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Indeed and that may also impact desktop OS adoption. We've been joking for two decades about "the year of Linux on desktop", but I have one simple example: my 13 year old computer runs on Fedora for 1+ yr now, and he couldn't care less: much to my dismay, all his games run perfectly fine.
21.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I think it seems quite reasonable. We're moving into a world where nothing can be taken at face value. Fake news, fake images, fake videos and possibly now fake capabilities. The
Dunning–Kruger effect of AI.
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Very much agree with you! The push to shove AI into every single piece of software is driving me to move as much as I can to open-source solutions, ideally self-hosted.
It's not always perfect, but I'd rather be in control of what I do and the outcomes I expect. And I don't think it's "cynicism".
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I think we all want to see products that support real-life environments. Work is complex and organizational history, we are bound to have many places we keep and process data. Vendors who build products for a limited set of solutions will fall behind.
19.11.2025 21:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#Commvault It's interesting that AI is such a huge attack surface. You can poison the model or leverage it as a tool for gathering information OR carrying out the attack itself. You have to be prepared to protect all facets of it.
19.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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And that's it for today, folks! I had a blast following the virtual #CommvaultSHIFT 2025 event. I hope you also thoroughly enjoyed going through the announcements with me.
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Can't emphasize enough the benefits of a unified management experience. Commvault Cloud Unity brings forth:
- a single point of control for all instances
- a central policy engine
- multi-region, multi-cloud, hybrid deployments
- unified reporting for cost, usage & health metrics
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I talked a few times today about Appranix and Clumio. Commvault did an outstanding job at integrating those companies and unifying its cloud data protection portfolio, also taking advantage of Metallic, thus delivering unrivaled cloud workload support across public cloud vendors.
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Commvault protects a broad range of workloads, especially in public clouds.
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To sum up the slide shared before, there's no end in sight on cyber attacks, while organizations are struggling to manage expanding infrastructures and applications at scale. Manual management is no longer feasible.
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Key insights from Pavan Bedadala, VP Product Management at Commvault
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It's me again for Commvault SHIFT second breakout session, "To Infinity & Beyond: Utilizing Cloud Speed & Scale to Enhance Resilience of Your Workloads"
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Really looking forward to meeting @veeam.com @solidigm.bsky.social #Keepit and @hammerspace.com at the #A3TechLive event tomorrow.
19.11.2025 10:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I concur with the speakers that we must separate DR from Cyber Resilience. In our TrendScape for Data Protection, we go as far as distinguishing Operational Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resiliency. The first has no security implications, while the second does.
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"Realistically, the MTCR is typically four months" according to Darren. This is light years away if you compare to usual RPO/RTO metrics (typically in the range of hours).
Imagine a business crippled for 4 months. Or read the news.
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Refreshing to listen to Danielle Sheer, Duncan Bradley, and Darren Thomson. I attended @commvault.bsky.social "Minutes to Meltdown" role-play cyber attack event in London last year, with Darren leading this activity, and it was impressive to see the work Commvault put into this.
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On the @eurostarnews.bsky.social to #London. We from @osmiumdatagroup.bsky.social will be at the #A3Communications #A3TechLive event. At the moment my friend and business partner @maxmortillaro.bsky.social is sending a lot of very informative information on @commvault.bsky.social #CommvaultSHIFT
19.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Unless you have a cleanroom recovery solution, the data cleanup process after a cyber attack is likely to be very tedious and lengthy, assuming that there is even something left to recover from, without any guarantee about data health.
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MTCR = Mean Time to Clean Recovery. Commvault has been thinking about a metric that correlates to business value.
It's not that RPO/RTO are bad, but they typically assume the time and point where data gets recovered, irrespective of its cleanliness.
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I'm now back with the first breakout session, "Introducing MTCR: The Missing Metric for Cyber Recovery Success" - I look forward to learn more about cyber recovery, an area where Commvault excels.
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The keynote just ended. This was quite a packed session, where we heard about many topics.
Commvault SHIFT 2025 is not over yet, stay tuned for the upcoming breakout sessions!
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Pranay is now recapitulating on the five pillars of Commvault Cloud Unity, an architecture built for scale and security to deliver outstanding enterprise-grade cyber resilience.
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Appreciate the point made by Pranay that automation and AI should deliver value, not hype.
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Commvault is now announcing support for Databricks, to be soon followed by Snowflake and Pinecone.
The company not only acknowledges the opportunities brought for by AI, but also the many risks, including data poisoning and LLM weaponization.
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Side note, Commvault Cleanroom Recovery is a huge differentiator for Commvault. Cyber resilience / cleanroom recovery is the dividing line between leading data protection solutions and the followers.
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Commvault is now introducing Recovery Runbooks to its Cleanroom Recovery solution. This allows full recovery orchestration / end-to-end resilience.
Orgs can create application blueprints to recover entire apps, including AD Forests & related VMs / resources.
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A great thing with Commvault Synthetic AI Recovery is that once customers upgrade to Commvault Cloud Unity, the capability becomes immediately available to them, without any learning time.
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