Cloud-Native Recovery Needs Automation, Not Manual Runbooks

Commvault's Govind Rangasamy on Recovery Models for Dynamic Cloud Environments Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 18, 2025

Cloud environments experiencing dozens of changes daily are rendering traditional disaster recovery approaches obsolete, creating significant risks for organizations unprepared for the new recovery paradigm, said Govind Rangasamy, vice president of portfolio marketing at Commvault.

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"The problem with [traditional] runbooks is that by the time you write the runbook … your environment has changed," Rangasamy said. "These environments are changing every minute, almost 50 times per day, and that becomes a problem. That's why the traditional runbook model doesn't work if you code everything dynamically, meaning in the age of AI."

A solution for this is "recovery as code" - an AI-driven approach that dynamically generates recovery processes tailored to the current state of cloud environments, he said. This approach is particularly critical for ...