Commvault announces Cleanroom Recovery offering with higher capabilities

Commvault has announced highly differentiated capabilities with its Cleanroom Recovery offering that usher in a new era in end-to-end recovery following cyberattacks.

Studies show that it takes enterprises 24 days, on average, to recover after a cyber-incident.  Much of that time is not only spent recovering the data, but the infrastructure – databases, applications, and operating systems – that power and run the data. Commvault accelerates the infrastructure recovery process by bringing what’s called “Factory Reset” to the company’s Cleanroom Recovery technology.

With Factory Reset, which is generally available today, after an attack takes place, companies can rapidly restore their infrastructure within a cleanroom, using a pre-defined, validated, clean image, and, unlike traditional resets, offers a customizable recovery point-in-time. This advancement, which is also referred to as “pave / repave,” is significant for a few reasons. First, companies don’t have to worry about restoring infrastructure that’s tainted by ransomware. The image is hardened and verified in advance. Second, once the infrastructure is restored, organizations can quickly rehydrate those systems with data, helping to speed up the overall recovery process. Third, with Factory Reset, administrators can focus on validating recovered data in the cleanroom instead of worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

Commvault is not just focused on recovering clean infrastructure, but clean data after a cyberattack. This is why Commvault is also bringing its threat scanning capabilities to Cleanroom Recovery. With Commvault Cloud Threat Scan, organizations can scan their recovered data in a cleanroom as another way of making sure their data is clean. This gives security and IT teams an added layer of confidence and can help enterprises remain in a state of continuous business after bad actors strike.

As more and more companies determine what’s required to be minimally viable following an attack, managed service providers (MSPs) are also focused on helping enterprises be resilient. Commvault is now extending the power of Cleanroom Recovery to MSPs so that they can offer this technology to their customers.

These advancements with Cleanroom Recovery build on previously announced capabilities that empower enterprises to advance resilience. For example, with Cleanroom Recovery organizations have the ability to rapidly and regularly test and, if necessary, retest their cyber recovery plans with ease across their IT infrastructure. Additionally, AI-enabled Cleanpoint Validation automatically empowers customers to rapidly identify the last clean recovery point. And, with Cleanroom Recovery, users can customize recovery sequences, so data is recovered in a logical order.

“When we built Cleanroom Recovery, we intentionally architected it as a cloud-native solution to fundamentally change how organizations approach recovery — not just after an incident, but proactively through automated, high-frequency testing,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault. “Unlike traditional approaches, cloud-based cleanrooms enable customers to spin up multiple isolated recovery environments in parallel, without concerns around compromised firmware or underlying hardware. And we’re not stopping at data recovery — we’re doubling down on infrastructure recovery, automation, and orchestration. As threat actors become more sophisticated, we’re helping our customers stay ahead with aggressive innovation and operational resilience at scale.”