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Simon Taylor

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, HYCU, Inc.

Search every verified Simon Taylor interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Simon Taylor, founder and CEO of HYCU, spoke at the 69th IT Press Tour in Ljubljana on September 1-2, 2026, presenting a deck titled "Stepping into a new era in data protection." During the session, HYCU highlighted a statistic that an AI coding agent took nine seconds to delete a company's production database and all its backups, which the company presented as a defining example of what it calls the "agentic era." Taylor stated that the industry has shifted from battles against cyber security and ransomware to what he described as "agentic recovery," where companies are contending with thousands of AI agents deployed by employees across their services. Taylor also said the data protection field is moving "from one of cyber resilience to one of AI resilience," and that HYCU remains a data protection company while expanding its scope with the introduction of "HYCU Air." He mentioned adding capabilities such as DSPM, data classification, natural language contextual cyber intelligence, and UEBA, which he said previously required separate tools. The company also discussed regulatory drivers, including the EU's Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA), which requires backups for supply chain operations, and noted it has over 450 channel reselling partners.

Recent appearances

  • HYCU says the next thing to wipe your data will be fully authorised, & backup is the only undo left!

    September 16, 2026 · 📺 iTWire TV

    The 69th edition of The IT Press Tour ran through Ljubljana on 1 and 2 September, and HYCU used its slot to make an argument that should worry anyone who has quietly let a copilot loose inside their tenancy - the full article is here: https://itwire.com/business-it-news/d... The deck was titled "Stepping into a new era in data protection". The number on slide 8 was nine seconds. That's how long an AI coding agent took to delete a company's production database and every backup of it. HYCU put it on screen as the defining statistic of what it calls the agentic era, and then spent 90 minutes ex…

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  • How HYCU And Dell Turn Backups Into Cyber Intelligence

    May 20, 2026 · 📺 evan kirstel

    Your backup system is sitting on a gold mine and most companies are treating it like a fire extinguisher behind glass. From the floor of Dell Technologies World, we talk with Simon Taylor CEO of HYCU about their next chapter: HYCU Air, an AI resiliency platform designed to turn SaaS backup data into something you can actually interrogate, learn from, and use to stay ahead of cyber risk. We dig into the big idea that the most valuable asset is not the LLM itself, but the unique datasets inside your systems of record. HYCU Air pairs a knowledge graph and context engine with an LLM so you can a…

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  • How HYCU And Dell Turn Backups Into Cyber Intelligence

    May 20, 2026 · 📺 evan kirstel

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2228835/fa...) Your backup system is sitting on a gold mine and most companies are treating it like a fire extinguisher behind glass. From the floor of Dell Technologies World, we talk with Simon Taylor CEO of HYCU about their next chapter: HYCU Air, an AI resiliency platform designed to turn SaaS backup data into something you can actually interrogate, learn from, and use to stay ahead of cyber risk.  We dig into the big idea that the most valuable asset is not the LLM itself, but the unique dataset…

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  • HYCU Wakes Up Backup With aiR And Turns Data Into Cyber Intelligence

    May 14, 2026 · 📺 Neil C. Hughes

    What happens when backup data stops being a passive insurance policy and becomes an active intelligence engine for cybersecurity, compliance, and AI resilience? In this episode of Across the Tech Pond, we sit down with HYCU founder and CEO Simon Taylor to unpack one of the most ambitious product announcements we have heard in the data protection space for some time. HYCU has built its reputation on SaaS data protection through its rCloud platform, protecting more than 103 SaaS, cloud, and on-prem data sources for thousands of customers worldwide. But now the company is pushing far beyond back…

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  • HYCU aiR: How AI Is Transforming Backup Data Into a Cyber Intelligence Powerhouse

    May 14, 2026 · 📺 VMblog

    HYCU Turns Backup Data Into a Living Cyber Intelligence Engine — Introducing HYCU aiR For years, backup data has been treated like an insurance policy — something you hope you never need, stored away and forgotten until disaster strikes. HYCU founder and CEO Simon Taylor thinks that's a massive missed opportunity, and with the announcement of HYCU aiR, he may have just changed the data protection industry forever. From Insurance to Healthcare In a conversation with the hosts of Across the Tech Pond, Taylor described HYCU aiR as a fundamental shift in how organizations should think about their…

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  • Simon Taylor, Founder & CEO launches HYCU aiR, the world's #1 AI resiliency backup platform

    May 14, 2026 · 📺 MGMT Boston - The Lantern

    Welcome Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO at HYCU, Inc. on this episode of The Lantern HYCU, Inc. stands for Hybrid Cloud ...

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  • HYCU CEO Simon Taylor Podcast Interview

    February 12, 2026 · 📺 Audio podcasts

    In this Tech Barometer podcast, HYCU (https://www.hycu.com/) CEO Simon Taylor takes listeners into the mind of a creative, disruptive entrepreneur who’s turning data protection into an AI-powered arsenal against cybercrime and ransomware attacks. Get tech leader insights (https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastby...) to move faster and smarter Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast (http://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbyn...) . Podcast transcript: Simon Taylor: I was in a bar in Las Vegas and I happened to bump into an engineer that I'd known from Slovenia and I said, what are you doi…

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  • Across The Tech Pond | HYCU CEO on SaaS Data Protection, Dell Partnership & AI-Driven Backup

    December 08, 2025 · 📺 VMblog

    In this episode of Across The Tech Pond, hosts David Marshall (VMblog.com), Antony Savvas (IT Europa), and Neil Hughes (Tech Talks Daily) sit down with Simon Taylor, CEO and Founder of HYCU, to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of SaaS data protection, cloud backup solutions, and the critical importance of data resilience in 2025. What You'll Learn: HYCU (Hybrid Cloud Uptime) has established itself as a leader in cloud data management and protection, serving 4,600 customers across 78 countries with an impressive 91 NPS score. In this in-depth conversation, Simon reveals how HYCU is tackl…

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  • Simon Taylor, Founder & CEO at HYCU - Fall 2025

    December 02, 2025 · 📺 MGMT Boston - The Lantern

    Welcome Simon Taylor, Founder & CEO at HYCU on this episode of 🔥The Lantern 🔥 HYCU, Inc. stands for hybrid cloud uptime and they are the world’s #1 leader in SaaS data protection. This team backs up and recovers data for 4,600+ customers in 78 countries across On-Prem, Public Cloud, and SaaS from Salesforce to Office365 to Google, Azure, AWS, and much more. 🔍 What has been going on at HYCU in 2025? 🔎 HYCU attained 100% year over year growth for the past quarter and they’ve been building some large strategic partnerships with partners like Dell and iManage. Working with the Dell team - Ray…

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  • iManage Cloud Backup with HYCU | CEO Fireside Chat

    November 19, 2025 · 📺 HYCU, Inc.

    🔒 iManage Cloud backup and recovery | HYCU iManage Cloud backup and recovery is the focus of this joint fireside chat between iManage CEO Neil Araujo and HYCU Founder Simon Taylor. Neil explains why iManage customers demanded a dedicated backup solution, what made HYCU's ISO 27001, SOC 2, and FIPS 140-3 certifications stand out after a year-long integration build, and why granular single-document recovery became a non-negotiable customer requirement. Your backup data stays in your own storage, completely outside the iManage environment. 🚀 Start your free trial → https://www.hycu.com/trial 📅…

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  • Tempo Interview - The payments blockchain by Paradigm and Stripe Ft. Simon Taylor

    September 08, 2025 · 📺 Tokenized

    Tempo Interview - The payments blockchain by Paradigm and Stripe Ft. Simon Taylor Tokenized is sponsored by Visa A world ...

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  • Solving Modern Backup Challenges HYCU and Dell Expand Beyond VMware

    May 27, 2025 · 📺 HYCU, Inc.

    Data protection just got a major upgrade. At Dell Technologies World, HYCU CEO Simon Taylor sat down with Evan Kirstel and unveiled a game-changing solution: the “Tower of Power.” This revolutionary integration brings 86 on-prem, cloud, and SaaS workloads under HYCU's unified platform—fully supported by Dell Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE). Gone are the days of VMware-only support. Now, Dell customers can extend enterprise-grade deduplication to Nutanix, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, and more. Customers report staggering deduplication ratios—up to 60:1—resulting in massive stora…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think that the world of data protection in which we live is moving from one of cyber resilience to one of AI resilience and I think that's the big shift for us. We are still a data protection company but with the advent of Haiku Air we start to expand what data protection means. We add DSPM. We add data classification. We add natural language contextual cyber intelligence. We add UEBA. We add all of those agents th”

“The human race has moved from a battle against cyber security, a battle against ransomware attacks, a battle against what I used to call the SAS apocalypse before that became a bit of a misnomer in the current market. But today we are in the world of agentic recovery. Haiku and every company on planet earth are battling the agents. They are working tirelessly to try to identify all the thousands of agents that are be”

“We've had 100 companies in the Global 2000 already added to our waitlist. We've got 10 Fortune 500 companies who have already tried it out and using it. By the end of this year, we believe this will be about 25% of Hycu's revenue overall. I mean, the demand is that drastic. We're seeing AI levels of growth attached purely to the Hycu Air platform.”

“We've had 100 companies in the Global 2000 already added to our waitlist. We've got 10 Fortune 500 companies who have already tried it out and using it. By the end of this year, we believe this will be about 25% of HYCU's revenue overall. I mean, the demand is that drastic. We're seeing AI levels of growth attached purely to the HYCU Air platform.”

“We realized the single most powerful and valuable asset today is not the LLM. The LLMs are commoditized. They're all essentially doing the same thing with incremental tweaks. It's actually the data sets themselves that represent a gold mine when it comes to actual levels of value.”

“We've had a hundred companies in the global 2000 already added to our wait list. We've got 10 Fortune 500 companies who have already tried it out, are using it. By the end of this year, we believe this will be about 25% of HYCU's revenue overall. I mean the demand is that drastic we're seeing AI levels of growth attached purely to the HYCU Air product.”

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