Analyst(s): Krista Case
Publication Date: November 13, 2024
NetApp Insight and Commvault Shift 2024 reflected the growing importance of cyber resilience in today’s cloud-driven world. Both vendors are adapting their solutions to address evolving needs, such as more rapid recovery from attacks, and to support modern enterprises’ multi-hybrid cloud reality. For its part, NetApp is complementing its production storage roots with a suite of data services designed to detect attacks more quickly, prioritize critical data for recovery, and conduct fast, full-application stack recoveries – all across on-premises and multi-public cloud environments. Commvault, on the other hand, is evolving from its data protection roots into a more comprehensive cyber resilience platform for multi-hybrid cloud environments. There are a number of commonalities, including the usage of AI-driven threat detection, the ability to streamline recovery operations, and investment in support for multi-hybrid cloud environments.
Key Points:
- Cyber Resilience Takes Center Stage: Both NetApp and Commvault are prioritizing cyber resilience in their solutions to address rapid data recovery and multi-cloud security needs.
- AI and Cloud-First Approach: Both companies are leveraging AI for threat detection and recovery automation, and are evolving toward cloud-native offerings for data protection.
- Platform-Driven Security with Multi-Cloud Support: We see a shift toward integrated platforms with AI and security partnerships, along with strong support for multi-cloud data management and recovery.
Overview:
The recent conferences, Commvault Shift and NetApp Insight 2024, highlighted the growing importance of cyber resilience in today’s cloud-driven landscape. Both Commvault and NetApp are adapting their solutions to address the challenges of rapid data recovery from attacks and securing data across multi-hybrid cloud environments.
AI and Cloud-First Approach
A significant trend is the focus on AI-powered solutions. Both companies are leveraging AI for threat detection, recovery automation, and developing cloud-native data protection offerings.
Shift Toward Platform-Driven Security with Multi-Cloud Support
We see a move toward integrated platforms that incorporate AI for threat detection, security partnerships, and strong support for multi-cloud data management and recovery.
Recommendations for Data Protection Vendors
- Evolving AI: Invest in more advanced AI models and cloud-based delivery to keep pace with evolving threats and support seamless customer adoption.
- Optimizing Cloud Support: Ensure solutions can easily protect and recover data across diverse on-premise and public cloud environments.
- Beyond Data Recovery: Focus on orchestrated application recovery to minimize downtime for critical business services.
Key Points from the Analysis
- Cybersecurity Landscape: The increasing sophistication of cyberattacks and complexity of data sprawl across multi-cloud environments necessitate a strong emphasis on data security and rapid recovery.
- Commvault’s Shift: Commvault’s acquisitions and portfolio development reflect a move toward a comprehensive cyber resilience platform for multi-hybrid cloud environments.
- NetApp’s Focus: NetApp leverages its production storage expertise to offer AI-powered data security solutions, including ransomware protection and data classification for recovery prioritization.
- Platform Approach: Both vendors are adopting platform-driven security with AI integration, security partnerships (e.g., Splunk for SIEM), and consolidated offerings.
- The Role of AI: AI automates tasks such as failover/failback, improves data classification/threat detection, and helps manage complex attack surfaces in a resource-constrained environment.
- Multi-Cloud Support: Solutions cater to the growing adoption of multi-cloud models by enabling data protection, management, and recovery across these complex environments.
Looking Forward
- AI Adoption: Building trust and comfort with AI use cases for threat detection and recovery is crucial for wider adoption.
- Security Toolchain Consolidation: Data protection and storage vendors can play a key role in simplifying complex security toolchains by offering integrated platforms.
- Multi-Cloud Support: Data cataloging and flexible protection/recovery solutions are essential for securing multi-cloud environments.
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Additional conference details are available on the NetApp and Commvault websites.
Disclosure: The Futurum Group is a research and advisory firm that engages or has engaged in research, analysis, and advisory services with many technology companies, including those mentioned in this article. The author does not hold any equity positions with any company mentioned in this article.
Analysis and opinions expressed herein are specific to the analyst individually and data and other information that might have been provided for validation, not those of The Futurum Group as a whole.
Other insights from The Futurum Group:
Data Under Siege? NetApp Prioritizes AI & Hybrid Cloud Defense
Commvault’s Shift to Cloud-First Resilience: A Strategic Move
Commvault Continues to Beat Guidance, Driven by Multi-Hybrid Cloud Cyber Resilience
Author Information
With a focus on data security, protection, and management, Krista has a particular focus on how these strategies play out in multi-cloud environments. She brings approximately 15 years of experience providing research and advisory services and creating thought leadership content. Her vantage point spans technology and vendor portfolio developments; customer buying behavior trends; and vendor ecosystems, go-to-market positioning, and business models. Her work has appeared in major publications including eWeek, TechTarget and The Register.
Prior to joining The Futurum Group, Krista led the data protection practice for Evaluator Group and the data center practice of analyst firm Technology Business Research. She also created articles, product analyses, and blogs on all things storage and data protection and management for analyst firm Storage Switzerland and led market intelligence initiatives for media company TechTarget.
