Mainstage keynote session | Anna Griffin

Why Point Solutions Fail: ResOps & Commvault Cloud Unity for AI-Ready Enterprises

Discover how ResOps is transforming enterprise resilience in the age of AI. In this powerful SHIFT 2025 keynote, Anna Griffin, Commvault’s Chief Market Officer, reveals why traditional data protection approaches are failing—and introduces Commvault Cloud Unity as the industry’s first true ResOps platform.

About This Session

AI adoption has accelerated beyond organizational readiness, creating a fragmented and vulnerable IT landscape. As enterprises rapidly embrace AI-driven workflows, many lack the foundational data hygiene, governance, and security controls needed to operate safely. This readiness gap leads to increased exposure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, where data fragmentation and operational complexity make organizations more susceptible to attacks and system failures.

Ransomware threats have intensified as attackers weaponize artificial intelligence, enabling faster, more targeted, and more evasive attacks. The risk landscape is evolving exponentially, and businesses relying heavily on AI are especially vulnerable because corrupted or untrusted data directly compromises AI models, insights, and decision-making. This shift highlights why traditional cyber resilience tactics are no longer sufficient for modern, AI-dependent enterprises.

Fragmented point solutions spread across clouds, identity systems, and security tools fail to provide unified cyber recovery or operational resilience. Instead of reducing risk, stitching together multiple products increases complexity, slows response times, and makes it impossible to maintain a single, reliable source of clean data. Many organizations attempting to build resilience through a patchwork approach find themselves overwhelmed by integrations, blind spots, and operational inefficiencies.

ResOps has emerged as the required operational model for continuous resilience, replacing outdated one-time fixes with an always-on, actively managed posture. By unifying cyber security, identity resilience, data protection, and recovery workflows, ResOps ensures enterprises can maintain clean, trustworthy data while supporting AI-driven operations. This continuous model is essential for organizations seeking to strengthen their security posture while preparing for the future of AI.

Commvault Cloud Unity delivers the comprehensive platform enterprises need to achieve real resilience in an AI-powered world. Unlike incomplete or fragmented solutions, Unity provides a fully developed, ready-to-deploy resilience platform that integrates cyber recovery, identity protection, threat intelligence, and clean data pipelines. With a unified architecture built for AI-driven enterprises, Commvault Cloud Unity enables organizations to reduce complexity, strengthen security, and confidently operate at the speed of modern AI adoption.

Key Takeaways

AI adoption is growing faster than enterprise preparedness, creating significant gaps in data security, identity protection, and operational resilience.
AI-powered ransomware attacks are escalating, with threat actors using artificial intelligence to automate, scale, and personalize cyberattacks.
Multi-cloud environments increase risk as data becomes fragmented across platforms, making visibility, governance, and protection more difficult.
Point solutions and stitched-together tools fail, leaving enterprises without unified cyber recovery, identity resilience, or end-to-end protection.
ResOps delivers continuous resilience, turning cyber recovery and identity security into an automated operational strategy rather than a one-time project.
Commvault Cloud Unity provides a unified resilience platform, combining clean data, AI-driven automation, cyber recovery, and identity protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is ResOps, and why is it essential for AI-driven organizations?

ResOps is a continuous, operational approach to resilience that unifies data security, identity protection, cyber recovery, and threat response. Instead of treating resilience as a one-time solution, ResOps establishes an always-on posture that ensures organizations maintain clean, trustworthy data for their AI systems. This ongoing model is critical for protecting enterprises in today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape.

How does AI amplify the threat of ransomware?

AI gives attackers new capabilities—such as automated targeting, adaptive behavior, and rapid exploitation—that make ransomware more sophisticated and harder to detect. Because AI systems rely heavily on clean, trusted data, even small disruptions or corruptions can have a cascading impact, making ransomware attacks far more damaging to AI-driven enterprises.

Why has AI adoption created more fragmentation and vulnerability for enterprises?

AI adoption is accelerating faster than most organizations can update their security, data governance, and resilience practices. As businesses integrate AI across multi-cloud environments, data becomes increasingly fragmented and complex, creating blind spots and vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit. Without a unified approach to securing and managing data, enterprises face heightened operational risk.

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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.