It’s finally here! DPM’s AI-Enhanced Resilience research gets its first public look this week at Disaster Recovery Journal, before it’s seen anywhere else. To do some mythbusting, we asked IT leaders whether the AI in their backup, DR, and cyber tools is “mostly marketing” or “actually transformative” (or somewhere in between), and their answers could fuel what you look for in vendors’ roadmaps for 2027. Here’s your sneak peek.
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DPM’s latest survey asked IT leaders about where they expect AI to improve their resilience AND how they look at improving the resilience of their AI. Today, DPM is unveiling its ‘first look’ at its AI-Enhanced Resilience research at this year’s Disaster Recovery Journal 2026 Fall Conference — so here is your sneak peek.
Better than 3 out of 4 orgs are likely to consider replacing or supplementing their existing backup solution in order to strengthen their cyber resilience. Similarly, when we asked folks whose CURRENT backup solution utilizes AI capabilities, they said that their top recognizable benefit is their improved cyber/anomaly detection, followed closely by the ability to identify clean recovery points.
Not everything in the survey was about cyber resilience centric. We also looked at:
- How AI is affecting broader business resilience goals.
- How buyers anticipate AI will change their simulations, testing, and other preparedness activities.
- How production and protection AI is being managed and is governed.
One of the more interesting questions was around the expectations of using general-purpose AI assistants like Claude or ChatGPT to manage your backup, your DR, or your cyber technologies. Is that a nice-to-have, definitely would use it, or anticipated to be a game changer? With nearly every resilience vendor talking about either how their platform has AI in it or they have an MCP so you can use your AI with it, there was a lot to unpack from an IT leader perspective: “what matters?”
It would be easy to just focus on the tech in a study like this, but it is critical that we don’t forget the humanity and operational considerations. So, we asked senior leaders how they expected roles would change between backup, BC/DR, and cyber — including the likelihood for roles to be eliminated … or reassigned … or reimagined across various resilience personas.
Easily one of my most favorite questions, because I like myth-busting and separating hype from practical benefit, we asked folks whether the AI features in their current resilience solutions were “Mostly marketing” or “Transformative to how they work” (or somewhere in-between). That question alone, when cut against some of the others, was worth the price of the survey.
DPM will be working through the data analysis, to and through its sponsors, during its exclusivity period – and we look forward to sharing more of the results with our subscribers, through some Forbes articles, some new year content, and venues like this one soon after.
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