Commvault has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to offer its AI and cyber resilience technology as a native ISV service on Azure, placing Commvault among a small group of software partners embedded directly within the Azure cloud platform. Under the arrangement, Azure customers will be able to discover, provision and integrate Commvault services from within Microsoft's cloud environment, giving a single experience across procurement, onboarding and operations without separate infrastructure or manual integrations. Customers using Azure for cloud and AI workloads can deploy and manage Commvault's resilience tools alongside existing Microsoft services, and can buy Commvault Cloud through the Microsoft Marketplace, applying that spending towards their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment. Banks, retailers and healthcare providers were highlighted as facing pressure to modernise infrastructure, manage cyber risk and support AI-led change. Sanjay Mirchandani, President and CEO of Commvault, said the collaboration is "taking that collaboration to the next level," while Girish Bablani, President of Azure Core at Microsoft, said supporting Commvault natively gives customers "more choice in how they protect and recover their data."