Commvault Acquires Appranix In Cyber Resilience Move

‘Via the Commvault Cloud platform, Commvault already delivers exceptional cyber resilience capabilities to customers today, from mitigating risks, to helping customers assess their cyber readiness, to rapidly recovering data after an outage or cyberattack. But, when there is an outage or breach, it’s not just recovering data that’s critical. ... Appranix’s patented technology automates the process of rebuilding cloud applications and can reduce the time it takes to do that to hours or minutes,’ wrote Tim Zonca, Commvault’s vice president of portfolio marketing, in an email to CRN.

Commvault Tuesday said it has acquired Appranix, a provider of cloud cyber resilience technology, as a way to help businesses reduce the time they need to recover after a cyberattack or system outage.

Appranix is the developer of the Cloud Resilience Copilot, which the company says goes beyond traditional backups and disaster recovery by delivering cloud recover assurance for rebuilding cloud applications after a ransomware attack or outage.

Cloud Resilience Copilot includes continuous automated discovery and cloud resource mapping, and automatically discovers hundreds of multi-cloud accounts without the need for agents. It then continuously backs up cloud configurations and dependencies in an immutable vault away from the production cloud to withstand outages and attacks. It also can compare two point-in-time cloud configurations across stacks to understand drifts.

No dollar value for the acquisition was provided.

Commvault executives were not available to talk with CRN about the acquisition. However, Tim Zonca, Commvault’s vice president of portfolio marketing, told CRN via emailed responses to questions from CRN that Appranix is a profitable company, and one that is trusted by leading brands including Live Nation and Norwegian Cruise Line.

Zonca also wrote that while Appranix works with other cloud storage vendors including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform in a similar way to how Commvault does – and will continue those relationships – it does not have existing relationships with other data storage or data protection vendors.

While Commvault already has cyber resilience built into its platform, Appranix will take that to a new level, Zonca wrote.

“Via the Commvault Cloud platform, Commvault already delivers exceptional cyber resilience capabilities to customers today, from mitigating risks, to helping customers assess their cyber readiness, to rapidly recovering data after an outage or cyberattack,” he wrote. “But, when there is an outage or breach, it’s not just recovering data that’s critical. Companies often spend days or weeks rebuilding distributed and dynamic cloud applications. Appranix’s patented technology automates the process of rebuilding cloud applications and can reduce the time it takes to do that to hours or minutes.”

As a result, Zonca wrote, the Appranix acquisition will help Commvault deliver cyber resilience across an even wider spectrum spanning risk mitigation, readiness, rapid recovery, and rebuilding infrastructure.

Commvault said in a statement that the Appranix team will quickly join Commvault, and that the integration of Appranix’s technology into Commvault's portfolio is expected to be completed by this summer. Until then, customers can leverage Appranix for their cloud application discovery and rebuild requirements via the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces, the company said.