In 2025, strengthening cyber resilience and improving cyber recovery dominate nearly every IT priority list, typically surpassing even artificial intelligence in importance. In an era defined by distributed application and data environments along with increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats, traditional protection and recovery techniques have become too bulky to keep pace.

Commvault’s Cloud Rewind announcement from the second half of last year, based on technology from its Appranix acquisition, offers a glimpse into how businesses must adjust their expectations regarding what constitutes modern resilience. Cloud application environments have become business-critical for the typical enterprise, and they must be priorities for resilience efforts. In addition, those efforts must focus on accelerating recovery of core business operations—not just traditional application or data set recovery, but also recovery of complementary elements such as networking.