Through this expanded partnership, the two companies are delivering coordinated cyber recovery and incident response services to help joint customers improve readiness, respond faster, and achieve cleaner recoveries. With ransomware attacks happening every 14 seconds and average recovery times spanning 24 days, IT and security teams, as well as system integrators, are looking for vendors who are collaborating and combining best-in-class services and solutions. These efforts not only address what happens before and during an attack but also support recovery when it becomes a critical lifeline for organisations.

“Today’s threat landscape demands more than just security – it requires resilience,” said Alan Atkinson, Chief Partner Officer at Commvault. “Our expanded partnership with CrowdStrike brings together exceptional incident response capabilities from CrowdStrike and leading data recovery and resilience solutions from Commvault to help joint customers identify and quickly address cyber incidents and recover swiftly and effectively.”

“Cyber resilience isn’t just about recovery, it’s about being ready at every stage of an attack,” said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. “Our expanded partnership with Commvault brings together industry-leading threat intelligence, incident response expertise, and robust recovery capabilities to help organisations identify risks faster, recover smarter, and strengthen their overall security posture. In an AI-accelerated world of relentless and sophisticated threats, security and IT teams need to operate as one, and this collaboration helps make that possible.”

This expanded partnership delivers a unified suite of services, including CrowdStrike’s elite incident response services and Commvault’s Guardian retainer-based services offerings, which provide readiness assessments, recovery validation, recovery testing, and incident response recovery assistance. For customers, this means:

• Faster incident response and recovery: In the event of a cyber incident, CrowdStrike’s real-time threat visibility pinpoints the scope of the attack, while Commvault’s recovery solutions enable rapid restoration. This integrated approach streamlines the incident response process and helps minimise disruption.
• Enhanced risk mitigation: Jointly conducted cyber resilience maturity assessments and advanced scenario-based readiness exercises — including continuous recovery testing with Cleanroom Recovery — strengthen cyber resilience.
• Unified incident management: Integrated response workflows between Commvault and CrowdStrike enable faster collaboration during crises, accelerating time to resolution for joint customers.
• Tailored support and scalability: Commvault’s incident response recovery services provide scalable, subscription-based support tailored to each customer’s specific resilience needs.
• Access to industry expertise: Customers benefit from the combined expertise of Commvault and CrowdStrike, with tailored guidance and hands-on support from trusted cybersecurity and recovery professionals.

“In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, cyber resilience is not just an option—it’s a necessity,” said Fady Richmany, Regional Vice President & General Manager, Emerging Markets, CEE, CIS & META at Commvault. “At Commvault, we’re redefining how organizations move from continuous threats to continuous business. With AI-driven security, innovative solutions, strategic partnerships, and a cloud-first approach, we are empowering enterprises across EMEA’s Emerging Markets to stay ahead of cyber risks and build a future-ready defense. Join us in Dubai for Commvault SHIFT as we unveil the next era of cyber resilience.”

The SHIFT Dubai agenda will feature keynote sessions, a deep dive into the Commvault product roadmap, panel discussions, and expert insights from Microsoft, IDC, Core42, AWS, Pure Storage, and other industry leaders. Attendees will gain exclusive access to thought leadership and direct strategy on modern cyber resilience strategies, AI-driven security trends, how to maintain continuous business and understanding the concept of Minimum Viable Company.

The UAE’s cyber market, projected to grow to $9.8 billion by 2028, highlights the nation’s commitment to innovation. However, 58% of UAE enterprises report their cybersecurity measures fail to match the scale of their digital acceleration. Commvault’s SHIFT Roadshow reinforces its mission to close this gap, empowering UAE businesses to future-proof data protection, streamline compliance, and neutralize threats in an era of relentless AI-powered attacks.

Combining Commvault’s next-generation active defence and automation data protection capabilities with the scale and performance of the VAST Data Platform, the two companies will provide a robust, highly scalable and performant solution designed to help enterprise customers return to business following a data loss event like a ransomware attack. “VAST has emerged as an industry trailblazer and Commvault is proud to have a strong technology and strategic alliance to enable customers to build cyber-resilient infrastructure with our co-designed scalable data protection solution,” said Alan Atkinson, Chief Partner Officer at Commvault. “Through this partnership and our upcoming joint offering, we’re helping solution and service providers and their customers to protect, secure, and ultimately recover their data at a much faster rate – keeping their business up and running, even in the wake of an attack.”

Together, this new validated design from VAST and Commvault will offer differentiated capabilities that help organizations keep data secure with built-in protocols that drive compliance, detection and monitoring to increase visibility and accelerate response times, and first-class recoverability to thwart data loss, restore quickly and maintain business continuity. These capabilities include:

• Rapid Restores – By architecting Commvault’s platform to take advantage of VAST’s all-flash read performance, this validated design will optimize instant recovery with a fast, space-efficient, highly scalable system that removes data silos to safeguard data wherever it is across clouds, data centres, SaaS apps, containers, and the edge.
• Continuous Operations– With VAST’s unique ability to run production and backup workloads on the same cluster, Commvault can enable enterprises to instantly return their most critical applications and workloads to normal operations by eliminating the need to perform time-consuming restore processes.
• Reduced Threats– Commvault and VAST’s secure, comprehensive data protection solutions leverage advanced security features like Commvault’s Metallic ThreatWise, multi-factor authentication, administrative workflows, Object Lock, and VAST’s Indestructible Snapshots. With rich security integrations, real-time data infrastructure and leading security tools to accelerate incident response, automate countermeasures, and connect IT and security teams, Commvault and VAST are helping organizations to surface zero-day, unknown, and insider cyber threats, further mitigating exposure to bad actors and Ransomware attacks.
• Flexible Economics – The consumption models within the upcoming jointly validated design allow customers to consume data protection as it suits their business – without compromise. This flexible model simplifies the procurement process for both customers and partners by detailing the bill of material required. Combining Commvault deduplication and compression with VAST’s Similarity-based data reduction, the solution delivers network bandwidth reduction and superior storage savings to offer a cost point equivalent to HDD-based backup appliances, with over one hundred times better restore performance.

VAST and Commvault are already helping customers and partners like Expedient deliver an industry-leading service level agreement (SLA) to their own customers, without the conventional expense associated with legacy infrastructure. “Expedient is partnering with VAST and Commvault to deliver to our customers the most innovative IT solutions in the market,” said Bryan Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Expedient. “Through these partnerships, we’re improving the performance, reliability, and scalability for our customers, resulting in a higher service level, improved recovery time and ultimately better business outcomes for the short and long term.”

“This is a great step in our continued partnership with Commvault, bringing organizations a joint solution that provides protection and recovery from ransomware and cyber-attacks while optimizing performance, cost, and efficiency,” said Michael Wing, President at VAST Data. “Our customers and partners love our ability to recover data faster and at a lower TCO than their previous data protection solutions by reducing the amount of data stored, consolidating infrastructure, and helping them meet their sustainability goals – all while moving toward a future-proof, AI-ready data platform. This validated design that we’re currently working on together will take that to the next level, and I can’t wait to see all the great innovation that will follow.”