What if the future of business resilience is not about making more copies, but about knowing which copies can still be trusted to keep your business operational?
As threats become more incisive and disasters more persistent, recovery can no longer be treated as a final step after protection has failed. The real challenge is to recognize what has changed, separate signal from noise, and find the moment in time when the business can safely begin again. Backup is becoming less about storage—and more about judgment, confidence, and the ability to recover from uncertainty.
This talk explores the forces reshaping your beloved TSM, aka Storage Protect and Defender Data Resilience through three connected market shifts. Do we need a new generation of backup agents that approaches data protection from a different direction? How can we help organizations examine their data, identify cyber threats, and uncover the recovery points that matter most?
Some technologies are back in vogue amidst the agentic swarm. Tape, long seen a technology of the yesteryears, returns to the center of the story—not as an afterthought, but as a reliable physical air gap and a foundation for long-term retention, compliance, and resilience. At the same time, the platform experience is being reimagined for AI where human and agentic users need to experience an equally simple, elegant, and intentional. A first-class, integrated platform with the intelligence and usability required for the future.
So, is this evolution—or revolution?
Perhaps it is both: the confidence of what has endured, combined with the courage to rethink what comes next.
