Veeam, a data backup company, is expanding its business beyond backup and cyber resilience into a "data and AI trust" platform, Techzine reported on Tuesday, citing CEO Anand Eswaran (아난드 에스와란).

Veeam bought Securiti AI late last year for $1.725 billion and, based on that, launched the DataAI Command Platform, the report said.

Eswaran said backup and cyber resilience remain its core business, but new products are needed in the era of agentic AI. He said people were always at the center in the era of backup and cyber resilience, but in the new era the actor is not a person. He said a completely different structure is needed for the speed and influence brought by the agent era.

Companies operate an average of 82 autonomous AI agents per employee, Eswaran said. Of these, 97% have "excessive privileges" that effectively allow access to all corporate data. He cited a case in which the coding agent PocketOS deleted an operational database and backups in 9 seconds.

Rather than monitoring agents, Veeam opted for a structure that places control in the data itself and attaches identity verification throughout the full data lifecycle. Based on that approach, the DataAI Command Platform integrates data, access rights, identity and AI into a single trust layer.

Veeam recently posted annual recurring revenue of $2.1 billion. Eswaran projected ARR would soon rise to several billion dollars, helped by the spread of the new platform.