In this interview from VeeamON 2026 in New York City, Anand Eswaran, president and chief executive officer of Veeam, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante and Krista Case to discuss the company's pivot from data resilience leader to the defining data and AI trust layer for the agentic era. Eswaran explains how the rise of AI agents exposed a critical gap in the enterprise technology stack – the absence of a unified trust layer between the data fabric and the model layer. He details the response: the DataAI Command Platform, which consolidates data security, governance, compliance, privacy and resilience on a single system. At its core is a Data Command Graph, built on technology from the Securiti AI acquisition, that visualizes data at a granular element level across 300-plus connectors, mapping every identity and AI system touching enterprise data to enable what Eswaran describes as precision resilience. The conversation also explores how identity integration and autonomous agentic recovery extend Veeam's two-decade heritage of instant restore toward a goal of zero RTO and zero RPO. Eswaran connects that mission to the national cybersecurity posture articulated by keynote guest National Cybersecurity Director Cairncross, who framed resilience as a national security imperative requiring defense, offense and seamless recovery working in concert. He also pushes back on market narratives declaring software's terminal value to be zero, arguing that companies demonstrating clear agentic-era value will rebound strongly. With $2 billion in ARR, strong profitability and governance already built to public-company standards, Eswaran outlines why Veeam is positioned to power every organization's AI transformation – and why an IPO, on its own timeline, is the natural next milestone.