Commvault Expands Metallic Cloud Protection Platform Globally While Introducing Enterprise-Grade SaaS Backup Solutions

Global Footprint Nearly Tripled as Metallic Reaches 23 Countries

Data protection is becoming mission-critical as organizations accelerate their cloud adoption and hybrid IT strategies. Responding to this shift, Commvault has significantly expanded its Metallic backup-as-a-service offering, marking a turning point in how enterprises approach data resilience. The platform is now generally available across 23 countries worldwide, with nine new markets added in the EMEA region—Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, and Switzerland—demonstrating Commvault’s commitment to serving enterprises wherever they operate.

This geographic expansion signals a fundamental change in the data protection landscape. Organizations globally are recognizing that traditional backup methods struggle to keep pace with modern hybrid environments. Cloud-native, as-a-service data protection delivers the simplicity and flexibility enterprises need without the operational overhead of managing on-premises infrastructure.

New Metallic Solutions Transform Enterprise Data Protection

The expanded Metallic portfolio now addresses specific pain points across multiple enterprise workloads. The latest rollout introduces capabilities that cover the entire spectrum of modern business-critical applications.

SaaS Application Protection Reaches New Heights

Metallic Salesforce Backup emerged as a standout addition, offering enterprises scalable, dedicated protection for Salesforce Sales, Service, and Financial Cloud environments. The solution handles unlimited retention and storage while enforcing hardened security controls—a critical requirement for organizations managing sensitive customer data. Features like sandbox seeding and granular recovery capabilities ensure compliance with stringent SLAs without operational complexity.

Equally significant, Metallic Office 365 & Teams Backup & Recovery capabilities have been enhanced to enable in-place restoration of Teams conversations and channel data. This granular recovery approach maintains existing site structures while allowing administrators to pinpoint and restore specific communications with precision. The automatic inclusion of Microsoft Teams functionality for all Office 365 Backup customers extends coverage across Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive—essentially creating a unified Microsoft 365 protection layer.

Database and Directory Workload Coverage Expanded

The addition of Oracle Database and Microsoft Active Directory support to Metallic Database Backup solidifies the platform’s enterprise credibility. Now organizations can protect SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and Active Directory across on-premises, cloud, and Azure environments through a single interface. This unified approach eliminates the complexity of managing disparate backup tools.

Hybrid Cloud Gets a Physical Anchor

HyperScale X for Metallic represents an architectural innovation that bridges the SaaS-first approach with on-premises requirements. This fully integrated appliance runs Commvault’s HyperScale X storage platform in edge mode, functioning as a backup target for hybrid cloud workloads managed by Metallic. Organizations gain flexibility to design protection schemas spanning cloud-to-cloud, on-premises-to-cloud-with-local-copy, and cloud-to-edge scenarios—essentially letting each backup scenario find its optimal storage destination.

The Broader Market Context

Enterprise Strategy Group’s analysis captures the driving forces behind this product evolution. Remote work proliferation combined with elevated data risk awareness creates sustained demand for cloud-based data protection solutions that blend security, agility, and comprehensive functionality. Commvault’s iterative expansion of the Metallic SaaS Plus portfolio has constructed what amounts to an enterprise backup ecosystem—supporting diverse workload types while offering flexibility in storage destination selection.

The market signal is clear: organizations want simplicity without sacrificing control. They expect backup solutions that understand both cloud-native architectures and legacy on-premises systems, delivering unified management across heterogeneous IT estates.

What This Means for Enterprise Operations

By tripling country availability and doubling product offerings, Commvault has fundamentally repositioned Metallic as the comprehensive platform for organizations rejecting point solutions and fragmented backup strategies. The emphasis on “SaaS Plus”—combining cloud delivery with hybrid flexibility—acknowledges that most enterprises won’t fully migrate away from on-premises infrastructure for years. Metallic’s design philosophy accommodates this reality rather than working against it.

The expansion into Salesforce, Oracle, and Teams protection addresses the specific applications driving business value for modern enterprises. Similarly, HyperScale X at the edge acknowledges that some organizations need physical hardware for performance, compliance, or latency reasons—marking a pragmatic approach to hybrid cloud that respects diverse operational requirements rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all mandate.