The News
At HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Commvault announced an expanded strategic partnership to deliver enhanced cyber resilience, data protection, and disaster recovery across hybrid cloud environments. This includes deeper integrations between Commvault Cloud, HPE Zerto, and the HPE Alletra Storage MP platform to provide enterprise customers with fast, secure, and intelligent protection from modern cyber threats.
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Analysis
The rise in ransomware attacks, AI-driven threats, and geopolitical disruptions has intensified demand for secure, resilient cloud-native environments. As enterprises accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, maintaining continuous availability and regulatory compliance becomes a high-stakes requirement. Findings from theCUBE Research show that organizations are increasingly seeking integrated solutions that go beyond basic backup to provide intelligent, policy-driven protection and automated recovery. With developers playing a growing role in infrastructure operations, there is a strong push for solutions that reduce complexity while ensuring rapid recoverability.
This partnership addresses modern operational and security requirements by tightly coupling Commvault Cloud’s AI-powered anomaly detection with HPE Alletra Storage and Zerto’s Continuous Data Protection (CDP). The result is a platform that supports ultra-low recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO), enabling near-instantaneous recovery from data loss or corruption. Developers operating hybrid workloads, especially in regulated industries, benefit from one-click orchestration, air-gapped protection, and geo-redundant snapshot automation. These features may collectively reduce the need for manual configuration while strengthening trust in hybrid deployment models.
Traditionally, cyber resilience was built through isolated backup appliances, manual snapshot scripts, and reactive disaster recovery playbooks. Recovery often meant hours, if not days, of downtime and significant data loss, especially across distributed cloud environments. Developers and platform teams were forced to stitch together disparate tools, often resulting in inconsistent policies, high costs, and operational overhead. This fragmented approach also left gaps in detection and real-time mitigation, making enterprises vulnerable to sophisticated attacks.
The integrated solutions introduced by HPE and Commvault transform cyber resilience into a programmable, policy-enforced function embedded into the hybrid cloud fabric. Developers gain access to robust APIs and automation tools for backup, anomaly detection, and restoration, without having to be security experts. With AI-enhanced scanning and low-latency recovery options, development teams may now integrate resilience testing directly into CI/CD workflows. This shift turns resilience from a reactive IT function into a developer-enabled operational capability.
Looking Ahead
As hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures become the norm, cyber resilience will be altered by intelligent integration, not isolated tooling. The future of data protection lies in context-aware, AI-powered platforms that span edge to cloud, enabling organizations to detect, respond, and recover from threats with minimal friction. The growing convergence of storage, security, and application development will also continue to blur traditional boundaries between DevOps, SecOps, and infrastructure teams.
The HPE–Commvault partnership reflects this trend. By aligning backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience into a cohesive, hybrid-native framework, they are not only meeting today’s enterprise demands but also laying the foundation for autonomous remediation and resilience-as-code. We could see further co-innovation around predictive analytics, sovereign cloud compliance, and developer-ready cyber APIs in future iterations of this alliance.
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