Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced two innovations — Conversational AI and Data Rooms — that are designed to transform how enterprises manage, protect and activate their data in the age of artificial intelligence.

The announcements, made ahead of the company’s SHIFT 2025 conference, are said by Commvault’s to underscore its mission to unify cyber resilience and responsible AI for the hybrid cloud era.

The first release, Conversation AI, is a natural-language interface that allows users to interact with Commvault Cloud through enterprise-grade generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude. The system enables teams to configure, manage and monitor resilience tasks using everyday conversation while maintaining strict compliance and security guardrails and is built on Commvault’s policy-based Model Context Protocol server.

The approach shifts traditional information technology workflows toward what Commvault calls “agentic resilience,” where AI not only responds to questions but also performs authorized actions like initiating backups or verifying recovery status.

Letting AI do things can cause concerns around compliance and security, but Commvault has that covered, with every interaction governed by the company’s authentication and encryption controls, ensuring compliance with frameworks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework. Commvault emphasizes that no customer data is used to train external models and all interactions remain secure within enterprise boundaries.

The second release today, Data Rooms, provides a secure environment for organizations to connect trusted backup data to internal or external AI platforms.

The offering turns historical data into AI-ready assets while preserving compliance through built-in classification, policy-based access and audit trails. Data Rooms allows enterprises to export data in open formats such as Apache Iceberg or Parquet for use with analytics tools including Snowflake and Microsoft Azure, all while operating within Commvault Cloud’s zero-trust architecture.

“Organizations are beginning to realize that their historical data is more than just insurance, it’s a powerful, untapped strategic asset,” said Pranay Ahlawat, chief technology and AI officer at Commvault. “With Commvault Data Rooms, enterprises can confidently export their secondary data and harness it with the AI platform of their choice to unlock new opportunities for intelligence, innovation and business growth.”

Like the Conversational AI release, Commvault also has compliance and operational efficiency covered in Data Rooms, with the offering including built-in AI-driven classification, policy-based redaction and audit-ready controls that ensure sensitive information remains protected even as it’s activated for AI and analytics.

Both new capabilities will enter early access in late 2025 and are slated for general availability in 2026. Commvault will showcase them at SHIFT 2025 in New York Nov. 11-12 and virtually on Nov. 19.

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