by Ryan Stevens
As AI moves deeper into enterprise operations, the industry is entering a new phase: AI resilience. Autonomous systems and fragmented data are reshaping the modern infrastructure stack, forcing organizations to rethink how they secure and recover increasingly dynamic environments.
Security can simply not be an afterthought when AI agents are proliferating across every layer of the organization. During the VeeamON event keynote, Veeam Software Group GmbH Chief Executive Officer Anand Eswaran discussed “three triggers” around why AI trust infrastructure has become so critical, according to theCUBE’s Dave Vellante. For Veeam — long established as the backbone of enterprise backup and disaster recovery — delivering that trust layer isn’t a pivot. It’s a natural evolution of the company’s core mission into the era of AI.
“[Eswaran] said 81% of enterprises are running agents. That’s interesting — half of them probably don’t even know they’re doing that,” Vellante noted during a keynote analysis session. “The second [trigger] was infrastructure spend is enormous, $3 trillion by 2028; 82 agents for every human. That’s the trend that we’re going to see. [Trigger] number three is that that infrastructure that’s trusted hasn’t been delivered yet. The trust perimeter is gone — AI changes all that. It melts that trust perimeter and that is the new bottleneck.”
