FEATURE organisations gain greater visibility into AI agent activity and respond when behaviour falls outside expected parameters. The focus is on oversight, accountability and reducing unintended risk as AI becomes more deeply embedded in business processes.
This is part of a broader effort to ensure that AI can scale within clearly defined guardrails, particularly in complex hybrid and multi cloud environments.
Veeam is known for its strong partner ecosystem. How does this network drive outcomes for customers in the region?
Our partner and alliance ecosystem is fundamental to how we deliver value. By working closely with cloud providers such as Microsoft and AWS, as well as a wide range of regional and global partners, we help customers deploy proven architectures and achieve consistent recovery outcomes across different platforms.
In regions where skills and resources can be stretched, this ecosystem approach is especially important. Partners extend our reach, bring local expertise, and help customers implement resilient solutions more quickly and effectively.
For customers, the result is faster time to value, greater confidence in their resilience strategy, and solutions that are aligned with their broader cloud and security investments.
What trends are you seeing in Veeam Data Cloud( VDC) adoption?
There is clear momentum towards SaaS delivered backup and recovery. Organisations want solutions that are faster to deploy, easier to manage and natively aligned with cloud first strategies.
The conversation has shifted from backup alone to true cyber-resilience.
Veeam Data Cloud( VDC) addresses this by offering a policy driven, cloud native approach that reduces operational overhead while maintaining strong security and compliance controls. We’ re seeing customers use this model to protect platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce, as well as to support wider cloud modernisation initiatives.
For many organisations, SaaS based protection is becoming a practical and scalable way to strengthen resilience without the complexity associated with legacy systems.
Finally, what differentiates Veeam in today’ s evolving IT landscape?
Veeam’ s differentiation comes back to one core principle: data resilience by design. Everything we do is centred on helping organisations ensure their data is available, trusted and recoverable – regardless of where it lives.
Our open, hardware agnostic approach gives customers flexibility and control, while our continued focus on recovery readiness, ransomware protection and data portability helps them navigate disruption with confidence.
As technology continues to evolve, resilience remains the foundation. Our role is to make sure organisations can innovate and grow without losing control of their data or their future. •
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INTELLIGENT CIO MIDDLE EAST www. intelligentcio. com