Commvault has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, focusing on enhancing AI and cyber resilience as enterprises intensify their movement to cloud-based solutions. This partnership aims to bolster security and scalability for AI applications while addressing the increasingly complex landscape of data security threats.
As part of this collaboration, Microsoft will integrate Commvault’s AI and cyber resilience offerings as a native ISV service within Microsoft Azure. This integration will enable Azure users to easily access and implement Commvault’s resilience technologies directly via the Azure cloud platform. These tools are designed to facilitate rapid recovery and restoration of data, applications, and identities in the event of cyber-attacks, system outages, or human errors.
Commvault’s resilience technologies
This initiative promises a unified experience in terms of procurement, onboarding, and operations for Commvault users, eliminating the need for additional infrastructure, manual integrations, or outside tools.
Sanjay Mirchandani, President and CEO of Commvault, highlighted the enhanced partnership with Microsoft, stating, “For over 25 years, we’ve partnered with Microsoft and now we’re taking that collaboration to the next level... With this joint commitment, we can also make best-in-class resilience plug-and-play for Microsoft customers.”
Enhanced user experience
Consequently, resilience is becoming a critical component for digital and AI-driven projects
Girish Bablani, President of Azure Core at Microsoft, emphasised the importance of integrating Commvault's services, noting, “Customers rely on Azure as a resilient foundation for their cloud and AI workloads. Supporting Commvault natively gives them more choice in how they protect and recover their data, with a more seamless experience inside Azure.”
Large enterprises such as banks, retailers, and healthcare providers are increasingly challenged to modernise infrastructure, mitigate growing cyber threats, and incorporate AI transformation. Consequently, resilience is becoming a critical component for digital and AI-driven projects, with boards and executives prioritising these investments.
Strategic objectives and benefits
The partnership is tailored to support these corporate needs, delivering several advantages to mutual customers, such as:
- Supporting AI Adoption with Security: By integrating recovery and resilience capabilities tailored for AI-powered workflows on Azure, organisations can innovate securely and reliably.
- Seamless Azure Integration: Commvault’s native deployment on Azure ensures users can manage resilience tools alongside existing services through a cohesive experience.
- Maximising Azure Investments: Through the Microsoft Marketplace, customers will be able to purchase Commvault Cloud services, aligning these expenditures with broader Azure cost commitments and simplifying procurement.
Commvault and Microsoft plan to collaborate on co-marketing efforts, including joint sales initiatives and solution development, which aim to accelerate cloud transformation and enhance cyber resilience adoption on Azure. The native ISV service from Commvault on Azure is set for a public preview this summer.
Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announces a strategic partnership with Microsoft that underscores the importance of AI and cyber resilience as enterprises accelerate their move to the cloud, rapidly scale AI utilisation, and face increasingly complex data security threats.
Through this partnership, Microsoft will offer Commvault’s extensive AI and cyber resilience technologies as a native ISV service on Microsoft Azure. This will give Azure customers the ability to discover, provision, and seamlessly integrate Commvault’s trusted resilience capabilities directly from the Azure cloud platform.
Azure cloud platform
These capabilities can be used to help enterprises rapidly recover and restore data, applications, and identities if systems are compromised by attacks, outages, or human error. This collaboration will provide a unified experience across procurement, onboarding, and operations, eliminating the need for separate infrastructure, manual integrations, or external tooling for Commvault customers.
“For over 25 years, we’ve partnered with Microsoft and now we’re taking that collaboration to the next level,” said Sanjay Mirchandani, President and CEO, Commvault. “Many of our customers rely on Microsoft Azure to scale their business in the cloud, use AI, optimise operations, and bring ideas to life. With this joint commitment, we can also make best-in-class resilience plug-and-play for Microsoft customers.”
More seamless experience
Girish Bablani, President of Azure Core at Microsoft, said, “Customers rely on Azure as a resilient foundation for their cloud and AI workloads. Supporting Commvault natively gives them more choice in how they protect and recover their data, with a more seamless experience inside Azure.”
Banks, retailers, healthcare providers, and other large enterprises are under mounting pressure to simultaneously modernise infrastructure, manage escalating cyber risks, and support AI-driven transformation. Boards and executive teams are increasingly prioritising resilience as a core requirement for digital and AI initiatives.
Aligning resilience investments
This strategic partnership and native service on Azure are designed to address these needs and deliver key benefits to joint customers:
- Enable resilient AI adoption: Deliver integrated recovery and resilience capabilities that are well-suited for AI-driven workflows on Azure, helping organisations innovate faster while maintaining data security, trust, and recoverability.
- Deliver a seamless native Azure experience: With Commvault native on the Azure cloud platform, customers will be able to deploy and manage Commvault’s resilience capabilities alongside their existing Azure services through a consistent, integrated experience.
- Maximise Azure investments: Customers can purchase Commvault Cloud through the Microsoft Marketplace and apply usage toward their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), simplifying procurement and aligning resilience investments with broader cloud spend.
Commvault and Microsoft will collaborate on joint go-to-market initiatives, including co-selling, solution development, and integrated sales motions designed to accelerate cloud journeys and customer adoption of cyber resilience on Azure. Commvault’s native ISV service on Azure is expected to enter public preview this summer.
