Disaster recovery has always been the last sector of IT to modernize, and honestly, there’s a reason for that. When a disaster strikes and customers are hammering your inbox, no IT leader wants to gamble on whether an AI agent correctly understood which critical resources to prioritize or what load balancer to restore in order to get back to a healthy production state. I’ve spent 15 years working with cloud backup and disaster recovery (DR) teams, helping them evolve their procedures, and I can vouch for the skepticism within these cloud ops teams. They have good reason to hesitate jumping on the agentic AI train.

Full opinion : Is the high-stakes disaster recovery arena the final frontier for agentic AI?