Commvault has appointed David Morton to its board of directors, effective immediately. Morton will also serve as chairperson of the operating committee. Morton currently serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Intapp, a governed AI platform for professional firms. He has previously held senior financial leadership roles at DigiCert, Anaplan, and Seagate Technology. Throughout his career, Morton has helped technology companies navigate market shifts, scale operations, and deliver growth in evolving technology environments. He brings expertise spanning SaaS, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure. Nicholas Adamo, chairperson of Commvault's board, said Morton's financial expertise and career across SaaS, data security, and technology firms will be invaluable as the company advances its leadership in cyber resilience.

Maintaining business continuity with Commvault. Yahya Kassab, Senior Director and GM: KSA & Gulf Commvault, outlines cybersecurity best practices and the technology solutions on display at GISEC 2026 in this exclusive interview. What is Commvault showcasing at GISEC Global 2026? At GISEC Global 2026, Tahawultech is focused on how organisations can move beyond cyber protection towards true cyber resilience. Tahawultech'll showcase its integrated resilience, AI capabilities and ResOps approach, with a strong emphasis on recovery readiness, and highlight the regional initiatives that further strengthen preparedness and recovery. As the threat landscape grows more complex, recovery speed, AI-driven resilience and operational readiness are becoming increasingly critical to maintaining business continuity. With cyberattack volumes continuing to rise across the UAE, what are the most significant changes you are seeing in the ecosystem, scale and sophistication of threats targeting organisations today? The UAE's pace of digital transformation makes it an increasingly attractive target for cyberattacks, with threats growing in both volume and sophistication. At Commvault, Tahawultech work with organisations across government, financial services and the private sector to strengthen cyber resilience alongside compliance. Security remains essential, but no defence is infallible. That is why organisations must look beyond prevention and prioritise recovery, ensuring they can restore trusted data quickly and maintain critical operations when an attack gets through. Tahawultech hear a lot about AI as an opportunity. What is the flip side, and are UAE businesses prepared for it? AI is now fundamental to digital transformation, but the same capabilities that make businesses more efficient are also lowering the barrier for attackers and enabling threats to scale faster. At the same time, AI is generating significantly more data across increasingly complex environments. With Dubai expecting half of its operations to run on agentic AI within two years, organisations must focus not only on protecting data, but also governing access, understanding where it resides and building a clear strategy for recovery when disruption occurs. What best practices should organisations adopt when implementing AI-related cybersecurity solutions? Organisations should start with data. They need to understand what they hold, classify it and govern who or what can access it before it reaches an AI model or agent. Identity is equally critical, particularly as autonomous agents introduce more non-human identities into the environment. Nine in ten attacks target Active Directory, and every AI agent adds a new, non-human identity to protect. Finally, organisations should assume breaches will happen and continuously test recovery. At Commvault, Tahawultech bring these elements together through Resilience Operations, or ResOps, aligning data security, identity, recovery, people and processes around sustained operational resilience. Looking ahead to 2027, how should UAE organisations rethink their approach to cyber resilience to stay operational through increasingly complex disruptions? A future-ready strategy is less about predicting every attack and more about recovering cleanly and quickly from the unexpected. That means making isolated recovery and air gapping standard practice, maintaining immutable copies of critical data, treating identity as a Tier 0 system, defining the minimum viable business, and continuously testing recovery in cleanroom environments. Resilience Operations, or ResOps, brings these capabilities together so organisations can restore critical operations in the right order and at speed. Image Credit: Commvault

Commvault Systems among Top Analyst Picks backed by strong share repurchase activity. By Joel Kornblau, Editor, The Online Investor, Friday, September 18, 2026, 2:18 PM ET Commvault Systems Inc. (CVLT) ranks No. 39 in a screen from The Online Investor that focuses on stocks combining favorable analyst sentiment with meaningful share repurchase activity. To qualify for the list, a company must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing 12-month period. The ranking then incorporates aggregated analyst recommendations from major brokerage firms, ordering qualifying companies by the strength of those consensus views. The screen highlights a specific investment theme: companies that are both returning capital through stock buybacks and receiving constructive support from Wall Street analysts. In Commvault's case, the overlap is notable because buybacks and analyst ratings can each signal confidence, though for different reasons. Management authorizes repurchases as a capital allocation decision, while analysts evaluate valuation, operating performance, competitive position, and earnings outlook. Why share buybacks matter. Share repurchases reduce the number of shares outstanding, which can lift per-share metrics such as earnings per share if net income remains unchanged. That mechanical effect is one reason buyback activity often attracts attention. Repurchases can also indicate that a company believes its stock is trading below intrinsic value or that management sees limited need to retain all available capital for acquisitions, debt reduction, or internal reinvestment. That said, the quality of a buyback matters as much as the quantity. A repurchase program is generally more meaningful when it is funded from durable free cash flow, executed at disciplined valuations, and accompanied by stable or improving operating fundamentals. Buybacks are less informative when they primarily offset dilution from stock-based compensation or when they are financed in a way that weakens the balance sheet. What the Commvault ranking suggests. Commvault's placement on this list suggests that the market is seeing two supportive signals at once: 1. Capital return through repurchases. The company has retired a meaningful portion of its share base over the trailing year, meeting the screen's threshold for strong buyback activity. 2. Positive analyst sentiment. Brokerage analysts, in aggregate, view the shares favorably enough for Commvault to rank among the more highly rated names in this repurchase-focused universe. Used together, these factors can strengthen a bullish case, but they do not eliminate the need to assess valuation, revenue growth, margins, cash generation, and competitive dynamics. Analyst ratings can change quickly, and repurchase activity alone does not ensure future share price appreciation. How buybacks can affect per-share value. A concise way to think about the effect of a stock buyback: Lower share count: Fewer shares remain outstanding after repurchases. Potential EPS support: The same level of net income is divided across fewer shares. Possible valuation impact: If investors apply the same earnings multiple, a higher EPS figure can support a higher share price. Capital allocation signal: Repurchases may reflect management confidence in the business and the stock's valuation. For software companies in particular, investors often look beyond the headline buyback figure to determine whether repurchases are shrinking the fully diluted share count on a sustained basis. That distinction can be important in sectors where equity compensation is widely used. Sector context: application software. Commvault operates in the application software segment, where investor attention frequently centers on recurring revenue quality, customer retention, cloud transition execution, cybersecurity relevance, and operating leverage. Relative performance within the group can be influenced not only by company-specific fundamentals but also by broader shifts in enterprise IT spending, valuation multiples, and expectations for growth durability. Among large-cap peers referenced for comparison, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) was off about 0.5% on the day, while Oracle Corp (ORCL) was trading lower by about 3.1%. Below is a three-month chart comparing the performance of CVLT, MSFT, and ORCL. What to watch next. For investors evaluating Commvault through the lens of analyst support and stock buybacks, several follow-through indicators are especially relevant: Repurchase consistency: Whether the company continues to reduce share count over time rather than simply authorizing buybacks. Free cash flow conversion: Whether capital returns are supported by internally generated cash. Operating momentum: Trends in revenue growth, profitability, and customer demand. Valuation discipline: Whether the stock still offers an attractive risk-reward profile after recent performance. CVLT was trading lower by about 2.6% in midday Friday action. For more candidates tied to this theme, browse Current Top Analyst Picks of the S&P 500 and compare the current list. How to read broker darling screens. Broker darling stories highlight stocks that analysts currently favor within a large-cap or dividend-oriented screen. The signal is most useful when analyst support is reviewed with valuation, earnings expectations, dividend quality, and business fundamentals. Investors can also explore a stock buybacks angle for additional context.