Commvault launches unified data vault to bring enterprise-grade resilience to S3 data

Commvault has unveiled Commvault Cloud Unified Data Vault, a new cloud-native service designed to simplify and strengthen protection for data written using the S3 protocol. The offering extends Commvault’s air-gapped resilience and security capabilities to S3-based data, giving cloud developers and enterprises a unified, policy-driven way to protect modern application and AI workloads.

The new service provides a secure, Commvault-managed S3-compatible endpoint that allows organizations to apply immutable, policy-based protection to S3 data without installing agents or creating new data management silos. As a result, S3-based application data, backups and emerging AI datasets can be brought under a single enterprise-grade resilience framework.

Addressing fragmented S3 protection

S3 has become the default export target for backups from databases such as CockroachDB and Greenplum, as well as SaaS platforms including Docusign and monday.com. However, these backups are often spread across fragmented buckets with inconsistent retention and lifecycle ...