Broadened Azure resource coverage helps regional organizations recover more complete cloud-native and AI-driven applications following cyberattacks and outages
August, 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced advancements to Cloud Rewind, expanding Microsoft Azure resource coverage for configuration protection and recovery. Through this expansion, Commvault is helping organizations more rapidly restore cloud applications and the resources that support them.
The enhancement lands as UAE enterprises face intensifying pressure to recover at speed. The UAE Cyber Security Council has reported the country absorbing close to 800,000 cyberattacks per day, and the window between a vulnerability becoming public and being actively exploited has collapsed from around 23 days in 2025 to barely a day in 2026, according to PwC. The threat is also being amplified by AI, among UAE organizations hit by ransomware, 83% said AI made the attack more effective, according to Proofpoint’s 2026 AI-Era Ransomware Report.
Manually rebuilding environments is often slow, complex, and error-prone. According to Absolute Security’s 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience report, 57% of enterprises said recovery from a cyberattack took more than 4.5 days on average.
Cloud Rewind addresses this by continuously discovering cloud resources, mapping application dependencies, and orchestrating the recovery and rebuild of cloud applications, including the infrastructure, configurations, and dependencies they need to operate, from a single platform. This expansion broadens Azure protection by 3X, now covering 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types available in the market. Organizations can also validate recovery readiness through application recovery simulations, including within isolated, air-gapped environments, before an incident occurs.
“Across the UAE, organizations are no longer asking whether they will face an attack, but how quickly they can recover when one lands,” said Fady Richmany, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Emerging Markets at Commvault. “Modern applications are only as resilient as the cloud infrastructure beneath them. By expanding Cloud Rewind’s Azure coverage, we are giving regional organizations a faster, more complete path back to full operations where the environment of their business runs on. It’s a capability that directly supports the national resilience agenda we are advancing alongside the UAE Cyber Security Council through our Innovation Center of Excellence in Abu Dhabi.”
Additional enhancements include:
- Deeper integration into Commvault backup and recovery: Protection Groups unite application data and cloud configuration into a single, air-gapped recovery experience, so teams can plan and execute recovery from one place instead of stitching together separate tools.
- More advanced policies for dynamic at-scale protection: Policy-based protection automatically enrolls discovered resources by tag, region, and type across multiple cloud environments, using a single workflow, so teams can protect resources at cloud scale instead of onboarding them one at a time.
“Modern applications depend on interconnected cloud services, infrastructure, and configurations that must be recovered together,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. “Cloud Rewind helps organizations recover cloud applications through a unified experience in Commvault Cloud, increasing customers’ confidence in their ability to recover following a cyberattack or outage.”
“Many organizations discover their recovery plan is incomplete only after an incident has occurred,” said Melinda Marks, Senior Research Director and Chief Analyst, Omdia. “As applications and their associated cloud resources become more complex, organizations need an effective way to rapidly recover, with restoration capabilities across configurations, dependencies, and multiple cloud platforms.”
Availability and Pricing:
Cloud Rewind, available today, is delivered as an add-on workload within Commvault Cloud for cloud application protection and app-centric recovery. Expanded Azure protection is targeted for availability in the coming months. Pricing is metered based on protected cloud resources.
About Commvault:
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale. In a constantly evolving threat landscape, Commvault keeps customers ready by unifying data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery, on one cloud-native, AI-enabled platform. Customers trust Commvault to conduct the fastest, most complete recoveries – not just their data, but their entire business. Purpose-built for the agentic enterprise, Commvault also enables organizations to safely embrace AI while protecting against AI-driven threats.
