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Commvault Cleanroom Recovery
Rehearse recovery. Recover clean. — on-demand isolated environments where rebuilds happen away from the attacker and drills happen on calendar.
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Commvault Cleanroom Recovery is the category creator of isolated recovery: on-demand cloud environments — spun up in Azure when needed, torn down after — where you rehearse recovery plans on schedule and rebuild systems after an attack without restoring into the network the attacker still owns. Recovery points are scanned clean (Threat Scan) on the way in, forensics can proceed in parallel, and the environment doubles as the recovery-testing capability auditors, insurers and boards now explicitly ask about. The classic failure it prevents has a name — reinfection — and it's why paying ransoms often doesn't end incidents.
The Commvault platform family
This page covers Cleanroom Recovery. The rest of the eight-product portfolio:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Cleanroom Recovery — the isolated-rebuild category creator
- Vendor
- Commvault (est. 1996 · NASDAQ: CVLT · 15x Gartner MQ Leader)
- What it is
- On-demand isolated cloud environments for rehearsal & rebuild
- The failure it kills
- Reinfection — restoring into the compromised network
- On demand
- Spun up in Azure when needed — no standing DR site bill
- Clean in
- Recovery points threat-scanned before they enter
- Rehearsal
- Scheduled recovery testing without touching production
- Forensics
- Rebuild proceeds while the crime scene stays preserved
- Pairs with
- Air Gap Protect (the clean copy) + AD forest recovery
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand cyber recovery before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is a cleanroom?
An isolated recovery environment — spun up on demand, disconnected from the compromised estate — where systems are rebuilt from scanned-clean backups, validated, and only then returned.
Between incidents, the same rooms host rehearsals: recovery drills against real backups, on calendar, without production risk.
Restore-and-pray vs the rehearsed room — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Restore into production + hope | Isolated rebuild (Cleanroom) |
|---|---|---|
| Post-attack restore | Into the network the attacker still owns | Into an isolated room — by construction |
| The recovery point | 'Probably clean' — a guess | Threat-scanned at the gate |
| Forensics vs business | Fighting over the same machines | Crime scene preserved; rebuild parallel |
| DR testing | Risky, weekend-eating, so skipped | Quarterly drills on calendar |
| The RTO | An aspiration in a slide | A measured observation with a date |
| The DR site | A standing bill or nothing | On-demand rooms, priced by use |
| Identity first | 'We'll figure out AD somehow' | Forest recovery inside the room |
| Insurer's question | 'We have a plan document' | Drill reports, attached |
Adoption starts with one drill — and the first rehearsal’s findings list is the business case writing itself.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
On-Demand Fabric
Isolated cloud environments provisioned when needed and torn down after — cleanroom capability without a standing DR-site invoice.
Clean Gate
Recovery points are scanned for malware before they enter — the room stays clean because nothing dirty gets in.
Rebuild Orchestrator
System recovery order, dependencies and validation orchestrated — including AD forest recovery inside the room.
Rehearsal Scheduler
Recovery drills on calendar against real backups — the plan stays true because it keeps being executed.
Evidence Layer
Rehearsal outcomes, timings and validation results exported — the artifact boards, auditors and insurers now request by name.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Isolate, rebuild, prove.
Cleanroom Recovery replaces the reinfection gamble — and the never-executed plan — with a motion you’ve rehearsed until boring.
Ephemeral Isolated Environments
The cleanroom exists when you need it and vanishes when you don't — capability priced by use, not by standing idle.
True Isolation
No route back to the compromised estate — the rebuild happens where the attacker, by construction, isn't.
Scanned-Clean Entry
Threat Scan checks recovery points on the way in — restoring the infection alongside the data is the classic failure; the gate exists to kill it.
Last-Known-Good Selection
Anomaly signals and scan results guide which recovery point predates the compromise — the 'when were we last clean?' question, answered with data.
Orchestrated System Rebuild
Recovery order, dependencies and validation as runbooks — the rebuild follows a script, not adrenaline.
Identity Recovery in the Room
AD forest recovery runs inside the cleanroom — authentication rebuilt first, in isolation, the way real recoveries must sequence.
Application Validation
Systems boot, services answer, apps validate inside the room before anything returns — 'recovered' means verified, not hoped.
Parallel Forensics
The compromised estate stays preserved as a crime scene while business rebuilds in the room — IR and recovery stop fighting over the same machines.
Scheduled Recovery Drills
Quarterly rehearsals against real backups without production risk — the difference between a plan and a rumour, on calendar.
Measured RTOs
Rehearsals produce real recovery timings — the RTO in your board deck becomes an observation, not an aspiration.
Board & Insurer Reports
Drill outcomes exported as evidence — the 'show us a tested recovery' question from insurers and auditors, pre-answered.
Clean-Copy Pairing
Air Gap Protect's immutable copies feed the room — the full motion: untouchable copy, scanned entry, isolated rebuild, validated return.
Watch the cleanroom motion
Official demos — the step-by-step, the post-attack scenario and the five-minute idea.
Step-by-Step Cleanroom Recovery
The full motion walked through — provision, scan, rebuild, validate.
Recover Faster After a Cyberattack with Cleanroom
The post-attack scenario — rebuilding while the estate stays a crime scene.
Quick Look: Cleanroom Recovery Overview
The category-defining idea in five minutes.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Cleanroom Recovery apart from the alternatives.
It kills the reinfection failure
The classic post-attack mistake is restoring into the network the attacker still owns — incidents that 'end' and then restart. Isolation by construction is the only real fix, and this productised it first.
Rehearsal becomes routine, not theatre
DR tests used to risk production and consume weekends, so they didn't happen. On-demand rooms make quarterly drills a calendar event — and an unrehearsed plan is a rumour.
No standing DR-site bill
The old answer — a permanent isolated recovery environment — priced this capability out of everyone but the Fortune 100. Ephemeral Azure rooms price it by use.
Forensics and recovery stop colliding
IR wants the estate preserved; the business wants it rebuilt. The room lets both happen at once — the incident-response argument nobody needed, resolved by architecture.
The board question, pre-answered
'When did we last test recovery, and how long did it take?' now arrives from boards, auditors and insurers alike. Drill reports with measured RTOs are the only good answer.
One motion with the platform
Immutable copy (Air Gap Protect) → scanned entry (Threat Scan) → identity first (AD forest recovery) → validated rebuild. One vendor, one rehearsed motion — not four products duct-taped in an incident.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Cleanroom Recovery journey looks like
Recovery-readiness audit
The current plan's honesty tested on paper: recovery order, identity dependency, clean-point selection, evidence. TechBag runs it free.
First room, first drill
A scoped rehearsal — crown-jewel systems plus AD — recovered into an ephemeral room, timed and reported.
Runbooks hardened
Findings folded back (there are always findings); recovery order corrected; the drill repeats until boring.
Rehearsed steady state
Drills on calendar, evidence on file, insurer and audit questions pre-answered. TechBag manages the consumption commercials.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We got hit on a Thursday. Forensics kept the estate; the business rebuilt in the room; customer systems answered by Monday. The two never fought over a single machine.”
“Our first rehearsal produced a measured RTO of 22 hours against a board assumption of 'about a day or two'. Now the board deck has a number with a date on it.”
“Threat Scan caught the implant in what we'd assumed was a clean recovery point — three days before we'd have restored it into production. That catch was the year's budget justified.”
“The insurer's questionnaire asked for recovery-test evidence. We attached two drill reports. The premium conversation changed tone visibly.”
“Quarterly drills went from a weekend-consuming production risk to a Tuesday. Attendance at DR tests is now… voluntary and high, which is new.”
“AD forest recovery inside the room was the unlock — authentication first, in isolation, exactly like the real day would demand.”
“Budget note: room-hours are consumption — drills cost real money. Still a rounding error next to a standing DR site, but model it.”
“The rehearsal found that two 'critical' systems had circular dependencies nobody documented. Finding that on a calm Tuesday is the product.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the cyber recovery market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Cyber-Recovery Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
The category creator — on-demand, scanned, rehearsed, evidenced. This page's subject.
Motion Completeness × Economics
The grid nobody publishes — how complete the copy→scan→rebuild→evidence motion is vs what it costs to keep.
Full motion (copy→scan→rebuild→evidence) at on-demand economics.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Cleanroom vs the ways teams answer the attack
The platform rivals, the vault heritage and the DIY mirage — honest lanes, hubs landing this wave.
| Dimension | Commvault Cleanroom | Rubrik Cyber Recovery | Veeam (clean-room patterns) | Dell Cyber Vault | DIY isolated env |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Productised isolated recovery | Cyber-recovery suite | Patterns + partners | Hardware vault + services | Your engineers' project |
| Standing cost | On-demand | Platform-priced | Your infrastructure | Standing vault | Standing or fragile |
| Clean-entry scanning | Threat Scan gated | Native scanning | Malware scan available | Analytics in vault | Your problem |
| Rehearsal ergonomics | Scheduled drills, evidenced | Supported | Orchestrator-driven | Service-flavoured | Manual heroics |
| Identity recovery inside | AD forest in the room | Supported | Via runbooks | Service-designed | The hardest part |
| Platform integration | One motion with the estate | Native to Rubrik | Native to Veeam | Adjacent stack | Glue everywhere |
| Best fit | Commvault estates & regulated firms | Rubrik-platform buyers | Veeam shops with RO | Air-gapped-vault mandates | Teams with idle engineers |
Which cyber-recovery path fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Commvault Cleanroom if…
- ✓You run Commvault Cloud — the motion is native, one vendor end to end
- ✓Rehearsal evidence (boards, auditors, insurers) is a standing ask
- ✓Reinfection risk must be answered by construction, not confidence
- ✓A standing DR site is unjustifiable but the capability isn't
Choose Rubrik if…
- ✓Your platform bet is Rubrik — hub this wave
Choose Veeam RO if…
- ✓Veeam estate with orchestrator investment — hub this wave
Choose Dell Cyber Vault if…
- ✓A regulator or sector mandate specifies the vault pattern
Build DIY if…
- ✓You have idle cloud engineers (send them our way instead)
What does an unrehearsed plan cost you?
Drag the sliders (count critical systems; IT-hour cost as loaded ops rate). Estimates assume ~6 hours per critical system per year across ad-hoc DR-test theatre, dependency archaeology and evidence assembly, with ~65% absorbed by scheduled drills and exports — the real number is downtime days avoided, and your revenue-per-hour prices that one. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Cleanroom prices on consumption — rooms cost when they exist. TechBag models the drill cadence in one GST quote.
First drill
Best for proving the motion
- Scoped rehearsal, crown jewels + AD
- Measured RTO as the deliverable
- Findings list included (always)
Quarterly cadence
Best for evidence programmes
- Drills on calendar
- Reports for boards & insurers
- Runbooks hardened each cycle
Full cyber package
Best for attack readiness
- Air Gap copies + Threat Scan + rooms
- One vendor, one rehearsed motion
- TechBag negotiates the bundle
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every cyber-recovery vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Ask your current plan: where exactly do we restore to after an attack? If the answer is 'production', that's the finding.
PoC success = one full rehearsal with a stopwatch — the measured RTO is the deliverable.
Does the drill include AD forest recovery inside the room? Authentication is step one of every real recovery.
Have Threat Scan evaluate your 'known good' recovery points. The results surprise most estates.
Let the rehearsal expose undocumented system dependencies — it will.
Export the drill report and hand it to whoever asks about recovery (board, auditor, insurer). Does it answer them as-is?
Price the quarterly-drill cadence honestly — room-hours cost money; standing sites cost more.
Rehearse the exit too: how do validated systems return to (rebuilt) production?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Cleanroom Recovery?
Scope a PoC whose deliverable is a timed rehearsal, or bring your recovery plan and let a TechBag advisor ask it the reinfection question.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.