What Does Disaster Recovery Look Like in an AI-Centric World?
ITPro, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
ITPro examines how disaster recovery must change as AI models, RAG data and third-party AI APIs become operational infrastructure.
ITPro looks at disaster recovery now that AI has become operational infrastructure for many businesses.
It cites overlapping outages at OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI in early September that lasted around two to three hours as a warning that key AI dependencies sit outside an organization's control.
Beyond restoring applications and data, recovery may now cover models, RAG data, prompts, configurations, identity systems and third-party APIs.
The article raises questions about what counts as a critical recoverable service, how to handle AI components that cannot be restored in-house, and how to confirm a recovered AI workload is fit for production, drawing on IDC's Johnny Yu and Omdia's Todd Thiemann.