When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence today, the excitement is often shadowed by fear. As organizations push toward Safe Enterprise AI, the promise of transformative insights, faster decision-making, and efficiency is matched by concerns around trust, governance, and control. AI is only as reliable as the data it runs on, and nearly 90% of enterprise AI initiatives fail because data is untrusted, fragmented, or inadequately governed. Enter Veeam’s $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI, a move widely viewed as the defining acquisition of the AI era.

TECHx Media sat down with Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam, and Rehan Jalil, founder of Securiti AI, now Veeam’s President of Security and AI, to unpack how this union is set to create the industry’s first unified platform for safe, governed, and resilient enterprise AI.

When AI Meets Real-World Data Chaos

“AI without trusted data is a recipe for disaster,” Anand opens, setting the tone. “There is no AI without data security, and there is no trust in AI without data resilience.”

The challenge is enormous: enterprise data is sprawling, siloed, and unstructured. From customer records and healthcare data to proprietary operational insights, the information powering AI is often scattered across thousands of systems. Adding AI into the mix amplifies risk, if governance, privacy, and compliance are not meticulously enforced, the results could be catastrophic.

The solution? A single, unified platform that provides visibility, security, compliance, and recovery across all layers of enterprise data, primary and secondary, structured and unstructured, on-premises and cloud.

The $1.725 Billion Move That Shook the Industry

Rehan Jalil recounts the origin of the acquisition: “We were on our path to raise funding when Anand reached out. The conversation clicked, our visions aligned perfectly. More importantly, the market desperately needed this capability. By joining forces, we could accelerate our go-to-market strategy and take the combined companies to heights we couldn’t have achieved alone.”

Eswaran adds perspective: “This isn’t just the biggest acquisition of recent times in monetary terms. It’s historic because it addresses the core challenge enterprises face in adopting AI safely and at scale.”

Building a Unified Platform: Visibility, Security, and Resilience

At the heart of the Veeam-Securiti AI integration is a platform designed to see everything, secure everything, and recover anything. Enterprises now gain:

• Unified visibility across all forms of data, enabling real-time understanding of AI pipelines.
• Zero-trust security and continuous governance to ensure compliance with local and international regulations.
• Clean, granular recovery of datasets, embeddings, and model weights, even if AI mishaps occur.

“Think of AI as a Ferrari engine,” Anand explains. “It’s powerful, but without wheels and brakes, it’s dangerous. Our platform is the governance system, the steering, and the braking mechanism that allows organizations to safely race ahead with AI.”

Safe AI: Beyond Compliance, Toward Trust

Safe AI is more than technical compliance; it’s about trust, human rights, and precision.

Rehan emphasizes: “If AI generates an answer and gives it to the wrong person, you’ve leaked sensitive information. Safe AI ensures that data is used appropriately, outputs are authorized, and human rights are preserved.”

Key mechanisms include:

• Identity and policy travel with data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to backup to AI pipelines.
• Automated enforcement of rules, ensuring no breach or unintended data exposure occurs.
• Precision recovery for AI errors or poisoned models, avoiding blunt interventions like “kill switches” that could erase months of work.

Eswaran elaborates, “Precision is everything. Mistakes will happen, agents may act unpredictably, models may fail, but the ability to undo bad actions without erasing progress is what makes AI adoption safe.”

Tangible Benefits for Enterprises

Adopting AI has always been a balancing act: enterprises risk data leakage if they proceed recklessly, or fall behind competitors if they don’t use AI at all. The Veeam-Securiti AI platform removes this dilemma:

• Automated governance and compliance across global frameworks like DORA, NIST, HIPAA, and local regulations in 144 countries.
• Comprehensive data visibility for structured, unstructured, primary, and secondary data.
• Zero-trust security for AI pipelines.
• Rapid recovery and resilience, undoing errors with surgical precision.

Imagine a hospital using AI to predict patient outcomes. This platform ensures sensitive health data is never exposed while providing AI-driven insights instantly, a real-world example of safe AI in action.

Seven Days to Proof: A Live Demo That Wowed the Industry

In a remarkable demonstration, just seven days after the acquisition announcement, Veeam showcased:

• End-to-end visibility of live and backup data in a single knowledge graph.
• Real-time detection of mishaps caused by AI agents.
• Precise, clean recovery of data, pipelines, and model weights, executed in seconds.

“The speed and completeness of integration rarely happen in mergers,” Anand notes. “Engineering synergies, cultural alignment, and a shared product-first mindset have allowed us to deliver a fully functional, unified platform almost immediately.”

The Future of Enterprise AI

With Securiti AI’s 600 employees joining Veeam, the combined platform is poised to define the future of AI-driven enterprise data management. Key advantages going forward:

• Enterprises can adopt AI confidently, without fear of breaches, misuse, or compliance violations.
• Companies gain a unified command center for visibility, governance, and recovery.
• Safe AI adoption is no longer aspirational, it’s operational, measurable, and precise.

Rehan sums it up: “Our mission is accelerating safe AI at scale. This platform is the vehicle to achieve it.”

Eswaran adds, “Enterprises now have control over their data and can adopt intelligent systems securely and confidently. The era of AI without trust is over.”

By the Numbers

• $1.725 billion acquisition completed.
• 600 Securiti AI employees join Veeam.
• Platform now serves 550,000+ customers, including 82% of the Fortune 500.
• 90% of enterprise AI projects fail without trusted, governed data.

The Era of Trusted AI Begins

The Veeam-Securiti AI acquisition is more than a transaction, it’s a blueprint for the future of AI in enterprises. By merging resilience, security, governance, and AI trust, Veeam has created the world’s first platform that enables safe, scalable, and confident AI adoption.

Enterprises no longer need to choose between risk and innovation. With Veeam and Securiti AI, safe AI is not just possible, it’s here.

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