John Brown
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Lumen Technologies has entered a strategic partnership with Commvault, combining the latter's expertise in cyber resilience and data protection with Lumen's global secure network and edge infrastructure.
The collaboration introduces the “Lumen Validated Design for Cyber Resilience with Commvault” a blueprint that integrates air-gapped storage, anomaly detection, encrypted data transport and centralized policy management across hybrid environments.
Why It Matters
- The partnership addresses the rising threat landscape ransomware incidents, hybrid cloud complexity and regulatory pressures by offering enterprises a unified and scalable model for data protection and rapid recovery.
- Lumen's own deployment of the design achieved noteworthy results: consolidation of about 90% of legacy backup platforms and approximately $3.5 million in annual cost savings.
- Industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, utilities and financial services which operate across distributed, hybrid infrastructures can particularly benefit from this validated architecture.
Key Features
- Seamless integration of encrypted global transport (via Lumen) and enterprise-grade backup/recovery and resilience (via Commvault) across on-premises, cloud and edge environments.
- A pre-tested design blueprint that organizations can adopt with confidence rather than constructing from scratch.
- Focus on zero-trust access, immutability (air-gapping) and anomaly detection to protect against advanced threats and ensure data integrity.
Things to Consider
- Organizations planning to adopt this model should assess their current backup architecture, data flows, and how this validated design will overlay or integrate with existing systems.
- Staff training and process adjustment may be required, especially around new recovery workflows, air-gap strategies and multi-cloud orchestration.
- To benefit maximize, businesses should measure metrics such as time to recovery, number of immutable backups, and cost-savings from platform consolidation.
- Regular reviews will be needed to keep pace with evolving threats, compliance standards and technology shifts in hybrid cloud/metaverse/edge environments.
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