Commvault Systems Inc. introduced Recovery Studio at its SHIFT 2026 customer event, a service designed to automate the rebuilding of entire business applications after an outage or cyberattack. The data protection provider paired the launch with four other announcements covering recovery for artificial intelligence agents and joint work with Databricks Inc., Nvidia Corp. and Zscaler Inc. The offerings are aimed at enterprises whose applications depend on identities, configurations and infrastructure that backup files alone cannot restore.
Recovery Studio addresses the piece-by-piece manual work of bringing a business back online. Commvault notes that data by itself does not make an application run again, and that without supporting identities, configurations and infrastructure, an application can remain offline long after its files are recovered. Commvault research from last year found that a large enterprise, which may have hundreds of applications and thousands of identities to bring up in sequence, takes 28 days on average to reach even minimal operation under conventional approaches. Recovery Studio replaces that work with automated runbooks that rebuild and validate each component in order, restoring identity systems and cloud configurations, including firewall rules, and can run threat scans on supported resources, with results feeding the decision on whether a service returns to production. Operational, disaster and cyber recovery all run from the same platform, and Pranay Ahlawat, Commvault's chief technology and AI officer, described the launch as the DevOps moment for recovery, saying one orchestrated flow can replace the spreadsheets and war rooms teams use today.
The AgentRecover update extends the company's tool for reversing damage done by AI agents to agents built on Microsoft Corp.'s Foundry and on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore from Amazon Web Services Inc. Commvault added protection in September for agent configurations that tools such as Anthropic PBC's Claude Code store on employee laptops. On Bedrock AgentCore and Foundry, the software discovers each agent and maps the data, applications and infrastructure it interacts with, and if an agent goes rogue, its activity log shows which systems it may have touched across platforms. Restores target the agent and whatever it changed, and customers can combine AgentRecover with Commvault's identity recovery and change auditing tools to trace the identities an agent acted through; Phil Goodwin, research vice president at International Data Corp., said agents break the conventional recovery assumption of a discrete set of data at one point in time because the agent, its data and surrounding resources must return at machine speed.
The Databricks and Nvidia announcements build on Data Activate, which turns Commvault-protected backup copies into datasets for analytics and AI. Commvault Data Activate for Databricks shares data under Commvault management into Databricks through OpenSharing, arriving as governed tables in Unity Catalog with ownership, access permissions and lineage intact, with updates continuing as source content changes or is deleted. Nvidia's contribution, a reference design for software-as-a-service and software deployments, centers on retrieval: Nvidia NIM microservices and Nemotron Retriever, together with the Nvidia cuVS library used with Apache Solr, extract and organize Commvault-protected content so applications and agents can pull from it more easily. Commvault cited BARC research published by DataHub in June finding that 70% of data and AI leaders said less than half of their unstructured data could be found and used for AI, and Alan Atkinson, Commvault's chief business development officer, said the aim is turning protected data into an active business asset.
On security, Commvault and Zscaler named AI discovery, runtime governance and agent detection and recovery as early areas of collaboration, without announcing a joint product or availability date. Zscaler's Security for AI line polices how employees and agents use AI tools, and Dhawal Sharma, Zscaler's executive vice president of AI security and strategic initiatives, said organizations need to be ready to recover quickly if something goes wrong.
Recovery Studio, AgentRecover's Amazon Bedrock AgentCore support and the Databricks integration are due to enter early access in December, the Databricks integration in select Microsoft Azure regions, while Foundry support targets early access this month. The Nvidia reference design is set for general availability in 2027 following an early release in December. Recovery Studio will be priced on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery, with general availability planned in the coming months.
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