In this interview from VeeamON 2026 in New York City, Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research LLC, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante and Krista Case to discuss Veeam's bid to own the AI trust layer — the missing link between data protection and enterprise AI confidence. Kerravala argues that AI's promise of democratizing expertise remains unfulfilled because users still need deep domain knowledge to catch bad outputs, a problem rooted in unvalidated data. He explains how Veeam's acquisition of Securiti AI enables a unified control plane, consolidating data protection and security visibility into a single dashboard for governing how AI workloads access and use enterprise data.
The conversation also explores how CISOs are being pulled into data protection decisions they once treated as someone else's responsibility. Kerravala notes that ransomware recovery was Veeam's original bridge into the security ecosystem, but AI is now forcing a full convergence of data and security disciplines. He breaks down the growing risk of unsanctioned AI tool use and why enterprises increasingly need a validated, governed data layer before AI can deliver reliable results at scale. From the competitive dynamics — where hyperscalers, data platforms and security vendors are all converging on the same territory — to Veeam's positioning as the single platform spanning both sides of that equation, Kerravala makes the case that VeeamON 2026 marks a genuine inflection point for a company with the heritage, head start and IPO ambitions to pull it off.
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Zeus Kerravala, ZK Research
In this interview from VeeamON 2026 in New York City, Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research LLC, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante and Krista Case to discuss Veeam's bid to own the AI trust layer — the missing link between data protection and enterprise AI confidence. Kerravala argues that AI's promise of democratizing expertise remains unfulfilled because users still need deep domain knowledge to catch bad outputs, a problem rooted in unvalidated data. He explains how Veeam's acquisition of Securiti AI enables a unified control plane, consolidating data protection and security visibility into a single dashboard for governing how AI workloads access and use enterprise data.
The conversation also explores how CISOs are being pulled into data protection decisions they once treated as someone else's responsibility. Kerravala notes that ransomware recovery was Veeam's original bridge into the security ecosystem, but AI is now forcing a full convergence of data and security disciplines. He breaks down the growing risk of unsanctioned AI tool use and why enterprises increasingly need a validated, governed data layer before AI can deliver reliable results at scale. From the competitive dynamics — where hyperscalers, data platforms and security vendors are all converging on the same territory — to Veeam's positioning as the single platform spanning both sides of that equation, Kerravala makes the case that VeeamON 2026 marks a genuine inflection point for a company with the heritage, head start and IPO ambitions to pull it off.
