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Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran says the company’s future is filling the AI stack’s missing layer

Agentic AI is outrunning its biggest vulnerability — and a $7B data protection company just pivoted to fix it.

Reporting by SiliconAngle 1 min brief
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As AI agents proliferate in production, enterprise security leaders are waking up to a critical gap: AI systems lack a trust/verification layer. Veeam's pivot from backup to 'AI trust infrastructure' signals where enterprise AI capex is flowing next.

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  1. Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran positioning company around 'AI trust layer' as new category

  2. Agentic AI adoption outpacing security/trust infrastructure

  3. 20-year-old backup vendor pivoting to AI-native category

  4. Focus on data protection for AI systems rather than traditional recovery

  5. Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran positioning company as 'AI trust layer' provider

  6. Shift from 20-year backup/recovery focus to new AI trust category

  7. Agentic AI framed as outrunning trust/safety infrastructure

  8. Published May 15, 2026 on SiliconANGLE

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Publisher excerpt: Agentic AI might be outrunning the one thing it needs most — an AI trust layer. That challenge is reshaping the ambitions of companies long anchored in data protection. Veeam Software Group GmbH, which spent two decades building the market’s most widely adopted backup and recovery platform, is now…
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