ResOps: The Next Era of Recovery Intelligence
Commvault, Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
ResOps is an emerging discipline that shifts recovery focus from infrastructure uptime to clean data restoration and cross-functional business alignment.
ResOps (Resilience Operations) represents a fundamental shift in how organizations approach recovery and cyber resilience, moving beyond traditional IT operations metrics like RTO and RPO to prioritize clean data recovery and business outcomes.
The discipline integrates security, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to break down organizational silos that hinder incident response. A new metric, Mean Time to Clean Recovery (MTCR), measures how quickly organizations can restore verified, trusted data rather than just bringing systems online. Success requires cross-functional alignment, updated recovery metrics, and treating resilience as an operational discipline rather than a technology solution.
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, the ability to recover cleanly and quickly becomes a critical competitive differentiator protecting revenue, reputation, and customer trust.