Veeam in 2026 with Rick Vanover

Hello everyone, and welcome to this Tech Field Day segment. I'm Rick Vanover from Veeam, and I'm going to talk to you about Veeam in 2026, reintroduce Veeam to both those of you online as well as the delegates here in the room. So I want to start-- I don't want to say redefine.

That might be a little much. I know that some of you were delegates at our previous Security Field Day event, and I'd really like this opportunity to get in front both of delegates in the room and online, just getting the word out. Just a great opportunity for us.

Let me give you first a business update. So a lot of people know Veeam, but they really don't know the Veeam of today, and a couple of things I want to draw your attention to. Let's start with the money and the revenue, right?

We're a big boy company now. We are clearing over $2 billion of revenue, over half a million customers, over 6,000 employees. Super global.

We're deployed on Antarctica, we're deployed on ships in the sea, we're deployed on submarines. And then all of the analyst firms that track market share, they have us at number one, as well as some other things beyond what people have known us for. For example, a lot of people associate Veeam with virtual backup.

That's how we came to be known, and I'm in my 16th year. I've told that story for years and years. But now, other areas like Microsoft 365, we're the most deployed backup solution in the world for that.

Off-the-shelf Kubernetes backup software, most deployed solution in the world for that. Business is good, and we really like to bring the Veeam of today to everyone. And things have changed.

There's a perfect time to converge of sense where if we look about compliance requirements, backup requirements, security requirements, data's precious right now. And I like to say we're in the business of keeping good data safe from bad things. And if you think about today's agentic AI space, it's going to make more sense than ever.

Michael will talk a lot about that, as will Emily, one of my two colleagues here joining me. And the thought here is that this really puts us in a time of an awesome opportunity to shift. I grew up preparing for fire, flood, and blood.

Be the first to say that. It was big worries back in the day of tapes falling off of the truck. That's nothing burgers compared to what we're dealing with here today.

And the thought here, there's an opportunity to really put a common lens across primary and secondary data. And so you're gonna see us pivot our story to be more of a primary data, secondary data as well, set of capabilities. And what we're going to do here today is walk you through this new message.

And this is new. We've not taken this yet to Tech Field Day, but we're gonna take you through a journey through the five segments here today of understanding data, securing data, making it resilient, and unleashing the potential of that data. And then just like the weather, I don't even have to look.

I can see it just right. That's where we are today. We're gonna converge data security, posture, and management.

We're gonna converge the traditional backup and recovery. But if you think about the reality, the only practical way to do that today is with the power of AI. And so what we're gonna do with this time is walk you through that and show you some demos, some proof points, and with a cautious gait of never going too far from what people have known us for, backup and recovery and much more than that.

And the thought is these four pillars, segments, are super important. Make no mistake, the heart of Veeam is in resilience. And so that's what we'll do with here today.

Now, I told the group we're going early. We have good coffee here in the room, but I wanted to also make sure we had some time for some chat. So I'm gonna turn it over just with the intro, how does that land with you?

Any comments in the room? And Jack looks like he's ready for a question. No?

Okay. But anybody got any thoughts on the Veeam of today, just from an introductory standpoint? I know some of you, it's new.

How does this come across to your traditional customers, the ones who know Veeam more as a backup and disaster recovery company? Are they supportive of the messaging that you're gonna be doing some of the more security-related aspects? Do they see that dovetailing together?

Or is it that weird feeling of, yeah, they've changed a lot because now they don't restore from, I was gonna say tape, but that would mean I would have to take ibuprofen because my back hurts. Permission to speak freely, Tom. Permission granted, Mr.

Vanover. Our audience has a very highly calibrated BS meter. Okay?

And I'll be the first to say that. I live in a world of technical proof points and bringing technical truth and that aha, that oh, wow, and then sometimes even the oh, no type of moment. If you almost know too much about your data, or, oh, no, I can't recover it fast enough.

The reality is, Tom, it's a broader data conversation now, and I want to jump onto the buzzword of 10, 15 years ago, digital transformation. And the reality is it's happened. That one they got right in terms of buzzwords, and the thought is the world is digitally transformed, and therefore, it's underpinned by resilience in the sense where, okay, CIOs around the world are getting pressures to launch AI initiatives and blah, blah AI projects.

So much so that I think that alone introduces risk in the sense that organizations are gonna have to trade velocity with innovation. Okay? And who do you call if it all goes wrong?

That. So I think it's a broader conversation, but you've got to back it up with proof points. But I think it lands well.

We've been very successful, especially in this AI journey post-acquisition. Lot of interest, lot of technical conversations that go with it, and we'll scratch the surface of that today, but that's the heart of why we're here, Tom. So good shout.

Rick? Yeah. You used another one of those great buzzwords, resilience.

Yeah. Give us your sort of exposition on what resilience means to Veeam. I'm gonna steal something from Emily and I's segment just because it's relevant right here.

But resilience today is really a combination of an iteration of things. Like when I say I grew up for fire, flood, and blood or outage, weather, hardware failures, this is like gen one problem. Gen two problem was resiliency, like from a ransomware cyber incident, right?

That in the last 10, 15 years became a thing, made backup get a better seat at the table. But now we're in this AI infrastructure world, and people are making agents. People are over-sharing things.

People are making data go through workflows that maybe don't have the same controls and maybe do things like delete. So if you think about an iteration of disasters, this, Jack, is in my opinion, the heart of why we want to do so much more of a discussion because there's a lot of different problems that can happen at this time. All right.

With that, we are coming to the close of the first segment, introducing Veeam in 2026 here at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC event in San Francisco. I'm Rick Vanover, and that concludes this segment.