AI and Backup: How Backup Products Leverage AI
ComputerWeekly, Thursday, August 28th, 2025
We look at how AI helps with backup, from AI analysis of backup jobs and their integrity through natural language support functionality to ransomware and anomaly detection
Software applications often list artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their feature sets, and data backup tools are no exception.
Software supplier use of AI and machine learning (ML) in this space is not new. Automation has been a feature of backup software for years.
Backup providers use machine learning and predictive analytics, in particular, to make backups more reliable and efficient. This includes use of ML to analyse logs to predict where a backup might fail, and to pick the best times and storage targets for backups.