For a company that spun off only six months ago, Arctera.io is going full steam ahead on data and artificial intelligence management.

Arctera offers three backup and storage options that originated from Veritas Technologies LLC, covering data management, cyber resiliency and data compliance. All three areas are under a microscope in the era of AI adoption.

“We’re right in the middle of a tornado of all the activities that are going on,” said Matt Waxman (pictured), chief product officer at Arctera.io. “You have things like people embracing agentic AI, and at the same time, companies being very concerned about what information is shared into public [large language models] or into even other models that are leveraged inside of products and technology. The other side of the coin is vendors like ourselves get to leverage AI as another capability to really improve productivity.”

Waxman spoke with theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand at the Data Protection & AI Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed ensuring data compliance and protection even as AI gains momentum.

How Arctera addresses compliance and security in one solution

Arctera focuses on data management that meets regulatory requirements and remains secure against ongoing threats from cyberattackers. AI presents a particular challenge to data resilience and recovery because it’s constantly changing, according to Waxman.

“We have built IT around the notion that software is deterministic,” he explained. “The notion that [this] is static, that the software that you’re acquiring is going to be the same software at least for quite a long period of time. That’s not the case with AI. So what you bring in terms of a model is self-learning, and it’s going to adjust over time.”

For this reason, it’s crucial to have multiple ways to back up your data and multiple ways to keep track of it. While Waxman advises against “AI whitewashing,” or applying AI to problems indiscriminately, Arctera has successfully implemented use cases for AI related to data compliance and monitoring.

“If you’re trying to find the breadcrumbs that take you through a potential compliance issue in there, the state of the art used to be that you would spend a lot of time reading through those things,” he said. “AI now becomes a great tool to be able to accelerate that. We’ve embedded AI into our products to do things like that … there’s sort of the super search of, ‘Help me find the needle in the haystack.’”

Arctera attempts to kill two birds with one stone by employing its data compliance software to monitor customers’ data environments for potential security breaches. The next step is governing the growing host of AI agents, according to Waxman.

“When you get to the point that your agent is the application, you start to think about how do you provide resilience and protection and compliance for the agent itself, just like you would for any traditional database, as we think about it today. That’ll take some time to come to fruition, but as customers are starting to embark on this journey, these are the types of conversations that we’re having.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Data Protection & AI Summit:

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