Veeam acquires Securiti AI to secure trusted data
Veeam Software has completed its $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI, combining data resilience with security, governance, and AI trust capabilities under one roof. The deal positions Veeam to address one of the biggest blockers to enterprise AI adoption: untrusted and poorly governed data.
For eeNews Europe readers working on AI, cloud, and data-intensive systems, the move highlights how infrastructure vendors are reshaping their platforms to cope with machine-speed data access, tighter regulation, and rising cyber risk — all while trying to make AI projects actually work in production.
Building a unified data platform
Veeam serves more than 550,000 customers worldwide and 82% of the Fortune 500, and it focuses primarily on backup and recovery. Securiti AI brings expertise in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), privacy, governance, and AI trust. Together, the companies say they are creating the industry’s first “trusted data platform” that can see, secure, govern, and recover data at AI scale.
“AI investment is exploding, yet nearly 90% of enterprise initiatives fail because the data powering AI cannot be trusted,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “Safe AI at scale requires more than great models – it demands trusted, governed, recoverable data. Veeam already leads the world in Data Resilience – unmatched in share, global footprint and innovation. By combining that foundation with Securiti AI’s leadership across DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust, we are delivering the first platform that can see everything, secure everything, and recover anything across the entire data estate.”
The combined platform covers both structured and unstructured data across production systems, backups, cloud, and on-premises environments. Veeam argues that fragmented tools are too slow for AI-driven workloads, especially as unstructured data becomes more valuable — and more exposed — through AI use.
What customers can expect
According to Veeam, customers will gain unified visibility across all data, continuous governance with identity-aware enforcement, zero-trust security, and faster, cleaner recovery of data, AI pipelines, and even model artifacts. The company is also emphasizing “guaranteed clean recovery,” a response to ransomware and data poisoning risks that can undermine AI systems.
Veeam will onboard around 600 Securiti AI employees as part of the acquisition. Securiti AI founder and CEO Rehan Jalil joins Veeam as President of Security and AI.
“We are thrilled to join forces with Veeam. Together, we will empower customers with a unified command center to understand, secure, recover, and unlock the full potential of their entire data estate. This is about enabling safe AI at scale – giving organizations the confidence to innovate fearlessly while protecting their most valuable asset,” Jalil said.
Industry watchers see the deal as part of a broader convergence between data protection and AI governance. Jennifer Glenn, Research Director for the IDC Security and Trust Group, said, “The completion of Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti AI marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise data resilience and AI governance. Uniting data security posture management with data protection can help organizations implement AI initiatives with trusted, compliant, and recoverable data.”
With AI projects under pressure to deliver real business value, Veeam is betting that trusted data — not just better models — will be the deciding factor.
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