common workflow.
This means that organizations do not need to manually add each new cloud resource to protection, which can reduce administration as the infrastructure continuously changes.
Focus shifts towards restoring the entire application
The development reflects a broader shift in cybersecurity and continuity planning.
As corporate applications become more distributed and dependent on multiple cloud services, it is not always enough to know that information is backed up.
Organizations also need to know how quickly the entire application can be restored and whether all necessary dependencies are included in the recovery plan.
Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault, highlights that modern applications depend on interconnected cloud services, infrastructure and configurations that must be able to be recovered together.
Cloud Rewind will therefore provide organizations with a common environment for recovering cloud applications within Commvault Cloud.
The recovery plan must be in place before the attack occurs
Melinda Marks, Senior Research Director and Chief Analyst at Omdia, also highlights a common problem: organizations sometimes only discover after an incident that the recovery plan is not complete.
As applications and associated cloud resources become more complex, the need to be able to test recovery in advance increases.
It is no longer just a question of whether the data can be recovered, but if how quickly the entire digital business can function again.
For CIOs, CISOs and IT managers, this development means that recovery capability is becoming an increasingly important part of the organization's overall cyber resilience.
Availability
Cloud Rewind is available as an add-on feature in Commvault Cloud for cloud application protection and application-centric recovery.
The extended Azure protection is planned to be available in the coming months.
Pricing is based on the number of cloud resources protected.
About Commvault
Commvault is a global cyber resilience, data protection and recovery company. Commvault Cloud brings together data security, identity resilience and cyber recovery in a cloud-based and AI-powered platform.
The company also develops solutions to help organizations protect AI-related data and environments and strengthen resilience against new types of AI-driven cyberattacks.
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