NetApp and Commvault have formed a strategic alliance to offer enterprises an integrated platform for ransomware detection, data protection, and rapid recovery.
NetApp and Commvault announced Monday a strategic alliance to deliver a joint data protection and cyber resilience platform for enterprise customers, combining the two companies’ technologies to help organizations detect and recover from ransomware attacks more quickly.
The partnership integrates NetApp’s AI-powered ransomware detection, built into its primary storage systems, with Commvault’s backup and recovery software. Together, the companies said, the combined platform can identify threats earlier, automate recovery workflows, and restore data across both on-premises and cloud environments.
The announcement comes as ransomware attacks have grown more sophisticated, often spreading through backup systems before an organization detects the initial breach. That delay, security professionals say, widens the scope of damage and extends recovery times.
“Organizations often detect cyberattacks like ransomware too late, after they have spread across primary systems and backups,” said Gagan Gulati, senior vice president and general manager of data services at NetApp. “By combining proven resilience and built-in detection and response capabilities, our joint customers can have the peace of mind that their data is available, protected, and recoverable no matter where it lives.”
At the core of the alliance is what the companies describe as a closed-loop recovery architecture, linking NetApp’s Autonomous Ransomware Protection technology with Commvault’s backup and synthetic recovery tools. The goal is to shorten the window between detecting an attack and restoring clean data, reducing downtime and the risk of data loss.
Dallas Olson, chief commercial officer at NetApp, said the alliance is aimed at customers managing growing volumes of unstructured data generated by AI, video, and connected-device workloads. “Together we’re helping customers make their infrastructure intelligent and secure so they have confidence that their data is always available, protected, and recoverable,” he said.
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Pranay Ahlawat, chief technology and AI officer at Commvault, said the partnership is designed to allow organizations to act on threat signals close to where data is stored. “Together, Commvault and NetApp detect potential attacks close to the data and make trusted recovery decisions to quickly, cleanly, and completely restore data at scale,” he said.
The companies said they plan to deepen the integration over time, including incorporating NetApp’s ONTAP restore technology to further reduce data loss and improve recovery speed. Both companies exhibited at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.
