As the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) begins, disaster recovery and backup have been clearly identified as key areas of development. The plan calls for advancing system construction and strengthening cybersecurity protection for industrial control systems, as well as for emerging technologies and applications.
This not only establishes a security baseline for the development of the digital economy at the national level, but also sends a clear signal: in the digital era, disaster recovery and backup are no longer simply about “backing up data and restoring it when problems occur.” Instead, they are about building digital resilience that supports industrial development and safeguards digital sovereignty.
Why does the 15th Five-Year Plan place such importance on disaster recovery and backup? The answer lies in the realities of today’s digital economy.
In the current digital environment, risks extend far beyond traditional single-system failures or natural disasters. Ransomware attacks have become routine, system complexity is increasing exponentially, and AI applications such as OpenClaw are continuously expanding the boundaries of cybersecurity protection. Meanwhile, industrial control systems—critical national infrastructure—must operate securely, as their stability directly affects the foundations of key industries.
In the past, enterprises implemented disaster recovery mainly to meet compliance requirements, focusing on data retention and post-incident recovery. Today, the core objective has evolved from “ensuring data is not lost” to “ensuring continuous business operations,” and from “post-incident remediation” to “proactive risk prevention.” This transformation represents the true essence of digital resilience.
The shortcomings of traditional disaster recovery models have already been exposed in today’s risk landscape. They rely heavily on manually designed processes based on experience and respond passively after problems occur. Recovery times are often long, adaptability is limited, and such approaches struggle to cope with intelligent cyberattacks and complex system failures.
The disaster recovery and backup system construction required by the 15th Five-Year Plan essentially represents a reconstruction of this model. Instead of pursuing a single “disaster recovery” capability, the goal is to build an adaptive, perceptive, and self-healing intelligent resilience system. This is also the fundamental reason why Info2soft proposes upgrading the industry from “disaster recovery” to “intelligent resilience.”
The transition from “disaster recovery” to “intelligent resilience” is not simply a matter of adding technologies; it represents a fundamental transformation in data protection philosophy and architecture. By deeply integrating AI with data replication technologies, Info2soft has developed an AI-driven resilience architecture, precisely aligning with the disaster recovery and backup construction requirements of the 15th Five-Year Plan:
- At the perception layer, the system enables early prediction by integrating streaming data and logs. Leveraging machine learning and industry large models, intelligent fault prediction models transform traditional passive alerts into proactive risk insights, allowing risks to be identified at their earliest stages.
- At the decision and execution layer, the system achieves intelligent adaptation. Centered on a dynamic strategy engine, reinforcement learning is used to combine real-time environmental data with historical drill data, automatically optimizing recovery paths and resource scheduling. This reduces reliance on manual intervention and ensures recovery strategies better match real-world scenarios.
- At the implementation layer, the system delivers closed-loop iteration. Through continuous simulation of failure scenarios and disaster recovery drills, the system accumulates experience and continuously enhances its self-healing capabilities, ultimately achieving the goal of continuous business operations with no disruption to user experience.
- Of course, this “intelligent resilience” system is not merely conceptual—it is supported by practical products and real-world implementations.
Info2soft has built a comprehensive product portfolio centered on i2Backup, i2CDP, and i2Availability, delivering full-chain capabilities ranging from intelligent backup for massive datasets, second-level continuous data protection, to one-click failover and efficient cross-platform data mobility. In the event of cyberattacks, system failures, or disasters, these solutions enable automatic and rapid failover and recovery.
At the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is important to recognize that disaster recovery and backup system construction is never just an isolated technical project. Rather, it represents a strategic initiative tied to enterprise core competitiveness and national digital sovereignty.
For enterprises, digital resilience is no longer merely an “emergency tool,” but an essential capability for digital transformation. In an environment where technological risks and market volatility coexist, only organizations with the ability to respond rapidly and maintain continuous operations can remain competitive.
For the nation, advancing disaster recovery and backup system construction and strengthening digital resilience infrastructure across countries, cities, and industries is essential for safeguarding the stable development of the digital economy. It is also a critical step in enhancing independent innovation capabilities and securing digital sovereignty.
Especially in the era of large AI models and industrial intelligence, the secure retention, traceability, and recoverability of massive volumes of high-quality data have become the foundation for technological breakthroughs. Digital resilience provides the underlying infrastructure that safeguards and supports these innovations.
As the 15th Five-Year Plan begins, the direction for disaster recovery and backup system construction has become increasingly clear: from passive disaster recovery to proactive intelligent resilience, and from isolated disaster recovery capabilities to comprehensive digital resilience. This is not only an inevitable industry trend but also a necessary path for the high-quality development of the digital economy.
With “data resilience infrastructure” at its core, Info2soft will continue to rely on its four major product lines—disaster recovery, backup, big data, and cloud data management—to deeply integrate AI with digital resilience. By building a resilient foundation powered by intelligent resilience, Info2soft aims to support digital transformation across industries and ultimately safeguard national digital sovereignty and industrial competitiveness.