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Recovery Studio Targets Full-Stack Business Restoration
Commvault is targeting the work required to bring complete business services back online after a disruption, announcing Recovery Studio to orchestrate restoration across applications, identities, infrastructure, configurations and data.
The company introduced the offering Nov. 10 at SHIFT 2026. Its planned runbook workflows will coordinate recovery of interconnected components, including containers, virtual machines, files and objects, along with security and network settings.
"This is the DevOps moment for recovery," said Pranay Ahlawat, Commvault's chief technology and AI officer, in the announcement.
Commvault says the workflows will cover operational, disaster and cyber recovery, incorporating infrastructure rebuilds and security controls such as firewall rules and network security groups. Threat scanning for supported resources will inform decisions before services return to production.
Sequencing Recovery Around Dependencies
The company's Recovery Studio capability page places the offering within CyberRecover and describes identity-first sequencing: restoring trusted identity services before dependent applications and users reconnect.
The page describes guided runbooks for cleanroom, in-place and out-of-place recovery. It lists production, migration and customer-defined environments among recovery targets, with sequencing based on business priorities.
Validation checkpoints are intended to help teams assess recovered resources before production cutover. Execution visibility and reporting will document tests, outcomes and recovery progress, according to the capability page.
The planned approach brings data security, IT and resilience teams into standardized recovery workflows. Commvault also lists adjacent capabilities for isolated recovery testing, threat detection in backup data, and restoration of Active Directory and Entra ID services.
Chris Cola, vice president of information technology and CIO at B&G Foods, said in the release that built-in checks increase confidence that "what we're restoring is trusted and ready to return to production."
December Early Access Target
Recovery Studio is targeted for early access in December, with general availability planned in the coming months. Pricing will depend on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery. Commvault has not specified an exact general availability date in the announcement.
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