Commvault cosies up to Google’s Cloud

Commvault has extended its Commvault Cloud and Clumio protection offerings to run natively on the Google Cloud platform.

Commvault Cloud (powered by Metallic AI) provides unified data protection, security, governance, AI-driven threat detection, and recovery across traditional on-premises apps, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, and SaaS apps. Clumio is a cloud-native, serverless SaaS offering originally built for AWS workloads, such as S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EC2/EBS, and Apache Iceberg data lakehouses, with virtual air-gapped/immutable backups, and fast recovery at massive scale. Think of the two this way; Commvault Cloud serves enterprises needing unified cyber resilience across diverse environments. Clumio targets AWS/GCP-heavy, cloud-native customers needing simplicity and cost savings. They can be complementary. 

Michelle Graff, SVP, Global Partners & Channel Sales at Commvault, said: “By expanding the full breadth of the Commvault Cloud platform to Google Cloud, we are giving cloud-first and multi-cloud organisations choice, the ability to innovate with confidence, and access to proven resilience.”

Commvault Cloud on Google Cloud protects BigQuery, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL and Google Workspace workloads including Gmail and Google Drive. The product automatically finds workloads in Google Cloud and discovered cloud resources are analysed for protection risk. Reports enable administrators to see protected versus under-protected workloads and it recommends protection policies based on workload classification. A Cloud Threat Scan helps customers search backups for known threats, recover validated clean data, and reduce reinfection risks. The Cloud Air Gap Protect feature enables immutable, backups isolated from production systems to defend against ransomware and insider threats. 

Commvault’s Clumio offering is limited to protecting Google Cloud Storage, and is delivered as a fully managed SaaS platform. Clumio’s CTO, Woon Ho Jung, said: “With Clumio now expanding to Google Cloud, we are enabling more customers to bring resilience to datasets that are powering today’s AI transformation. This gives organisations confidence that no matter how or where disruption happens, they can recover.”

Clumio does offer ransomware resilience but does not have all the Commvault Cloud cyber-resilience features, and is reckoned to be lighter weight and simpler to set up. It has fast point-in-time, serverless scaling for petabyte-size data sets and usage-based pricing.

Clumio only protects Google Cloud Storage and, we understand, does not currently protect other common GCP workloads, such as: Compute Engine VMs, GKE (Kubernetes), Databases (e.g., Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable), BigQuery, Filestore or other storage types, or VMware Engine. If it is to emulate its AWS breadth and depth then these workloads will be supported in the future.

We could envisage Clumio being extended further at some point to support Azure and possibly the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Commvault Cloud is now available through Google Cloud Marketplace with a credit-based, utility-driven pricing model that aligns costs with consumption and scales with customer needs.

Clumio for Google Cloud is available for early access today and is targeted for general availability (GA) in summer 2026.

Bootnote

Commvault acquired Clumio in 2024 for $47 million. Metallic was developed by Commvault and launched in 2019.