Chief Commercial Officer, Commvault
Search every verified Gary Merrill interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Gary Merrill, Chief Commercial Officer at Commvault, appeared on the "Meet the Chief" podcast on October 17, 2024, to discuss cyber resilience and data recovery. He stated that the key question for organizations has shifted from "do I have a good backup" to "am I ready to recover," describing this as the essence of resilience. Merrill noted that Commvault acquired a company called Oranic, which he said allows customers to recover entire applications alongside data in a cloud-native manner, reducing recovery time from weeks or months to minutes or hours. He described the company's approach to modernizing the traditional clean room concept for recovery, enabling IT teams to spin up on-demand clean rooms with zero trust architecture and automation. Merrill emphasized that AI is used to help customers recover by providing "bulletproof recovery start points" based on forensics and machine learning, and to operationalize complex environments. He said Commvault takes a "responsible approach" to AI, building in kill switches and keeping machine learning within the customer's environment. Merrill also commented that being a CIO before becoming a CEO provided him with perspective on business operations, and that immersing oneself in different cultures is valuable for making global decisions.
“The question you ask yourself today is not do I have a good backup, it's am I ready to recover and that ability to recover is what resilience is about and that is the shift that is the mental state that is the preparedness that our customers have to have to go through.”
“We recently bought a very exciting company called Oranic that allows you to go that last mile in recovery by bringing back the application in its entirety alongside the data, completely cloud native and works on all three major clouds, reducing recovery time from weeks or months to minutes or hours.”
“We took the traditional concept of a clean room for recovery and modernized it into a cloud native way, allowing IT teams to spin up as many clean rooms as they want on demand, with zero trust architecture and automation to bring the entire stack back to life cheaply and cheerfully.”
“When you get breached, it's chaos. Your phone is ringing from the C-suite asking when are we coming back to life. The world knows we're down. The real challenge is not just getting data back but getting the entire application stack back up and running quickly.”
Cyber resilience has become an executive- and board-level imperative for organizations of all kinds. But how can leaders ensure ...
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