Gary Merrill on cybersecurity
From Balancing Risk, Recovery and Resiliency with Commvault | Meet the Chief · · World Wide Technology
“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.”
On , Gary Merrill, Chief Commercial Officer at COMMVAULT SYSTEMS INC, spoke about cybersecurity during Balancing Risk, Recovery and Resiliency with Commvault | Meet the Chief on World Wide Technology.
About Gary Merrill
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.