Commvault Cloud Access Node BYOL

Commvault Cloud is an enterprise-grade platform built for unified cyber resilience across cloud-native, AI, and traditional datacenter applications to meet the demands of the hybrid enterprise in the face of ransomware and other cyber threats. Commvault Cloud unifies the best data security with the fastest recovery, advanced AI, and the power of a broad partner ecosystem to help the world's largest organizations reduce risk, minimize downtime, and keep business moving forward.

The Commvault Cloud Access Node (or Backup Gateway) is a specialized data mover or proxy that facilitates efficient, secure, and scalable backup/restore operations, especially in virtualized or cloud environments. It offloads data processing from source systems and ensures optimized data flow to backup storage. As access nodes, backup gateways connect with, discover, back up, and restore your data source (which the Commvault Cloud control panel cannot access directly). Note this is an infrastructure component of the Commvault software and requires an existing Commvault Cloud control plane to be used.

• Protection of native Azure workloads including Azure VM, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cosmos DB, Azure Blob storage, and more
• Agent-less backup of Azure virtual machines and storage
• Agent-based application backup and recovery from other platforms into Azure
• Efficient replication and source side deduplication built-in; writes directly to Azure blob storage or other storage libraries. Integrates Azure Backup and Recovery with Commvault on-prem solutions

New in V11.42 and higher, the OS images are now pre-hardened with Center for Internet Security (CIS) Level 1 benchmark controls.

Licensing

The Access Node software is free (covered under the BYOL Commvault software license) but you will pay the Azure infrastructure costs for running the virtual machine.