Commvault has announced a new set of AI capabilities designed to help enterprises govern, protect, and recover data in environments increasingly shaped by autonomous AI agents.

The announcement introduces three offerings — Data Activate, AI Protect, and AI Studio — built on Commvault Cloud and aimed at organisations looking to scale agentic AI without losing control over data exposure, agent behaviour, or recoverability.

Addressing the risks of agentic AI

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to deployment, a growing concern is the unpredictability of AI agents operating across enterprise data environments. According to research cited by Commvault, 60% of AI leaders identify risk and compliance concerns alongside legacy system integration as their top barriers to agentic AI adoption.

Data Activate enables organisations to classify and prepare data from protected backup copies — in formats such as Apache Iceberg and Parquet — for use with large language models and AI data platforms. The capability is designed to help teams identify and exclude sensitive information, such as personally identifiable data, before activating datasets for model development.

Governance and full-stack recovery

AI Protect extends oversight to AI agents themselves, providing discovery and inventory of agents across environments and mapping their activity to the broader AI stack. The capability is designed to help organisations identify vulnerabilities, understand the downstream impact of agent-driven changes, and enable full-stack recovery when agents cause unintended modifications across data, systems, and configurations.

AI Studio allows teams to build custom agents for specific resilience use cases, drawing on a library of built-in agents and integrating with other enterprise systems via Commvault’s Model Context Protocol server.

“In agentic environments, agents mutate state across data, systems, and configurations in ways that compound fast and are hard to trace,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. “When something goes wrong, teams need to recover not just data, but the full stack — applications, agent configurations, and dependencies — back to a known good state.”

Positioning AI resilience as a system of record

“Every enterprise era has produced a system of record — ERP for business operations, CRM for customers, and now AI for the enterprise,” said Sanjay Mirchandani, President and CEO, Commvault. “If data powering AI is compromised, AI is compromised.”

The new capabilities build on Commvault’s existing cloud-native resilience platform and are aimed at enterprises operating across on-premises, SaaS, and hybrid cloud environments.