As AI agents flood the enterprise, trust becomes one true bedrock: theCUBE’s VeeamON keynote analysis

AI trust infrastructure is quickly becoming a critical requirement as enterprises scale intelligent systems across their operations. The focus is shifting from simple data protection to securing, governing and building resilience into AI-driven environments at scale.

At the VeeamON 2026 event, Veeam Software Group GmbH sought to respond to those trends, positioning itself beyond its roots as a backup and recovery stalwart toward AI governance and data security. Two decades down the line for the company, Veeam Chief Executive Officer Anand Eswaran used the event’s opening keynote to look back on the various technology eras it has moved through — with an eye squarely on future of agents, according to theCUBE’s Dave Vellante (pictured, right).

“Veeam has always been there with the latest trend, making it really simple, taking tough operational problems and simplifying them. They went from virtualization and obviously cloud [and] containers,” Vellante said. “Now, of course, they’re talking heavily [about] the agentic era.”

Vellante and theCUBE’s Krista Case (left) broke down the major themes in a keynote analysis at the VeeamON event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Veeam’s evolution, the growing importance of AI trust infrastructure, as well as the expanding role of cyber resilience and data security in enterprise AI environments. (* Disclosure below.)

AI trust infrastructure in focus

The keynote focused heavily on the growing need for AI governance as enterprises scale AI adoption. Building on its foundation in data backup and its expanding push into data security, Veeam is cognizant that what it takes to secure the AI stack will depend on certain key factors, according to Case.

“The first is that we really need to home in on the context of data in terms of how sensitive and valuable [it is],” Case said. “Secondly, we really need to make sure that it is recoverable and very resilient from that standpoint. I see this as a move from Veeam to really be evolving from those backup roots into this new domain.”

Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti Inc. underscores just how seriously the company is taking this evolution, adding data security posture management and AI security posture management capabilities to its existing strengths in backup, instant recovery and incident response, Case noted. The move also reflects a broader shift in how enterprises must think about security as AI agents proliferate across the organization, with Eswaran presenting “three triggers” during the keynote on why AI trust infrastructure has become so critical, Vellante added.

“He said 81% of enterprises are running agents. That’s interesting — half of them probably don’t even know they’re doing that,” he said. “The second [trigger] was infrastructure spend is enormous, $3 trillion by 2028; 82 agents for every human. That’s the trend that we’re going to see. [Trigger] number three is that that infrastructure that’s trusted hasn’t been delivered yet. The trust perimeter is gone — AI changes all that. It melts that trust perimeter and that is the new bottleneck.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VeeamON event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the VeeamON event. Sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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