Commvault launches Recovery Studio for business recovery

Commvault has launched Recovery Studio, a product designed to orchestrate business service recovery beyond data restoration.

The software uses automated runbooks to restore applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies and datasets in sequence. It is aimed at organisations seeking to reduce the manual work involved in recovering complex systems after operational failures, disasters or cyber attacks.

Recovery Studio brings together recovery layers that are often managed separately. The platform is intended to rebuild complete business services by coordinating containers, virtual machines, files, objects, identity systems, application settings, infrastructure configurations, and network and security controls.

The launch reflects a broader shift in cyber resilience and business continuity planning, as companies place more emphasis on restoring working operations rather than simply retrieving data. In cloud and hybrid environments, restoring a database or application file set is often not enough if connected identity, network and configuration elements remain unavailable or compromised.

The software also builds threat scanning into recovery workflows for supported resources. This is intended to help organisations identify compromised areas before returning services to production.

Recovery focus

Commvault positions the product as a single platform for recovery scenarios including operational outages, disaster recovery events and cyber recovery. The same runbooks can be used to automate infrastructure rebuilds, workload recovery and the security settings needed to bring services back online.

Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology & AI Officer at Commvault, described the launch as a break from manual recovery methods. "This is the DevOps moment for recovery," Ahlawat said. "Recovery Studio replaces spreadsheets and war rooms with one orchestrated flow, from in-place to cleanroom, that brings the whole business back in the right order, including identities and cloud configurations."

Commvault linked the product to the growing complexity of enterprise estates, where a single application may depend on multiple infrastructure, identity and configuration layers. Large organisations may need to restore hundreds of applications and thousands of identities in the correct order, slowing recovery when teams rely on fragmented tools and manual coordination.

The company cited an average recovery period of 28 days to reach even a minimal level of operation under conventional approaches. It used that figure to underline the operational risk posed by prolonged outages in environments where business processes are increasingly automated.

Customer view

B&G Foods Chief Information Officer Chris Cola said the approach could change how companies handle service restoration after a disruption. "This type of meaningful innovation can truly reshape how work gets done and how services are restored following a disruption," Cola said. "And, with the security checks that are built into the automated workflows, that elevates confidence levels that what we're restoring is trusted and ready to return to production."

Industry analysts also pointed to the challenge of recovering modern cloud-based applications. These systems often require not just data restoration but also the return of infrastructure, network settings and identity configurations that support application access and operation.

Johnny Yu, Research Manager at IDC, said the product addresses that issue by combining different recovery tasks in one place. "For cloud-based applications, recovery must include infrastructure, network, and identity configurations as well as the data, files, and objects," Yu said. "Commvault's offering addresses the complexity of full application revival by allowing organizations to build and validate recovery runbooks for different applications and scenarios in a unified hub."

APAC context

For businesses in Australia and New Zealand, Commvault said the pressure is on to decide recovery priorities before an incident occurs. The company argues that preparation matters as much as the technical act of restoration, particularly where systems are tightly interconnected and service outages can quickly affect wider operations.

Martin Creighan, Vice President for APAC at Commvault, said recovery planning needs to be in place before disruption occurs. "If your recovery plan kicks in after the attack, you're already late. Across ANZ, businesses can't afford to spend days figuring out what comes back first and what depends on what. Recovery has to be ready before disruption hits, because the only outcome that matters is whether the business comes back," Creighan said.

Recovery Studio is targeted for early access in December, with general availability planned in the coming months. Pricing will be based on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery.