Commvault today announced the launch of Commvault Geo Shield, a new solution approach designed to help organizations protect and recover critical data while maintaining full control over where their data resides, how environments are operated, and who manages encryption keys.
As enterprises increasingly navigate evolving sovereignty requirements alongside rapid cloud adoption, Commvault Geo Shield extends the company’s long-standing commitment to regulated, compliance-driven environments. The solution enables organizations to meet regional, national, and private sovereign cloud requirements—without compromising recoverability, operational resilience, or data security.
“Commvault Geo Shield is designed to help customers strengthen resilience, support data compliance efforts, and maintain control over how and where their data is managed,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Chief Product Officer, Commvault.
A Unified Approach to Sovereign Cyber Resilience
At the core of Commvault Geo Shield is Commvault’s adaptive fabric architecture, which separates the control plane from the data plane. This design provides customers with greater flexibility and control over data storage, protection policies, and access management—whether environments are operated by customers themselves or trusted partners.
Through Geo Shield, Commvault offers a range of cloud sovereignty options tailored to individual organizational requirements, including:
- Commvault Cloud SaaS deployed in local hyperscaler regions, where available, to support data residency mandates.
- Commvault Cloud SaaS in sovereign hyperscaler regions, with initial support for environments such as the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and additional sovereign regions planned.
- Partner-operated sovereign cloud offerings, enabling qualified local service providers to deliver national or regional sovereign services using Commvault software and air-gapped protection.
- Private sovereign cloud deployments, operated by customers or designated partners within dedicated, isolated environments.
Key Capabilities
Commvault Geo Shield enables organizations to:
- Achieve cyber resilience without sacrificing sovereignty by validating recoverability and operational continuity while maintaining in-region control of data, operations, and encryption keys.
- Retain customer-controlled encryption through support for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) models, including integration with customer- or partner-managed hardware security modules (HSMs).
- Operate within strict regulatory and operational boundaries, including “no call home” requirements, with services delivered by screened and approved local partners.
Supporting Global Regulatory and Sovereign Frameworks
Commvault’s unified platform already supports a broad range of federal, industry, and global regulatory requirements, including FedRAMP High, FIPS 140-3, GovRAMP, and industry mandates such as SEC Rule 17a, HIPAA, and PCI DSS v4.0. It also aligns with emerging regulatory frameworks including DORA and NIS2, and supports global standards such as IRAP PROTECTED status for the Australian Federal Government and certified Cloud Service Provider (CSP) status with the Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC).
Availability
Additional Commvault Geo Shield–specific deployment models will be announced separately, subject to regional partner implementation timelines.