Veeam has completed its US$1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI, bringing together two technology providers that have built their reputations around data resilience, security, governance and AI trust. The deal creates what the companies describe as the industry’s first unified trusted data platform designed to support safe AI adoption at scale.
The move strengthens Veeam’s position in data resilience, an area where it is already the global market leader by share and serves more than 550,000 customers, including 87 per cent of the Fortune 500. The acquisition also adds around 600 Securiti AI employees to Veeam’s global workforce, expanding its talent base across AI security, privacy engineering, governance and compliance. Securiti AI’s founder and chief executive, Rehan Jalil, has joined Veeam as president of security and AI.
Veeam said the combined platform is intended to address the growing pressure businesses face as AI systems interact with data at high speed across a mix of structured, unstructured, primary and secondary sources. Many enterprises continue to struggle with fragmented tools and outdated controls that cannot keep pace with modern AI workflows and agent behaviour.
Creating a unified platform for safe AI
Anand Eswaran, chief executive of Veeam, said the increasing pace of AI adoption has placed greater emphasis on trusted data. “AI investment is exploding, yet nearly 90 per cent of enterprise initiatives fail because the data powering AI cannot be trusted,” he said. He noted that safe AI at scale requires governed, protected and recoverable data, and argued that the combined platform can “see everything, secure everything, and recover anything across the entire data estate”.
The integration of Securiti AI’s capabilities brings data security posture management, privacy, governance and AI trust features into Veeam’s resilience portfolio. Customers will be able to access real-time visibility across all data types, continuous compliance enforcement through identity-aware controls, and zero-trust security across production environments and backups. The platform also aims to guarantee clean recovery of data, pipelines, models and AI agents after a disruption.
Jalil said the partnership will help organisations manage their full data estate with confidence. “This is about enabling safe AI at scale, giving organisations the confidence to innovate fearlessly while protecting their most valuable asset,” he said.
Addressing risk in an AI-driven landscape
The companies highlighted the growing significance of unstructured data, which accounts for 90 per cent of enterprise data and is expected to triple by 2029. AI has turned this data from dormant storage into a strategic resource, but has also made it a fast-moving risk surface for cyber threats, quality issues and compliance breaches. Many AI project failures stem from inconsistent or ungoverned data, reinforcing the need for stronger safeguards.
The unified platform promises to give customers a clearer understanding of their data through a real-time command graph that includes classification, lineage and continuous risk scoring. Security functions will combine DSPM, privacy and governance features from Securiti AI with Veeam’s threat detection and identity-aware protection. Recovery capabilities will include faster, cleanroom-validated restoration and granular rollback for datasets, embeddings and model weights.
The companies also said the platform will allow organisations to build governed data pipelines and enterprise search features in minutes, with automated enforcement of entitlements, privacy rules and internal policies.
Industry reactions to the deal
Analysts and industry partners noted the potential impact on the broader enterprise market. Jennifer Glenn, research director at IDC’s Security and Trust Group, described the acquisition as a meaningful step in the evolution of AI governance. She said bringing together data resilience and data security posture management can help organisations develop AI initiatives based on trusted and recoverable data.
Patrick Osborne, senior vice-president of technology acceleration for hybrid cloud at HPE, said Securiti AI’s early involvement in HPE’s Unleash AI programme demonstrated its value to customers building private cloud AI environments. He added that Veeam’s acquisition strengthens the programme’s ecosystem by extending robust data security and governance to shared customers.
The combined platform will cover production systems, cloud environments, on-premises deployments, backups and AI pipelines, with a focus on real-time enforcement to match the speed of modern AI applications.
