Continuity, cyber recovery, compliance, and sovereignty each grew their own stack with a backup array here, a DR site there, GRC tooling bolted on, and copies scattered across jurisdictions. The seams between them are where resilience fails.
Operational Resilience
Keep Running, Recover Clean, and Stay in Control
Attacks, outages, audits, and residency mandates are operating conditions now, not edge cases you plan for once a year. Resilience cannot be a slow tier you fall back to after the damage is done. VAST builds continuity, recovery, governance, and sovereignty into the primary platform. It's a property of the system, not a stack bolted around it.
The Resilience Gap
Four Kinds of Disruption, Four Separate Silos to Survive Them
Recovery Measured in Days
Restoring petabytes from disk or tape runs sequentially, so a fully encrypted estate turns a bad day into a multi-week outage while revenue and trust drain away.
Backups and Controls You Cannot Trust
Attackers hit the backups first, and audit trails stitched together after the fact can't prove what happened. If your recovery copy or your evidence can be altered, neither one counts.
Continuity and Sovereignty That Cost Twice
A warm DR site idles at full cost, and meeting data-residency rules usually means yet another copy in yet another region — paying repeatedly for capacity that mostly waits.