It’s not rocket science figuring out what buzzwords to toss around at a tech conference these days. Multicloud and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) are on the list, and they both popped up at the Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas this week. But is Veritas Technologies LLC putting any weight behind them?

Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left) and Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, weighed the hot air against the cold facts during the conference. Veritas fared best on GDPR, they agreed. (* Disclosure below.)

“They had answers,” Vellante said. This was welcome relief from the fear mongering at other industry shows. “Scare you, scare you, scare you — and then call us, and we’ll give you some services,” is how Vellante summarized the typical approach to GDPR.

“What I liked about what I’m hearing from Veritas is they’ve got at least a quasi prescription as to what to do,” Vellante added.

The company’s cloud plans were a bit hazier. Keynote speakers pushed all the right buttons with trendy terms like cloud-native, containers and microservices. But they left attendees hot and bothered with few concrete details, Vellante pointed out.

“I believe that they’re developing there, but I don’t understand how they migrate that install base,” he said, referring to Veritas’ legacy backup customers. “Is there some kind of abstraction layer? Is there some kind of new UI [user interface]?”

Can Veritas’ R&D bucks buy multicloud?

The story is similar with Veritas data management’s supposed ability to span multiple clouds, Miniman noted. Lots of cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, offer data management.

However, “We haven’t had a solution that goes across all of those environments, so there’s a hole in the ecosystem,” Miniman said.

One can’t blame Veritas for wanting to fill it, but do they have the goods? Veritas’ private status may be the ace up its sleeve that allows it to innovate rapidly and solve some of these issues.

In an interview with theCUBE today, Veritas’ Chief Executive Officer, Bill Coleman, said, “We’re spending $99 million more in R&D [research and development] and go-to-market this year than was in the original plan. I wouldn’t be able to do that in the public markets.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Veritas Vision 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Veritas Vision 2017. Neither Veritas Technologies LLC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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