Simplifying Your Migration to Amazon S3 Tables with Clumio
An automated, scalable, and resilient option for enterprise data lakehouse modernization.
AI and analytics are driving competitive advantage across every industry. At the heart of this transformation are data lakehouses built on Apache Iceberg, now one of the fastest-growing standards for structured data on object storage such as Amazon S3. From retail and healthcare to finance and tech, Iceberg is powering the pipelines that fuel AI-driven insights.
But while adoption is surging, resilience has not kept pace. Native Iceberg tools weren’t built for long-term protection. They fall short when it comes to compliance, ransomware resilience, and rapid recovery. For businesses, that gap means more than data loss – it can result in regulatory fines, flawed AI models, and costly downtime that undermines innovation.
When Native Tools Fail: A Financial Firm's Story
Global financial services firm processing billions of trades. With native Iceberg snapshots, too many snapshots create performance bottlenecks, and recovering to an event from five months ago requires a slow, manual process.
Why Generic S3 Backups Aren't Enough
Some organizations turn to standard S3 backup tools as a workaround. While these can be air-gapped, they copy data files but don’t preserve the relationships that define an Iceberg table.
That means recovery isn’t a simple restore – it’s a complex, manual “rewiring” process to rebuild the entire table structure. For a financial firm with billions of trades, that translates into extended downtime, higher costs, and potential data loss.
Clumio can eliminate this problem by natively understanding Iceberg, enabling recovery that is fast, accurate, and transactionally consistent.
A Smart Path Forward: Clumio for Apache Iceberg
Commvault is closing this gap with the industry’s first and only solution to deliver Iceberg-aware, air-gapped cyber resilience: Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS.
Here’s what makes it different:
- Unlimited retention without performance hits – adhere to long-term compliance requirements without slowing down production environments.
- Air-gapped, immutable protection – designed to defend against ransomware, account compromise, and accidental deletions.
- Fast, Iceberg-aware recovery – ability to restore to any point in time or named snapshot with full table integrity.
- Cross-region and cross-account recovery – extend resilience across AWS environments for verifiable disaster recovery.
- Cost-efficient, incremental backups – enables capturing only changes to minimize costs while scaling with massive workloads.
Read the announcement in our press release for more details.
| Capability | Native Iceberg Snapshots | Generic S3 Backups | Clumio for Apache Iceberg |
| Retention | Limited, performance bottlenecks | Long-term possible, file level only | Unlimited, cost-effective, built for compliance |
| Air gap | ✗ Same AWS account | ✓ Can be air-gapped, not Iceberg-aware | ✓ Air-gapped, immutable vault |
| Recovery process | Manual, older snapshots | Manual “rewiring” of metadata | Fast, automated, Iceberg-aware recovery |
| Data integrity | Transactionally consistent, governance risk | No Iceberg metadata understanding | Transactionally consistent, full fidelity restores |
| Enterprise scale | Impractical long-term | Brittle at scale | Proven at petabyte scale with billions of objects |
Why It Matters for Your Business
Clumio doesn’t just protect files – it can safeguard your AI and analytics investments so they can deliver results. This new capability helps enterprises:
- Accelerate AI innovation with confidence by protecting the data fueling critical pipelines.
- Avoid compliance penalties with unlimited, cost-effective snapshot retention.
- Recover in minutes, not days, thanks to Iceberg-aware automation that is designed to eliminate brittle, manual processes.
- Strengthen cyber resilience with actual air-gapped protection against ransomware and insider threats.
Building Resilience into the Future
As data lakehouses become the backbone of digital business, resilience shouldn’t be an afterthought. With Clumio for Apache Iceberg on AWS, enterprises finally have a solution that matches the scale, speed, and criticality of their AI and analytics workloads.
Because in the end, it’s not just about protecting data. It’s about protecting your business.
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