Commvault SHIFT 2026

Nov 15, 2026 · 3 min read · commvault ·

Last week Nashville hosted Commvault’s annual SHIFT event, and the headline is simple: Recovery is no longer just about putting something back together after it breaks. It is about preparing before the breach, then restoring the whole business in the right order, at machine speed.

Five main announcements landed at the events, look to see early access to these developments coming from December:

Recovery Studiobuilds on Commvault’s existing runbook framework. It focuses on understanding what’s happening in an environment so you can orchestrate bringing all of it back into service. Automation is key here, manually restoring not just data but the applications, identities, and dependencies is slow and time consuming, Recovery Studio handles this and performs a full stack recovery to bring the business back online. As a bonus, existing Commvault knowledge and tooling carry over, so customers can build on their current investments with the vendor.

AgentRecover tackles autonomous agents. When an agent makes a mistake, rolling back the agent alone isn’t enough. You also need to undo what it touched. This could be changes to files, configuration or even identity, such as changes made in Entra. To achieve this a discovery process finds the agents working in the environment and maps their dependencies and connections to document what services it interacts with. An activity audit can then use this information to understand what a misbehaving agent changed and allow for a clean recovery. Microsoft Foundry is in Early Access this month and AWS Bedrock AgentCore follows in December.

Zscaler partnership bringing richer signals about AI activity to the Commvault platform, which should mean cleaner recoveries. Zscaler is a widely used cloud-native security platform which can use policies to govern user, and AI agent, activity. Pairing this with Commvault’s recovery technology makes sense, and will help accelerate AI adoption because the customer can be more confident they are protected.

Data Activate for Databricks is a joint solution built to surface all that quality organisational data that lives in the backup environment for processing by Databricks analytics tools. An organisations’ backup infrastructure should see all the data from across the enterprise, and lock it away safely, be that on disk, cloud, or even tape. This extensive collection makes it an ideal source for tools which can take these potentially vast lakes and put it to use. Early access to this, in selected Azure regions, is coming in December.

Collaboration with NVIDIA. Similarly to the Databricks offering, this reference design will enable NVIDIA NIM services to extract information from the Commvault protected data. Early release is targeted for December with General Availability coming in 2027. Of course, both these solutions ensure that the data being analysed is kept current, and the governance is preserved.

As with the SHIFT events in previous years, we see an evolution in Commvault’s approach to enterprise data protection. The idea of a backup solution being a copy of the filestore onto tape, sent to gather dust, is decades out of date. But so is the concept that in a recovery event a business can survive with a manual restoration process, or that once the data hits the backup it is no longer useful in day-to-day operations. Commvault continue to innovate here, taking an understanding of modern enterprise wants and needs and applying technology of both their own and their partners to make it happen.

If you’ve missed out on the Nashville event, you can catch up at the global virtual event on Wednesday 18th November. Register online at www.commvault.com/shift-virtual

For more information on any of these announcements check out the Commvault Website

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