Commvault SHIFT Prague bookends worldwide resilience roadshows with success
SHIFT Prague was a high-level tech event focused on AI-driven cyber resilience and modern data protection strategies
The Commvault Shift event in Prague on January 27 featured executive perspectives on the AI imperative alongside real-world resilience strategies across Finance, Healthcare, and Critical Infrastructure. Speakers at SHIFT Prague represented the very best from Commvault, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, ExaGrid, Hitachi Vantara, and leading customer organizations across the CEE region.
Commvault Systems, the American cyber resilience and data protection software company, has been running SHIFT, a global cyber resilience roadshow in 40 key business locations across the world. The event in Prague featured insights from Commvault leadership, driving the next standard of cyber resilience and Microsoft & ecosystem partners on AI-driven cyber resilience, customers and operators sharing practical, real-world use cases.
The major keynote of the day was entitled ‘The AI Imperative – Resilience Re-imagined’ from Fady Richmany, Corporate Vice President & General Manager, Emerging Markets – CEE, CIS and META – Commvault.
Richmany outlined the size of the threat that cybercrime now poses to digital businesses: ransomware is estimated to be a $10.5 trillion global crisis. Although a criminal activity, that sum makes it the third largest economy in the world – the World Economic Forum has declared cybersecurity and cybercrime as one of the biggest global risks.
New cyber risks are unfortunately being introduced alongside innovative technologies like Generative AI and, particularly Agentic AI. At the same time, said Richmany, many businesses might feel compelled to adopt AI solutions to maintain a competitive edge, when their management systems use legacy technologies and the skills of today, not those of tomorrow. Business security is now potentially more compromised than ever because their data are also now highly distributed across many different clouds, SaaS applications, data lakes, DevOps pipelines, endpoints, and more.
But AI is driving trillions in expected economic value – it’s no longer experimental – it’s now core to our businesses, said Fady Richmany. He talked about the need for ‘operational resilience,’ and for ‘AI resilience.’ Now, Commvault have re-envisioned the challenges of AI with a new concept – ‘resilience operations’ – with resilience, in effect, running the business. To enact this new standard, Commvault have introduced ‘Unity,’ the next release of Commvault Cloud.
Richmany’s insights were followed by Commvault’s Ravi Baldev Singh, who explained in more detail about Unity in his presentation ‘The Next Standard of Resilience.’ Martin Sucharda, Sr. Solution Engineer – Cloud & AI Platform – Microsoft was an honored speaker next, and other speakers followed from HPE, GAPP Systems, Kooperativa pojišťovna a.s. and ExaGrid.
Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Regional Director, CEE and Country Manager, Greece – Commvault, and Anna Georgiadou, Assistant Director – Information Technology & Digitalization Department – Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO), discussed cyber resilience in highly critical infrastructures and very complex IT estates.
The event ended after further presentations from Lukáš Bělovský, Pre-Sales Solution Architect – Hitachi Vantara and closing remarks from Michal Gazdik, Sales Manager, Czech & Slovakia from Commvault.
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.
