Last week was not only Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco but also Commvault SHIFT 2025 virtual event — The Cyber Resilience Revolution Goes Global — which delivered a powerful vision for how enterprises can build true resilience in the age of AI. With on-demand access now open, attendees (and anyone who missed the live broadcast) can dive into a full library of keynotes, breakout sessions, and demos — available until 31 December 2025.
🔑 Keynote Highlight — The AI Imperative: Resilience Reimagined
In the opening keynote, Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani explored how AI-driven enterprises operate instantaneously, autonomously, and at massive scale. Yet the data underpinning this evolution is increasingly complex, distributed, and vulnerable.
His main message:
CIOs and CISOs must rethink data availability, accuracy, integrity, and trust to secure competitive AI advantage.
Commvault empowers organizations to safely scale resilience across this new AI era.
🚀 Innovation Showcase – The Next Standard of Resilience
During the mainstage showcase, Pranay Ahlawat (Chief Technology & AI Officer) and Rajiv Kottomtharayil (Chief Product Officer) unveiled groundbreaking innovations redefining how organizations secure, manage, and recover data in an AI-powered world.
- Unified Vision: Commvault is no longer just a backup company. With Cloud Unity, it’s delivering a platform where data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience converge intelligently.
- AI-First Resilience: The event underscores that resilience in the AI era isn’t just about protecting workloads — it’s about protecting and recovering the data foundation that underpins AI initiatives.
- Proactive Recovery: Rather than reactive “restore-from-backup” strategies, Commvault emphasizes clean, verified, automated recovery, reducing risk after incidents.
- Identity as a First-Class Citizen: By elevating identity protection and recovery, Commvault is acknowledging that protecting AD (or EntraID) is just as business-critical as protecting data.
📢 Major Announcements at Commvault SHIFT Virtual
1. Commvault Cloud Unity Platform
A new unified, cloud-native platform for AI-powered resilience. With this release, Commvault brings together data protection, cyber recovery, and identity resilience in a unified, cloud-native, AI-powered platform.
📎 https://www.commvault.com/news/new-era-in-enterprise-resilience-commvault-cloud-unity-platform-release
- AI-enabled discovery & policy recommendations help customers onboard workloads faster and smarter.
- Risk analysis dashboards give visibility into protection gaps across clouds, regions, and accounts.
- Cost optimization: built-in TCO analysis shows what could be saved by switching to Commvault protection.
- Broad workload coverage: supports 160+ cloud regions and more than 200 cloud services, plus on-prem and edge.
2. Automated, Clean Cyber Recoveries
AI helps detect threats, isolate compromised data, and orchestrate clean recovery.
📎 https://www.commvault.com/news/transforming-how-enterprises-make-clean-complete-automated-cyber-recoveries
- Their improved Threat Scan uses AI to detect suspicious files, quarantine them, and identify Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), helping prevent re-injection of malicious data.
- Synthetic Recovery allows for surgical, intelligent rebuilding of systems after an attack — recovering clean data, not just raw backups.
3. End-to-End Identity Resilience
Commvault is extending protection to one of the most targeted attack vectors: Active Directory (AD), Microsoft Entra, and identity systems.
📎 https://www.commvault.com/news/expanding-end-to-end-identity-resilience-detect-log
- This identity resilience functionality is deeply integrated with data protection, giving admins a unified view and control.
- The platform now detects and audits anomalous changes in AD (who changed what, when, and from where).
- It supports real-time rollback of malicious changes — restoring AD to a clean, trusted state without manual recovery point juggling.
🎓 Breakout Session Highlights
Here are some of the most-viewed and talked-about sessions:
- The Phoenix Protocol: What Most People Get Wrong About a Cyber Attack
- Protecting the AI Stack: What You Need to Know
- From Mishaps to Meltdown: Best Practices for AD & EntraID Recovery
- Introducing MTCR: The Missing Metric for Cyber Recovery Success
- Accelerate Incident Response with Cleanroom & Security Integrations
- AI Governance with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury (Humane Intelligence)
- The CISO Paradox: Leading Security in the Age of Personal Accountability
- Jay McBain – Analyst View: Partner Ecosystem Growth
- Zero Trust IAM for Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
- Using Cloud Speed & Scale to Protect Cloud Workloads
- Resilient Together: Hybrid Cloud Success via the Commvault Cyber Resiliency Platform
📺 Watch Commvault SHIFT 2025 On-Demand
Commvault SHIFT On-Demand is now live:
👉 https://www.commvault.com/shift-virtual
What’s included:
- Full keynote, breakouts, and demo sessions
- Available 24/7 until 31 December 2025
- Watch and re-watch as often as needed
- Includes subtitles in 16 languages and translated interface
💡 Final Thoughts
SHIFT 2025 made one thing crystal clear:
👉 In the AI era, resilience must evolve.
Commvault SHIFT 2025 wasn’t just a showcase — it was a bold statement: in the AI era, cyber resilience must evolve. With the Cloud Unity platform, advanced recovery tools, and a deep integration of identity protection, Commvault is staking its claim as a leader in the future of enterprise resilience.
If you’re a CIO, CISO, cloud architect or data leader, it’s worth registering for SHIFT On-Demand and watching the sessions. The insights could shape how you build and defend your organization in the years ahead.
Commvault is redefining enterprise resilience by combining:
- Data protection
- Cyber recovery
- Identity resilience
- AI-driven insights
