World Backup Day 2025: The Critical Role of Data Protection in an AI-Driven Era

World Backup Day: A Crucial Reminder to Safeguard Data in a Digital-First Era

"In an era where AI adoption accelerates and IT infrastructures grow increasingly complex, ensuring seamless data availability and resilience has become paramount. Cyber threats, system failures, and stringent compliance mandates necessitate robust backup and disaster recovery strategies -- not merely as safeguards, but as business imperatives. Lenovo's ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions are meticulously engineered to meet these evolving demands. They provide secure, scalable, and AI-ready infrastructure that ensures continuous data protection." "As AI workloads expand exponentially, enterprises require intelligent systems capable of not only storing and processing vast data volumes but also safeguarding against disruptions. Our backup and disaster recovery solutions integrate advanced automation and cyber resilience, facilitating rapid recovery and maintaining operational continuity. For instance, the integration of Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions helps mitigate ransomware attacks by keeping backups secure in immutable repositories, enabling swift and effective restoration of compromised data. A modern backup strategy transcends mere recovery; it embodies proactive resilience. This World Backup Day serves as a reminder that data protection must evolve in tandem with the technologies driving digital transformation. By adopting future-ready infrastructure and intelligent backup solutions, enterprises can mitigate risks, enhance security, and ensure that data remains their most reliable asset in an AI-driven world," - Amit Luthra, Managing Director, Lenovo ISG India

World Backup Day 2025: How Crucial is Data Restore in This AI-Driven Era?

As the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions have been embracing in massive numbers, the approach of organizations toward data protection has also changed. Addressing this part, Pure Storage's Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific & Japan, Nathan Hall, has mentioned that in this age of cyber crimes, backing up data is not enough. Therefore, organizations must stress restoring data. Talking about this, he further brings an example of Singapore's Enterprise Compute Initiative and mentions that Kroll's 2025 Financial Crime Report has already noted that 82% of senior management in the region expect an increase in financial crime in 2025. Hall emphasizes that data loss is not only a minor setback, but its implications are much wider than that. As per him, "Data loss is not just an inconvenience -- it can severely damage trust, cripple productivity, and compromise compliance." Amit Luthra, managing director of Lenovo ISG India, almost repeated the same words about . While talking about Lenovo's strategies to fight data leaks, he stated, "In an era where AI adoption accelerates and IT infrastructures grow increasingly complex, ensuring seamless data availability and resilience has become paramount. Cyber threats, system failures, and stringent compliance mandates necessitate robust backup and disaster recovery strategies -- not merely as safeguards, but as business imperatives." Further emphasizing his point, he revealed, "Lenovo's ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions are meticulously engineered to meet these evolving demands. They provide secure, scalable, and AI-ready infrastructure that ensures continuous data protection."