{"id":138,"date":"2025-10-03T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:36:06","slug":"rewinding-the-cloud-how-commvault-cloud-rewind-reinvents-cyber-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/rewinding-the-cloud-how-commvault-cloud-rewind-reinvents-cyber-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewinding the Cloud: How Commvault Cloud Rewind Reinvents Cyber Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In today\u2019s cloud-first world, disaster recovery and ransomware protection can no longer be limited to \u201cjust data.\u201d You need a solution that captures both data and the full cloud application environment and<\/strong> can restore them in a way that gets your business back in motion\u2014quickly and cleanly. Commvault\u2019s Cloud Rewind<\/strong> does exactly that: it provides a \u201ccloud time machine\u201d for your applications, enabling near instantaneous rebuilds of cloud environments after an outage or attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Is Cloud Rewind?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Commvault Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix) is a SaaS solution that automatically discovers, protects, and restores<\/strong> entire cloud application environments across public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google) rather than just individual VMs or data. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • It goes beyond standard backups by capturing not only data, but also cloud configurations, metadata, dependencies, and infrastructure settings<\/strong> (e.g. networks, load balancers, IAM, serverless functions). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Those captured states are stored in isolated, immutable, \u201cair-gapped\u201d vaults<\/strong> controlled by Commvault, providing protection from tampering or ransomware spread. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • On recovery, Cloud Rewind uses Recovery-as-Code \/ Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)<\/strong> techniques to orchestrate a point-in-time rebuild of whole cloud stacks\u2014even across availability zones, regions, or accounts. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • This rebuild capability drastically compresses what could otherwise be days or weeks of manual reconstruction. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Why It Matters: The Challenge of Cloud Recovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    • In typical cloud deployments, 50\u201370% of \u201cresources\u201d are configurations, interconnections, and dependencies<\/strong>, not just raw data. Many traditional backup tools ignore these, leaving gaps in recovery. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Following a cyberattack or outage, reconstructing the full cloud environment can take weeks and require manual effort across multiple teams. Commvault cites a common statistic: full restoration can span 24 days<\/strong> in many organizations. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Maintaining a parallel \u201clanding zone\u201d or duplicate cloud environment for disaster recovery (with constant synchronization) is expensive and error-prone because of configuration drift<\/strong> and overhead. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • In contrast, Cloud Rewind\u2019s on-demand rebuild model<\/strong> avoids the need for a constantly maintained DR environment. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Key Capabilities & Differentiators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
      Capability<\/th>Description \/ Benefit<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
      Continuous Discovery & Mapping<\/strong><\/td>Automatically detects all resources, dependencies, and changes in your cloud environment over time. <\/td><\/tr>
      Dual-Vault Architecture (\u201cCloud Time Machine\u201d)<\/strong><\/td>Splits configuration snapshots and application data into separate vaults to ensure isolation and integrity. <\/td><\/tr>
      Point-in-Time Rebuilds<\/strong><\/td>Trigger a full restore of the application stack\u2014including infrastructure, dependencies, networking, and policies\u2014from a chosen past moment. C<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
      Cross-Zone \/ Cross-Region \/ Cross-Account Recovery<\/strong><\/td>Flexibility to restore workloads across different regions, AZs, or even accounts. <\/td><\/tr>
      Automated Orchestration via IaC \/ Recovery-as-Code<\/strong><\/td>No manual scripts or runbooks needed\u2014recovery is codified and repeatable. <\/td><\/tr>
      Frequent Incrementals, Immutable & Isolated Storage<\/strong><\/td>Supports near-continuous recovery (tight RPOs) with backups stored in untouchable vaults. <\/td><\/tr>
      Cloud-agnostic \/ Multi-cloud Support<\/strong><\/td>Works across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, providing a unified resilience layer. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Real-World Use & Benefits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      • After a cyber event, Cloud Rewind enables you to \u201crewind the business\u201d<\/strong>\u2014restoring to a clean point in time without needing to rebuild from scratch manually. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Commvault claims 276\u00d7 reduction in recovery time<\/strong>, 99.9% cloud application resilience SLAs, and up to 85% reduction in application resilience costs<\/strong> (vs. legacy or native tools). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Users can simulate recovery or test changes in a safe sandbox environment using an exact clone of the application stack. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Because you don\u2019t need a parallel standby environment, overall infrastructure cost and operational burden are lower. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • It helps reduce human error, speed time to recovery, and improve overall cyber resiliency posture. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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        Potential Considerations & Challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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        • As with any system that holds full access to your cloud environment, permissions and access control<\/strong> must be managed carefully. The product requires certain permissions to discover, snapshot, and rebuild resources. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Determining a \u201csafe point in time\u201d<\/strong> to restore to\u2014especially in the presence of dwell time (i.e. undetected compromise)\u2014requires complementary tools (e.g. threat detection or anomaly detection) to identify the last known good state. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • For highly complex environments with rapid, large-scale changes, ensuring consistent mapping and dependency capture may be non-trivial.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • The cost model (storage, snapshot usage, compute during recovery) will depend on usage patterns and frequency of recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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          In a cloud-native, security-conscious era, recovering just data is no longer sufficient<\/strong>. You also need to restore the full operational context \u2014 the infrastructure, network, configurations, and dependencies \u2014 in a way that returns business operations quickly and cleanly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Commvault Cloud Rewind offers that next-generation capability: a cloud-native \u201ctime machine\u201d that enables businesses to rewind, recover, and rebuild<\/strong> entire application environments in minutes\u2014not days or weeks. It shifts disaster recovery from being reactive and manual to being automated, predictable, and fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          In today\u2019s cloud-first world, disaster recovery and ransomware protection can no longer be limited to \u201cjust data.\u201d You need a solution that captures both data and the full cloud application environment and can restore them in a way that gets your business back in motion\u2014quickly and cleanly. Commvault\u2019s Cloud Rewind does exactly that: it provides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-protection-cyber-resilience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgnabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}