Commvault Launches Data Recovery Solution For Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB is reportedly one of the top NoSQL databases.

Commvault, a provider of cyber resilience and data protection offerings, announced on Wednesday the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB.

Amazon’s DynamoDB is one of the top NoSQL cloud databases, according to several reports like this one. When those databases go down or experience some sort of interruption, the recovery process can be daunting, especially for organizations with petabytes of data in a database and complex database tables.

With Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB, admins can restore existing DynamoDB tables to a prior point in time, with no need to reconfigure, Commvault said in a news statement. The solution also allows organizations to recover individual partitions instead of entire tables, which can cut both “recovery times and recovery costs,” Commvault said. It also offers an “incremental forever” backup model which Commvault says can lower total cost of ownership compared to native options only offering full backups.

Woon Jung, chief technology officer, cloud native at Commvault, spoke about why this solution can help midmarket organizations in an emailed statement to MES Computing:

"As midmarket organizations continue to struggle with shrinking security teams and budgets, data recovery and security remain top challenges. Because database recovery is a core part of cyber resilience, Commvault is launching Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB to help businesses roll back or restore data quickly without rebuilding from scratch. Traditional methods provide a limited set of restore modalities, resulting in slow and resource intensive recovery processes. Backtrack lets developers revert existing DynamoDB tables to a prior point in time near-instantly with no reconfiguration necessary – an industry first and a unique capability in the midmarket. This provides the more than one million customers leveraging Amazon DynamoDB an efficient and secure solution that significantly lowers the Total Cost of Ownership,” Jung said.

“Clumio Backtrack for DynamoDB is now available globally via the AWS Marketplace. Pricing is consumption-based.” Commvault said.