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AI-Driven Disaster Recovery: From Runbooks to Autonomous DR Drills

Disaster Recovery (DR) has traditionally been the “eat your vegetables” of IT operations: universally acknowledged as vital, but often neglected until a crisis forces the issue. In the pre-agentic era, DR testing was a high-stakes, high-effort event—a “Game Day” that required weeks of coordination, executive sign-off, and often a weekend of anxious monitoring. The result? Most organizations test their full DR plans annually at best. Between these rare tests, infrastructure drifts, configurations change, and the “tested” recovery plan slowly decays into fiction. ...

February 21, 2026 · 67 AI Lab