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Commvault Partners with Pinecone for AI Vector Resilience


Commvault Partners with Pinecone for AI Vector Resilience
  • by: PR Newswire
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  • December 19, 2025

Commvault has partnered with Pinecone to enhance cyber resilience for vector retrieval workloads essential to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI applications. This collaboration extends Commvault's unified platform to protect Pinecone's vector databases, providing immutable backups and rapid recovery without compromising performance.

Quick Intel

  • Adds resilience for vector data in AI workloads on top of Pinecone's native backups.
  • Enables immutable backups, point-in-time recovery, and extended retention.
  • Supports compliance with encrypted, air-gapped, auditable copies.
  • Protects against data poisoning, deletion, and AI-specific attacks.
  • Unified protection across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
  • Minimizes downtime for RAG inference and maintains AI application quality.

Enhancing Protection for Mission-Critical Vector Data

Vector databases like Pinecone power modern AI by storing numerical representations of content relationships, enabling accurate, context-aware responses during training and inference. As these become foundational to enterprise AI, regulated industries require robust safeguards against corruption, attacks, or loss.

The partnership addresses this by layering Commvault's advanced capabilities over Pinecone's durable storage, offering enterprises a single platform for managing resilience across cloud and on-premises environments.

Core Features and Compliance Support

The solution delivers key protections via Commvault Cloud:

  • Accelerated point-in-time recovery to restore vector indexes quickly, reducing downtime and preserving RAG performance.
  • Defense against threats like data poisoning or evasion through encrypted, immutable, air-gapped backups for clean restores.
  • Consistent resilience across major clouds, simplifying management in multi-cloud setups.
  • Indelible records for governance, regulatory compliance, and audits in AI workflows.

This enables organizations to transition RAG systems to reliable production scale with enterprise-grade security.

Leadership Perspectives on the Partnership

Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault, stated: "As enterprises embed AI deeper into their operations and leverage RAG, the vector database layer has become mission-critical; increasingly, these organizations seek additional layers of protection and compliance beyond their already highly durable systems. With Pinecone, we are closing that protection gap. We're enabling AI stacks to operate with the same confidence, governance, and recoverability that traditional workloads demand."

Jeff Zhu, VP Product at Pinecone, added: "Pinecone is built for performance and scale, and our customers trust us with their most critical AI assets. Partnering with Commvault allows us to offer an even deeper level of resilience for organizations with complex compliance needs."

This integration strengthens AI resilience, supporting safe adoption in compliance-heavy sectors while maintaining low-latency query performance.

 

About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale. In a constantly evolving threat landscape, Commvault keeps customers ready by unifying data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery, on one cloud-native, AI-enabled platform. Customers trust Commvault to conduct the fastest, most complete recoveries – not just their data, but their entire business. Purpose-built for the agentic enterprise, Commvault also enables organizations to safely embrace AI while protecting against AI-driven threats.

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