AI-Enhanced Resilience

for 2027

Independent research assessing how organizations want to use AI to evolve their backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience strategies by 2027.

Sponsorships Available Now • Project begins June 2026

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Why AI-Enhanced resilience Matters

Data Protection Matters (DPM) will assess enterprises’ Strategies and Trends in AI-enhanced Resilience (STAR) — focusing on where AI is realistically expected to impact backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience programs over the next several years.

The research is designed to move beyond marketing narratives and capture how organizations actually evaluate, prioritize, and adopt AI capabilities as part of their resilience strategies and planning processes.

What Topics are covered

The AI-Enhanced Resilience research survey will assess enterprise resilience stakeholders across IT and Information Security to understand where AI is expected to deliver real value, what concerns remain, and how buying decisions may shift.

Current data protection solutions and their AI capabilities (awareness vs. in use)
Which AI capabilities customers are most interested in and how they are prioritized (e.g., AI assistants, data mining, content-based policies, automation)
Motivators for AI adoption: need vs. want, and impact on buying or switching decisions
Perceptions of organizational AI utilization, including benefits, risks, and concerns

Ownership of AI enablement across IT, security, and operations teams
Cloud and MSP platforms in use today and how AI capabilities influence platform selection
Anticipated budget shifts in 2026 and 2027 related to AI and cyber resilience initiatives

how you can engage

DPM will invite up to four (4) co-sponsors, ideally representing non-overlapping segments of the cyber/data resilience ecosystem, such as:

Backup software provider
Hyperscaler or cloud platform
Managed service provider (MSP)
Storage vendor
Detection/monitoring provider

Each co-sponsor will receive co-exclusive access to data cuts relevant to their segment.

wHY THIS wILL BENEFIT YOU

Input into survey framing and focus areas
Early access to research findings
Private debriefs supporting GTM strategy and enablement
A complementary marketing asset drawing from AI-Enhanced Resilience research data
Independent research that strengthens sponsor narratives without promotional bias

when it will happen

Sponsorships Available starting April 2026
Survey Fieldwork Begins: June 2026
Initial Data Available For Sponsor Debriefs: August 2026
First Public Publications: September 2026

Interested in Participating in AI-Enhanced Resilience Research?

This research offers sponsors early, credible insight into how AI is shaping the future of data and cyber resilience — grounded in real enterprise sentiment and independent analysis.

Sponsorship opportunities are limited.

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About Data Protection Matters

Data Protection Matters (DPM) delivers independent research and insight on backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience.

Led by industry analyst and speaker Jason Buffington, DPM helps vendors and service providers understand how organizations actually plan, buy, and operationalize resilience.