Commvault announces strategic partnership with Zscaler to help enterprises adopt AI with confidence, control, and resilience. Published on 11/10/2026 at 08:34 am EST PRNewswire NASHVILLE, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), delivering continuous recovery for the AI era, today announced a strategic partnership with Zscaler, the cybersecurity platform for the AI era, that will help customers adopt AI with confidence and control while also being able to rollback and recover from harmful agentic activity. Today, AI agents are moving from pilots into production and interacting directly with business data. As a result, security and IT leaders are asking practical questions: Which AI tools are our employees and developers using? What data is being shared? Which activities should be allowed or blocked? And, if unwanted changes occur, can we quickly recover? The partnership aims to bring together a host of complementary capabilities to help joint customers answer these questions. Zscaler Security for AI solutions identify the use of AI applications in the enterprise and enforce policy on what users and AI agents can do. Commvault's AI and cyber resilience capabilities help enterprises recover their data, applications, and identities following attacks, disruptions, or outages. Commvault and Zscaler will partner on use cases such as AI discovery, runtime governance, and agent detection and recovery. Opportunities for collaboration include: * Comprehensive Visibility and Shadow AI Governance: Advancing enterprise-wide discovery to help ensure continuous visibility into active AI applications, models, and tools. * Granular Policy Enforcement and Data Protection: Establishing active guardrails that flag unsanctioned AI activity and prevent sensitive data exposure within AI environments. * Resilient Workload Security and Automated Recovery: Securing autonomous agent operations in real-time while supporting rapid, clean recoveries should a security event or risky AI action occur. "As AI interacts more directly with business data, organizations need to stay in control and be prepared to recover quickly if something goes wrong. Zscaler secures AI use across the enterprise, giving organizations the controls they need to manage risk and protect sensitive data. We're proud to bring the expertise of Zscaler and Commvault together to help customers strengthen recovery and resilience," said Dhawal Sharma, EVP of AI Security and Strategic Initiatives, Zscaler. "To adopt AI with confidence, organizations need visibility, governance, and the ability to recover when things go wrong. By bringing together complementary strengths in AI security, identity protection, and agent resilience, Zscaler and Commvault can help enterprises innovate while mitigating risks and maintaining control," said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. About Commvault Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/commvault-announces-strategic-partnership-with-zscaler-to-help-enterprises-adopt-ai-with-confidence-control-and-resilience-302934264.html SOURCE COMMVAULT (C) PRNewswire - 2026

Commvault unveils strategic AI partnerships with NVIDIA, Databricks, and Zscaler to bolster cyber resilience. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Enterprise data protection provider Commvault Inc. announced sweeping expansion of its platform on Tuesday with critical architecture designed to secure, govern, and orchestrate automated recovery across corporate artificial intelligence (AI) environments. The coordinated rollout highlights major joint engineering initiatives alongside industry heavyweights NVIDIA Corp., Databricks Inc., and Zscaler Inc., while introducing native capabilities to remediate risks introduced by autonomous AI agents. Leading the technical slate is a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA aimed at accelerating enterprise AI pipelines without compromising compliance. Under the alliance, Commvault will provide infrastructure that validates corporate data as current, authorized, and compliant with governance policies before feeding into training models and real-time inference workflows. Addressing the enterprise shift toward autonomous systems, Commvault will unveil enhanced capabilities for AgentRecover. The expanded offering extends disaster recovery directly into autonomous operational layers, giving security personnel the ability to revert unauthorized or erratic changes introduced by automated AI agents. "If AI runs your business, then your business is AI," Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani said. "It's just as eight years ago with the public cloud. Recovery is the new security." A complementary partnership with cloud security firm Zscaler will provide visibility into shadow AI usage across enterprise networks. Together, the two platforms will monitor which data stores AI agents interact with, enforce granular execution permissions, and maintain fail-safe recovery configurations. On the analytics and model-readiness front, the company will introduce Commvault Data Activate for Databricks. The integrated solution surfaces clean, trusted operational data from enterprise archives and pipelines, making it immediately accessible for advanced machine learning workflows and predictive analytics on the Databricks Lakehouse. Beyond AI pipelines, the vendor will tackle a long-standing operational blind spot with the launch of Recovery Studio. Complex outages often expose critical coordination gaps: while infrastructure, identity, and application teams may successfully revive individual assets independently, core enterprise services frequently fail to restart due to misaligned system dependencies. Recovery Studio delivers a centralized workspace where cross-functional engineering units can jointly reconstruct, validate, and verify the intricate dependencies across data, access identities, and application stacks to guarantee business continuity. "As AI agents take on a greater role in business, resilience has to extend beyond the agent itself," said Michele Buschman, chief information officer at American Pacific Mortgage. "Agents may interact with regulated loan data, applications, and customer-facing systems. Recovering both the agent and affected systems after an unintended action would be essential for mortgage companies focused on compliance, keeping loans on track, and maintaining customer trust." The broad slate of announcements marks a decisive bid by Commvault to position its platform at the nexus of cyber resilience and governed enterprise AI adoption.

Commvault unveils Recovery Studio, AgentRecover update and joint work with three partners. Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today used its SHIFT 2026 customer event to unveil Recovery Studio, a new service that will automate the rebuilding of entire business applications after an outage or cyberattack. Four other announcements cover recovery for artificial intelligence agents and joint work with Databricks Inc., Nvidia Corp. and Zscaler Inc. AgentRecover, the company's tool for reversing damage done by AI agents, is being extended to agents built on Microsoft Corp.'s Foundry and on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore from Amazon Web Services Inc. Databricks and Nvidia technology will draw on governed enterprise data from Commvault's Data Activate service. The Zscaler agreement is a strategic partnership centered on AI security. Recovery Studio goes after the manual work of restoring a business one piece at a time. Data alone does not get an application running again. Without the identities, configurations and infrastructure it depends on, an application can stay offline long after its files are back. A large enterprise may have hundreds of applications and thousands of identities to bring up in sequence. Getting back to even a minimal level of operation takes 28 days on average under conventional approaches, according to Commvault research from last year. In place of that manual work, the service uses automated runbooks that rebuild and validate each component in order. Commvault said the runbooks also restore identity systems and cloud configurations, firewall rules included. Threat scans can run inside a runbook on supported resources, and the results feed into the call on whether a service is ready to go back into production. Operational, disaster and cyber recovery all run from the same platform. Pranay Ahlawat, Commvault's chief technology and AI officer, called the launch "the DevOps moment for recovery." He said one orchestrated flow can take over from the spreadsheets and war rooms that recovery teams lean on today. The AgentRecover update moves the company's agent protection onto the platforms where businesses build production agents. In September Commvault added protection for agent configurations that tools such as Anthropic PBC's Claude Code store on employee laptops. Phil Goodwin, research vice president at International Data Corp., said conventional recovery assumes a discrete set of data at one point in time. Agents break that assumption, because the agent, its data and the resources around it all have to come back "at machine speed," he said. On Bedrock AgentCore and Foundry, the software discovers each agent and maps the data, applications and infrastructure it interacts with. 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. Customers can also run AgentRecover with Commvault's identity recovery and change auditing tools to trace the identities an agent acted through. The Databricks and Nvidia announcements both build on Data Activate, which turns backup copies protected by Commvault into datasets for analytics and AI. Much of the data companies hold is unstructured and scattered across systems. In research from BARC published by DataHub in June, 70% of data and AI leaders said less than half of their unstructured data could be found and used for AI. Commvault Data Activate for Databricks shares data under Commvault management into Databricks through OpenSharing. The data arrives as governed tables in Unity Catalog with its ownership, access permissions and lineage intact. Updates keep flowing as source content changes or is deleted, and customers do not have to rebuild a connection to every original source. Alan Atkinson, chief business development officer at Commvault, said the aim is "turning protected data into an active business asset." Nvidia's part, delivered as 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. Data Activate keeps that content current as source files change, retention periods expire or permissions are revoked. On the security side, Commvault and Zscaler listed AI discovery, runtime governance and agent detection and recovery as early areas of collaboration, and the companies did not announce a joint product or availability date. Zscaler's Security for AI line polices how employees and agents use AI tools. Dhawal Sharma, Zscaler's executive vice president of AI security and strategic initiatives, said organizations need to be "prepared to recover quickly if something goes wrong." Recovery Studio, AgentRecover's Amazon Bedrock AgentCore support and the Databricks integration are all due to enter early access in December, the last of them in select Microsoft Azure regions. Foundry support comes sooner, with early access targeted for this month. The Nvidia reference design is set to reach general availability in 2027 after an early release in December. Recovery Studio will be priced on the amount of data configured for orchestrated recovery, and Commvault plans general availability in the coming months. A virtual edition of SHIFT follows on Nov. 18. Photo: Commvault. A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support its mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. 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