Commvault announced advancements to Cloud Rewind, expanding Microsoft Azure resource coverage for configuration protection and recovery. Through this expansion, Commvault is helping organisations 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 organisations 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.[1]
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. Organisations can also validate recovery readiness through application recovery simulations, including within isolated, air-gapped environments, before an incident occurs.
“Across the UAE, organisations 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 organisations 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 Centre 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 organisations recover cloud applications through a unified experience in Commvault Cloud, increasing customers’ confidence in their ability to recover following a cyberattack or outage.”
“Many organisations 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, organisations need an effective way to rapidly recover, with restoration capabilities across configurations, dependencies, and multiple cloud platforms.”
[1] Absolute Security. (2026, January 8). Cyber Incidents and Attacks Disrupt Enterprise Business Operations for Two Weeks, Reveals First Comprehensive Global Cyber Resilience Survey [Press release]. https://www.absolute.com/press-releases/cyber-incidents-and-attacks-disrupt-enterprise-business-operations-for-two-weeks-reveals-first-comprehensive-global-cyber-resilience-survey
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