For decades, data protection has been the enterprise equivalent of life insurance — something organizations know they need but rarely think about until disaster strikes. HYCU’s GM of AI and Cyber, Andy Fernandez, joined the VMblog Expert Interview Series to unveil HYCU aiR (AI Resilience), a groundbreaking new capability that could fundamentally change that dynamic.

In this conversation, Andy breaks down why backup data has long been an untapped goldmine of organizational intelligence — storing immutable histories of everything from GitHub repositories and Salesforce records to Jira tickets and Microsoft 365 activity — and why most companies have been leaving that value completely dormant.

Key topics covered in this interview:

• What HYCU Air is and why it shifts backup from “life insurance” to “healthcare” for your data
• How mid-market organizations can now surface sensitive data, insider risk, anomalies, and data drift across 100+ SaaS workloads — without enterprise-level budgets
• Why AI agents operating at machine speed are creating an urgent new data loss threat that most organizations aren’t prepared for
• How HYCU differentiates from competitors pursuing costly M&A strategies by delivering protection, insight, and recovery in a single control plane
• Real customer feedback from the HYCU Air early adopter program — including how natural language querying is unlocking entirely new use cases no one anticipated
• What’s coming next for HYCU Air, including agent governance and a marketplace of community-driven backup insights

Whether you’re a backup administrator, security professional, or IT decision-maker navigating an increasingly complex SaaS environment, this interview is essential viewing for understanding where data resilience is headed.

🔗 Learn more and join the HYCU aiR waitlist at hycu.com