Backup is no longer judged on whether data was copied, but on whether an organisation can come back from an attack. Writing for TechTarget, Tim McCarthy tracks how backup platforms are absorbing that shift, adding SaaS application protection, AI-driven anomaly detection and attack simulation. Krista Case of The Futurum Group frames the pressure plainly: the acceptable level of downtime keeps shrinking. Commvault’s Recovery Range, built with SimSpace, sits inside that movement, a crisis simulation letting customers test attack scenarios using data from their own environment and see how a specific threat would hit their workloads. Anomaly detection, notes Jerome Wendt of Data Center Intelligence Group, is still nascent and needs time to separate legitimate activity from attacks.
