Mainstage keynote session
Why Point Solutions Fail: ResOps & Commvault Cloud Unity for AI-Ready Enterprises
In this SHIFT 2025 keynote, Anna Griffin, Chief Market Officer at Commvault, explains why traditional point solutions fail in the age of AI. Discover howResOpsand Commvault Cloud Unity deliver continuous, enterprise-grade resilience for modern, AI-ready organizations.
Key Takeaways
- AI Outpaces Readiness
AI adoption is accelerating faster than enterprise preparedness, creating gaps in security, governance, and resilience. - Ransomware Is AI-Powered
Attackers use AI to automate, scale, and personalize ransomware, increasing speed, impact, and complexity. - Multi-Cloud Fragmentation
Distributed data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments reduces visibility and increases risk. - Point Solutions Fail
Disconnected tools increase operational complexity and prevent unified cyber recovery and identity resilience. - ResOps HelpsEnableContinuity
ResOps helpsdelivercontinuous, automated resilience rather than one-time recovery projects. - Unity Unifies Resilience
Commvault Cloud Unity integrates clean data, cyber recovery, identity protection, and AI-enabledautomation at scale.
About This Demo
The Readiness Gap
AI adoption has accelerated beyond organizational readiness, creating fragmented environments lacking consistent data hygiene, governance, and security controls. This gap increases exposure across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
Escalating Ransomware Risk
AI-powered ransomware enables attackers to move faster and more precisely. Because AI systems depend on trusted data, even smallcorruptionscan undermine business operations and decision-making.
The Failure of Point Solutions
Fragmented security, identity, and data protection toolsfail todeliver unified resilience. Instead of reducing risk, stitched-together products increase complexity, slow response times, and create blind spots.
WhyResOpsIs Required
ResOps replacesstatic, one-time recovery approaches with an always-on operationalmodel.By unifying cyber security, identity resilience, data protection, and recovery workflows,ResOps helps enablecontinuous trust and availability.
The Role of Cloud Unity
Commvault Cloud Unity provides a complete, unified resilience platform for AI-ready enterprises–integrating cyber recovery, identity protection, threat intelligence, and clean data pipelines to reduce complexity and strengthen security.
AI Ready Data Protection
Commvault Cloud brings AI and machine learning to data protection, accelerating recovery and reducing risk.
Protect & Leverage AI
Protect AI workloads while using AI-enabled intelligence to strengthen cyber resilience.
AI Data Resilience
Enterprise-grade resilience for the AIstackacross hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is ResOps, and why is it essential for AI-enabled organizations?
ResOpsis a continuous, operational approach to resilience thathelpsunifydata security, identity protection, cyber recovery, and threat response. Instead of treating resilience as a one-time solution,ResOpsestablishes an always-on posture thathelpsenable organizationstomaintainclean, trustworthy data for their AI systems.
How does AI amplify ransomware risk?
AI enables attackers to automate targeting, adapt attacks in real time, and scale operations, making ransomware faster, stealthier, and more damaging to AI-dependent businesses.
Why has AI increased fragmentation for enterprises?
AI adoption often outpaces updates to security and governance frameworks, spreading data across clouds and platforms,and creating visibility gaps attackers can exploit.
Why do point solutions fail to deliver resilience?
Point solutionsoperatein silos, increasing complexity and preventing unified recovery, identity governance, and clean data assurance.
How does Commvault Cloud Unity address these challenges?
Unityhelpsunifycyber recovery, identity resilience, and AI-enabledautomation in a single platform designed for continuous resilience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Pranay, absolutely outstanding.
Rajiv, Pranay, incredible.
Thank you.
Now look, as, really.
As Sanjay said, the pace of AI adoption has outpaced readiness.
And it has created an absolutely impossible reality of fragmentation, complexity,
vulnerability for our customers.
That constant threat of ransomware amplified by AI is now exponentially even more
challenging with the issues that come with betting everything on AI.
That’s why the industry needs a new approach, and that’s why it needs ResOps
Because resilience can no longer be a one-time fix.
It has to be continuous, active, operational posture in your company, creating a single
source of clean data for that AI-driven enterprise.
The stakes are high.
And the industry has been challenged to deliver ResOps Why?
Because they want to stitch together a bunch of point products,
solutions, across clouds, entities, and systems for cyber, for identity, and recovery,
multiple clouds.
This just adds more complexity.
Well, that ends today.
Because the answer is not another tool or a half-baked idea or a not ready for prime time
promise that our category loves to hype and promote.
The answer is a real platform that’s here.
And it’s ready now.
And that’s Commvault Cloud Unity.
This is how the enterprise will move forward with confidence and how they’ll move forward
with Commvault.