Cloud Native Security and Enterprise Scale Innovations Add Cyber Resiliency through Hardened Container Support, Enhanced Ransomware Protection and Secure Supply Chain Operations

CHICAGO, IL – Nov. 7, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes data protection, today announced the release of its New Kasten K10 V6.5 platform for Kubernetes during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. The new release introduces trusted container environments, enhanced ransomware protection and data protection support for large-scale Kubernetes environments.

As part of the new cloud native security innovations in Kasten K10 V6.5, organizations now have access to ransomware protection advances that allow for integrations with SIEM (Datadog) to proactively detect security attacks along with an extended audit log backend that enables the ability to capture Kasten-related activity in a Kubernetes-native environment. Additionally, support for Iron Bank, Platform One’s source, now provides hardened federal container registry, to ensure application and data security against a variety of threat factors and guarantees that organizations can comply with regulatory and legal fiats. What’s more, the latest release establishes the integrity and origin of software releases, by providing a software bill of materials for trusted software supply chain, ensuring enterprises can run their software applications safe with the knowledge they are genuine and secure.

With 82% of enterprises using containers and 66% embracing Kubernetes as the de facto container orchestration platform, the size and importance of Kubernetes deployments is growing. Organizations are scaling up to manage the increased use of microservices architectures and the additional deployments of clusters across multi or hybrid cloud environments. This increases the pressure to deploy more versatile and efficient backup tools that can scale to customer needs. At the same time, with data from the Veeam Ransomware Trends Report 2023 showing that 85% of organizations suffered ransomware attacks at least once in 2023, enterprises can’t compromise on data protection. New Kasten K10 V6.5 addresses these pain points, enabling customers to invest confidently in Kubernetes expansion, knowing their mission-critical data is protected in case of attack.

“Customers expanding their container footprints are putting a premium on protecting their applications and data against cyber criminals and scaling their applications and underlying infrastructures efficiently, all while incorporating cloud native tools and technologies,” said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product and Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam. “Kasten K10 V6.5 is purpose built to solve these issues. It ensures that customers can effectively grow their deployments without fear of reaching a deployment ‘ceiling’ and ensuring that data is securely backed up so it can be restored reliably in a crisis.”

New cloud native security innovations in Kasten K10 V6.5 include the following:

• Ransomware protection advances: Integrations with SIEM (Datadog) proactively detects security attacks. Also, an extended audit log backend enables the ability to capture Kasten-related activity in a Kubernetes-native environment.
• Hardened federal container registry: Support for Iron Bank, Platform One’s source for hardened and approved containers, ensures application and data security against a variety of threat factors and that the organization can comply with regulatory and legal fiats.
• Software bill of materials for trusted software supply chain: Establishes the integrity and origin of software releases, ensuring enterprises can run their software applications safe in the knowledge they are genuine and secure.

Kasten K10 V6.5 also includes the following new enterprise-scale capabilities:

• Large-scale multi-cluster operations: Multi-cluster dashboard gives administrators a centralized view and control over their Kubernetes data protection environment. It provides visibility into license usage and status across all clusters, allowing administrators to easily create, edit, delete, or clone backup policies and profiles across multiple clusters from a single interface.
• Multi-app restore: Simplifies and speeds up bulk restore operations by enabling users to select multiple applications from the dashboard and restore them to the same or a different cluster with just a few clicks.
• VMs on Kubernetes with OpenShift virtualization: Enterprises can leverage Kubernetes to manage their VM workloads alongside their container workloads, using tools such as RedHat OpenShift Virtualization.
• Kubernetes backup and restore efficiency: Support for Change Block Tracking (CBT) for Amazon EBS volumes allows for faster and more efficient incremental backups. Added support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes extends freedom of choice across various Kubernetes distributions, deployment models, and storage implementations.

“Kasten by Veeam’s new security advancements puts it at features-parity, and in some cases, even above what traditional data protection products can currently do,” said Johnny Yu, research manager at IDC. “One of the most impactful additions to Kasten K10 V6.5 is its enhancements to OpenShift Virtualization support. Being able to manage VM and Kubernetes workloads together takes the pressure off containerizing legacy applications, allowing organizations to take container adoption at their own pace.”

Kasten by Veeam continues to be the acknowledged leader in the Kubernetes data protection market as recognized by many industry accolades. The 2023 edition of GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection features Kasten by Veeam as both a Leader and Outperformer, the only vendor achieving such a distinction for three years in a row, since the inception of the report. That explains the considerable and accelerating momentum Kasten is enjoying in the marketplace, yielding near triple-digit, year-over-year-growth in fiscal year 2022.

General availability of the new Kasten K10 V6.5 will be released later this year.

Kasten by Veeam is a Platinum member of the CNCF and will be giving demonstrations of the New Kasten by Veeam K10 V6.5 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Chicago, IL, Nov. 6 – 9 at Booth M3.

Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, taking place June 3 – 5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon

For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try Kasten K10 for FREE.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data protection challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data protection platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. With Kasten by Veeam, teams achieve radical resilience against ransomware attacks. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on X.

About Veeam
Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at?www.veeam.com?or follow Veeam on LinkedIn?@veeam-software?and X?@veeam.

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New project provides the Kubernetes community at large with application-consistent backup and recovery of database and stateful applications

CHICAGO, IL – Nov. 7, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam^®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, announced today that Kanister, an open-source framework that provides application-level data backup and recovery, has been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a sandbox project, indicating that the project adds value to the CNCF mission and encourages public visibility within the community. Kanister, created as an open-source project in 2017, removes the tedious data management details around Kubernetes execution with sharable blueprints that make it easy to add, change or reuse workloads and providers so application-level data protection is consistent across hybrid clouds. The platform fosters freedom of choice and control of stateful workloads to provide users with a customizable experience that ensures data is well-protected.

In 2022, the Data on Kubernetes Community survey found 70%of respondents were running stateful applications in production while the DataDog Container Report found databases are the majority of stateful workloads. However, stateful workloads require orchestration before and after a CSI VolumeSnapshot to ensure an application-consistent state for backup and recovery – this becomes especially important amidst the rapidly growing ransomware attack threat, increasing by 12% in 2023, over the previous year.

Kanister helps solve this by providing “day two” data protection operations by coordinating Kubernetes storage, application services, and off-cluster backups, ensuring data is protected in the event of a breach. Kanister puts Kasten’s experts with domain knowledge of specific applications in charge of tedious data management tasks with minimal application changes needed by the end user, adding an additional layer of security for an organization’s critical data.

“With Kanister, users have the ability to use existing blueprints or author their own with the confidence of knowing it is backed by Kubernetes experts with extensive domain knowledge,” said Danny Allan, Chief Technology Officer, Veeam. “This validation by the CNCF will only benefit our users, and we’re excited to see the community continue to flourish as a result.”

Since its inception, the Kanister community has contributed blueprints for a variety of databases, including AWS RDS, Postgres, MariaDB, and ElasticSearch, to provide data consistency for the growing wave of stateful workloads on Kubernetes.

“It’s fantastic to see how much progress the community makes every year in simplifying and scaling stateful operations in Kubernetes, and we are thrilled to donate Kanister to the CNCF to continue this mission,” said Thomas Manville, Vice President, Kasten Engineering. “Kanister was one of the early projects in the space and has grown up alongside other community projects such as CSI and database operators. The CNCF is the natural home for Kanister and we are excited to continue supporting the Kanister community in the years to come.”

Kasten by Veeam blends commercial and open-source platforms, including Kanister, into an enterprise data protection and management solution. Kasten by Veeam is a Platinum member of the CNCF and will be giving demonstrations of Kanister at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America from Nov. 6 – 9 at Booth M3.

To learn more about Kanister’s role in enterprise data protection, visit the Kanister project web site at https://Kanister.io.

Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, taking place June 3 – 5, 2024 at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon.

Supporting Quotes
“EDB Postgres for Kubernetes operator enables organizations to run Postgres on multiple and hybrid clouds. Our Kanister.io blueprint support extends our operator to provide application consistent data backup and recovery. EDB and Kanister.io unify data protection across the database and Kubernetes domain, keeping Postgres running and recoverable.” – Josef De Vries, Chief Product Engineering Officer at EDB

“Kanister has allowed us to establish an application-level backup system with a project that is supported by the knowledge and experience within the entire community. Its flexibility, powered by application specific blueprints, allows us to not only use Kubernetes-native functionality like volume snapshots but to also leverage GCP-specific functionality including “Storage transfers” and “Cloud SQL Backups” to dramatically speed up the process. We rest easier knowing our application-level data is protected and well-managed by a team of Kubernetes experts, and being accepted by the CNCF is just another proof point of Kanister’s value to our organization.” – Jens Schneider & Sven Schliesing, Cloud engineers at Norddeutscher Rundfunk

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data protection challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data protection platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. With Kasten by Veeam, teams achieve radical resilience against ransomware attacks. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on X.

About Veeam Software
Veeam^®, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

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Free Kubernetes training and the company’s partnership with WeAreDevelopers support critical career development within the developer community

CHICAGO, IL – Nov. 6, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam, the market leader for Kubernetes data protection, celebrates the first anniversary of KubeCampus, an online career development resources for the Kubernetes developer community, with a new partnership with WeAreDevelopers, a leading community for developers invested in accelerating tech talent. Together with WeAreDevelopers, Kasten by Veeam supports the ability for developers to consume content, learn and grow personally and professionally – year round – through virtual and live events, podcasts, career opportunities and more. This partnership will deliver new, expanded content, live events, additional labs, co-hosted podcasts and Learning Days, as well as feature shared resources and career opportunities both communities can leverage year-round.

KubeCampus, a free Kubernetes learning experience offering training opportunities for the most sought-after Kubernetes skills based on practical, real-world implementations, use cases, and experiences to address critical industry skills gaps. Launched in Oct. 2022, KubeCampus offers online and in-person Kubernetes learning to more than 25,000 registrants, and counting, with more than 15,000 courses completed to date and new courses consistently added to enhance the curriculum – including three new labs in Q3 2023.

“We are immensely proud of KubeCampus’ remarkable success in empowering the next class of open-source developers,” said Tom Leyden, vice president of Marketing at Kasten. “Like WeAreDevelopers, we recognize the importance of providing today’s tech talent with new opportunities to learn, as our fast-paced technology space is constantly evolving. Both new and established professionals need a resource to remain efficient and effective in their roles and with multiple levels of course offerings, KubeCampus has become an incredible Kubernetes training asset in a short period of time, and we are certain it will only continue to grow in popularity and utilization.”

Kubernetes continues to grow in adoption as 82% of organizations are using containers and 66% are embracing Kubernetes as the de facto container orchestration platform,¹ training has been cited as a major challenge across the open-source community. KubeCampus is the go-to resource that provides rich content and learning opportunities from industry experts. Registrants can attain certification in multiple technologies, an important step towards industry certifications, and build the skills and understanding necessary to streamline Kubernetes deployments and operations – all at their own pace in an easy-to-follow format.

Thousands of Kubernetes users leverage KubeCampus course offerings or webinar series each month, garnering a user review score of 4.7 out of 5. The hands-on labs are led by Kubernetes experts, empowering learners to test newly acquired skills in real-world situations – from installing a Kubernetes cluster to building an application.

“KubeCampus has truly accelerated my Kubernetes learning journey. Its self-guided pace, hands-on labs with real commands and rich resource libraries are exactly what I needed to move from novice to intermediate skill level. I clearly see the path to becoming a pro,” said Andre Atkinson, Senior Systems Engineer and KubeCampus learner.

Similarly, WeAreDevelopers provides year-round opportunities, spurred by developers themselves, including coding challenges, bi-weekly online events and the WeAreDevelopers World Congress – the world’s largest annual event for developers – to foster networking and knowledge sharing.

“We are thrilled to partner with Kasten by Veeam to celebrate and empower the tech talent within our developer community,” said Sead Ahmetovi, CEO & Co-founder of WeAreDevelopers. “KubeCampus is a proof point that we are aligned on the same mission to assist in leveling up developer careers and ultimately drive success across the tech and broader industries as a result.”

Kasten by Veeam is a Platinum member of the CNCF and will be giving demonstrations of the New Kasten by Veeam K10 V6.5 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Chicago, IL, Nov. 7 – 9 at Booth M3.

Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, taking place June 3 – 5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon.

For more information on KubeCampus or to register for a course, please visit https://kubecampus.io. For more information on WeAreDevelopers, visit www.wearedevelopers.com.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data protection challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data protection platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. With Kasten by Veeam, teams achieve radical resilience against ransomware attacks. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on X.

About WeAreDevelopers
WeAreDevelopers is Europe’s leading community for developers, dedicated to empowering tech talents and accelerating their careers. Founded in 2017, the company’s career platform provides valuable tech content, perfect-fit job opportunities, and outstanding events throughout the year to support the professional and personal growth of developers. The company achieved global recognition through hosting the WeAreDevelopers World Congress, the world’s largest annual event for developers, bringing together over 15,000 participants and 500 speakers to share their insights, exchange ideas, and shape the future of technology. Here, the global developer community regularly discusses current trends and developments along with industry leaders such as Steve Wozniak, Sir Tim-Berners-Lee, Amanda Silver, Cassie Kozyrkov, Garry Kasparov and many more superstars of the tech industry. WeAreDevelopers is on the mission to level up the careers of developers and to foster a community of tech professionals who are driven to succeed and make a significant impact on the industry.

About Veeam
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

¹ESG, April 2023: Measuring the Current State and Momentum in the Enterprise Market for Kubernetes Protection. https://www.kasten.io/ty-analyst-report-measuring-the-current-state-and-momentum-in-the-enterprise-market-for-kubernetes-protection?submissionGuid=15e52853-8954-4fc2-bf79-6a7c0e802f37

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New integrations with Veeam Data Platform and cloud native tools, combined with new features including intelligent policies, aim to scale Kubernetes data protection and expand ransomware detection for enterprises

Miami, FL – VeeamON 2023 — May 23, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the release of its new Kasten K10 V6.0 Kubernetes data protection platform. The new release includes features that will help customers scale their cloud native data protection more efficiently, better protect their applications and data against ransomware attacks, and increase accessibility by adding new cloud native integrations.

Kubernetes was designed to enable greater productivity – helping enterprises scale automation to manage very large deployments found within containerized environments. Kubernetes has now garnered industry-standard status as cloud native architecture fuels widespread application modernization. Now, IT budgets are tightening, and the pressure to do more with less is growing. At the same time, security issues remain top of mind across all business segments, with 85% of all organizations suffering at least one cyber-attack in the past 12 months.

Kasten K10 V6.0 bridges the need for increased operational efficiency and business resiliency in cloud native environments. The solution introduces newly enhanced capabilities to perform backup and disaster recovery with intelligent policies, extend threat detection capabilities, and uphold freedom of choice in terms of selecting best-of-breed components of the underlying infrastructure.

“Enterprises deploying cloud native applications today face two principal challenges. They need to protect their critical assets against cyberattacks while scaling applications and underlying infrastructure in the most efficient manner,” said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product and Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam. “Kasten K10 V6.0 addresses these issues head on, introducing intelligence and automation at all layers of the backup and recovery process with deep ecosystem integrations including Red Hat OpenShift for enterprise grade data protection. We also remove friction from the process by aligning with the tools and processes customers already use.”

New capabilities of Kasten K10 V6.0 include:

• Enterprise-Grade Ransomware Protection: Kasten K10 V6.0 enables organizations to create proactive ransomware protection strategies by improving suspicious activity detection capabilities, providing immutable backups, and elevating their capability for instant recovery. The new release extends threat detection capabilities by logging all events into Kubernetes Audit natively. The Kubernetes Audit logs can then be analyzed holistically by intelligent threat detection solutions to look for and flag patterns of abnormal, suspicious activity. The ability to interface with AWS Secrets Manager to store/retrieve passcodes allows for more flexibility in implementing a hardened, secure disaster recovery (DR) workflow for K10 itself. Also, Kasten K10’s Kubernetes native policies can be integrated into Infrastructure as Code to provide “guardrails,” allowing for risk mitigation, operational consistency, and automation.
• Scalability and Efficiency Improvements: A new application fingerprinting feature enables newly deployed stateful applications to be automatically mapped to appropriate blueprints to achieve proper data consistency. This helps to reduce risk, minimize complexity, nurture operational consistency, and enforce improved compliance, paving the way for scale. Kasten K10 V6.0 also offers an improved metadata transformation experience (as typically required when restoring or migrating applications across environments), a streamlined VM restore workflow for Red Hat OpenShift virtualization and multi-cluster license management, allowing for an improved and more efficient user experience.
• Cloud Native Expansion: Kasten K10 continues to add the most up-to-date cloud native integrations that facilitate new workloads and storage types, hybrid deployments and increased security capabilities. Kasten K10 V6.0 now supports Kubernetes 1.26, Red Hat OpenShift 4.12 and a new built-in blueprint for Amazon RDS, allowing for broader reach and interoperability. The platform also added additional hybrid cloud support on GCP, cross-platform restore targets for VMware Tanzu environments, and new Cisco Hybrid Cloud CVD with Red Hat OpenShift and Kasten K10. Adding new storage options for NetApp ONTAP S3 and Dell-EMC ECS S3 allows for more freedom of choice and interoperability with storage targets.

“The increasingly intricate and sophisticated nature of Kubernetes clusters makes deploying new services and ensuring adequate data protection for them a daunting task,” said Danny Allan, CTO and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam. “With Kasten K10 V6.0 integrated into the Veeam Data Platform, customers can reduce complexity in their Kubernetes deployments, allowing their cloud native environments to reach their full potential. At the same time, the new release helps them double down on data protection and security resilience at a time when they can’t afford to compromise on either factor.”

Kasten by Veeam continues to be the acknowledged leader in the Kubernetes data backup and recovery market, as recognized by many industry accolades. One recent example is the 2023 edition of GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection, in which Kasten by Veeam is featured as both a Leader and Outperformer, the only vendor achieving such a distinction for three years in a row since the inception of the report. This explains the considerable and accelerating momentum Kasten by Veeam is enjoying in the marketplace, yielding near triple digit, year-over-year-growth in fiscal year 2022.

General availability of the new Kasten K10 V6.0 is expected in late Q2 and will be featured during both Red Hat Summit and VeeamON 2023, the community event for data recovery experts, taking place online May 22-24 and in person in Miami, Fla. Designed by and built for the backup and recovery professional, attendees will expand their skills, learn how to protect their businesses from ransomware, and share industry knowledge with exclusive content from Microsoft, AWS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and more. Registration for the in-person event and the virtual option is now open.

For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try K10 for FREE.

Supporting Quotes

“As the number of containers running in production continues to increase, organizations need security and data protection capabilities that are able to scale with their deployments. Through our collaboration with Kasten by Veeam, we are providing customers with additional flexibility and choice in how they protect their Kubernetes workloads.” – Kirsten Newcomer, Director, Cloud and DevSecOps Strategy, Red Hat

“Ransomware attacks are more prevalent than ever before, and it is no longer an option for companies to opt for solutions that do not offer the necessary protection, recovery and threat detection capabilities. Kasten by Veeam’s Kasten K10 v6.0 provides detection capabilities, immutable backups and instant recovery to address this, but perhaps more importantly, this release also introduces automation and efficiency capabilities to open the doors for large-scale container protection deployment – an inevitability for any company using containers seriously.” – Johnny Yu, Research Manager, Storage and Computing at IDC

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data protection platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes business unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Partnership provides comprehensive backup, DR, and application mobility for Kubernetes environments

IRVINE, CA – April 25, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Zadara, a leader in edge cloud services, today announced a new validated solution with Kasten by Veeam, the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. This combined offering of Zadara zCompute, zStorage and the Kasten K10 data management platform delivers an integrated and validated data protection solution with complete backup, disaster recovery (DR) and application mobility for Kubernetes environments.

Zadara’s 100%-OpEx multi-tier zStorage combined with Kasten K10 simplifies operations, improves performance and reduces the risks associated with managing complex storage. The ability to move an application across Kubernetes clusters enables a variety of use cases including DR, Test/Dev and performance testing in isolated environments. Kasten K10 supports seamless application migration and mobility across namespaces, clusters, clouds, cloud accounts and regions including Zadara’s Global Edge Cloud locations.

“Legacy backup systems were not designed to comprehensively safeguard this next generation of cloud native applications deployed in Kubernetes,” said Nelson Nahum, CTO, Zadara. “Zadara is a leader in providing business driven outcomes across multiple storage tiers and shift capacity to where the application needs it. In partnering with Kasten by Veeam, we’re bringing to market a combined offering that protects data from myriad threats, including bad actors and the havoc they unleash, technology failures, even natural disasters.”

The Zadara and Kasten by Veeam data management solution is purpose built for Kubernetes using cloud native principles and APIs, with a multi-cluster management interface, cloud native API, providing support for Kubernetes-native RBAC, Auth, encryption with KMS, and data immutability to defeat ransomware.

“Developers are relied upon to rapidly develop and deploy applications that accelerate digital transformation. They are looking for infrastructure that supports these ever-evolving business initiatives,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP of Product at Kasten by Veeam. “The combination of Zadara zStorage, zCompute and Kasten K10 offers an agile, cost-effective solution eliminating the need for CapEx storage purchases, support contracts, and disruptive data migrations.”

“Kubernetes is fast becoming the platform of choice for cloud-native applications. Its flexibility is enabling companies of all sizes to take advantage of containers and is in turn changing the data protection landscape,” said Richard May, Managing Director of virtualDCS. “Our CloudCover K8s solution is a unique service for protecting Kubernetes workloads, combining the power of Kasten by Veeam and Zadara technologies to create a cloud-adjacent disaster recovery (DR) solution. This enables customers to take a holistic approach to their data protection and allows for simultaneous orchestration of both Kubernetes and legacy environments to recover as part of a single DR plan.”

The combined zStorage, zCompute and Kasten K10 offering provides support across the entire application stack including the popular databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch and others. Find out more at: https://www.zadara.com/kasten/

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About Zadara:
Since 2011, Zadara’s Edge Cloud Platform (ZECP) simplifies operational complexity through automated end-to-end infrastructure provisioning of compute, storage and network resources. Zadara Edge Cloud users are supported by Zadara’s team of battle-tested cloud experts and backed by our 100% SLA guarantee. With solutions available on-premises and through cloud and colocation providers, Zadara’s turnkey hardware/software, combined with its pay-only-for-what-you-use model, helps companies gain agility without sacrificing the features and functionality that enterprise IT teams demand. Zadara operates worldwide, including clouds in hundreds of data centers at public- and private-cloud partners, with an expert team that provides follow-the-sun services. Zadara is headquartered in Irvine, California, with locations in Cirencester, England; Tokyo, Japan; Tel Aviv and Yokneam, Israel; Bangalore, India; and São Paulo, Brazil.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes business unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Scality and StormForge bring expertise in storage and automated Kubernetes resource management to the platform as adoption of Kubernetes continues to accelerate with education and training in high demand

AMSTERDAM; KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: April 18, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced that its KubeCampus.io Kubernetes learning platform now has over 20,000 registered users and is expanding to include its first partners Scality and StormForge. These new content providers will infuse the platform with valuable, deep expertise in storage and automated Kubernetes resource management, two key supporting technologies that users should learn to execute Kubernetes deployments successfully.

With Kubernetes adoption increasing exponentially, the need for improved skills in container deployment and management is also growing. However, the lack of Kubernetes training continues to be a challenge. Nearly half of the respondents to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s annual survey in 2022 who have yet to deploy containers in production say lack of training is the most significant barrier to operation.

Kasten by Veeam is helping close the skills gap by offering free training opportunities and hands-on labs covering the most sought-after Kubernetes skills based on practical, real-world implementations, use cases, and experience with industry-leading products. Designed to be a neutral gathering place for the open-source learning community rather than a vendor-based resource, KubeCampus.io delivers a community platform for learning cloud native and Kubernetes concepts and skills that are increasingly in demand. Visitors will also find additional opportunities for certification and in-person training.

KubeCampus.io has increased its user base by 50% in 2022 and now reports nearly 12,500 courses completed and thousands of learning resources downloaded.

“Building on the tremendous success of KubeCampus, the logical next step is to add resources that will continue to enrich the learning experience,” said Tom Leyden, vice president of marketing at Kasten by Veeam. “Collaborating with our partners to expand content and instruction will give users more learning opportunities, more industry experts to consult, and more chances to be certified in leading technologies. Partners can benefit as well by taking advantage of opportunities to drive thought leadership and introduce their technology to prospective customers.”

Learning is a focus for Kasten by Veeam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam as it hosts KubeCampus Learning Day – a FREE, in-person live event featuring two different hands-on labs designed to help attendees improve Kubernetes knowledge and skills while connecting with a like-minded community. The first ever Learning Day EU event sold out in one day, underscoring the demand for Kubernetes-related skills development.

Kasten by Veeam will hold a similar, exclusive learning opportunity, “Kubernetes & Kasten K10 Workshop” on May 22 as part of VeeamON 2023, the community event for data recovery experts, which will take place May 22 – 24 in Miami, Florida and online. Designed by and built for the backup and recovery professional, attendees will expand their skills, celebrate with the community, and share industry knowledge with exclusive content from AWS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and more.?Registration for the in-person event is now open.

Kasten by Veeam is a Platinum sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Booth #P7. Join KubeCampus at https://kubecampus.io/register

To become a KubeCampus partner, visit: https://kubecampus.io/kubernetes/partners

For more information, please visit: www.kasten.io or try K10 for FREE.

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“The need for more high-value education around Kubernetes and container environments is evident from working with our IT clients. The lack of this training is holding back the gains expected from transforming IT environments to the more modern container environments and supporting the new application delivery method.?Beyond development, IT operations also need a foundation of knowledge to be effective.?KubeCampus is the best education we’ve seen offered and fills a critical need.” – Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist, Futurum Group

“The invitation to join the KubeCampus community as an inaugural partner is an honor. With 20,000+ subscribers on the platform, we have the opportunity to drive adoption of object storage for cloud-native apps to a whole new world of DevOps professionals. We feel privileged to help educate and close the skills gaps so often present in key Kubernetes component technologies.” – Wally McDermid, vice president of strategic alliances at Scality

“Our automated Kubernetes resource management platform is a natural fit for the KubeCampus audience of learners. As companies move through their cloud journey with Kubernetes, they will want to increase their knowledge base on when and how to optimize their environments. We believe that as a KubeCampus learning platform partner, we will help provide a broader maturity model for current and future potential customers while helping the community address the challenges of Kubernetes complexity, especially as deployments scale.” – Tom Ellery, SVP of Worldwide Field Operations at StormForge.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes business unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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WALTHAM, MA – April 12, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, today announced the expansion of its strategic collaboration with Veeam®, the leader in Modern Data Protection, and Kasten by Veeam, the market leader in Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and mobility. Infinidat’s InfiniBox® and InfiniGuard® solutions have been integrated with the Kasten K10 Kubernetes data backup platform for container-based workloads. Concurrently, InfiniGuard is integrated with the new Veeam Data Platform, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication v12. Working tightly across the Veeam portfolio, Infinidat is well-positioned as an enterprise storage choice to complement Veeam solutions for end-to-end backup at scale.

“Infinidat and Veeam work closely together to benefit enterprise customers and channel partners,” said Erik Kaulberg, Vice President, Strategy and Alliances at Infinidat. “Our integration with Kasten by Veeam for container-based workloads puts Infinidat at the center of the enterprise market’s ever-increasing use of containers, giving joint customers peace of mind as they move to large-scale production containers usage. And our new certification of InfiniGuard as Veeam Integrated, which builds on our previous certifications, expands our existing tight relationship with Veeam. Overall, our complementary products are ideal solutions for Veeam environments.”

Today’s announcement comprises the following:

• Integration of Infinidat Solutions with Kasten K10 Kubernetes Backup: InfiniBox and InfiniGuard have been validated with Kasten K10 Kubernetes backup software as source and target devices to provide comprehensive enterprise-grade Kubernetes data protection at scale. This product portfolio-led approach reinforces Infinidat’s commitment to Kubernetes, which is gaining more traction among enterprises. Kasten K10 provides enterprise teams a simple, scalable and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery and mobility of Kubernetes applications.
• InfiniGuard is Veeam Integrated for Veeam Backup & Replication v12: With this new certification, InfiniGuard is now selectable as a deduplication storage appliance directly from the Veeam console. While customers could use Infinidat solutions in the past, the process to set up InfiniGuard was manual and has now been automated. This puts Infinidat in a very small, select group of Veeam partners with this level of certified capability.
• Expansion of Infinidat’s Veeam Certifications: The new “Veeam Integrated” status of InfiniGuard increases Infinidat’s momentum in data protection, building on two other certifications that Infinidat has secured with Veeam. InfiniGuard was verified last year as Veeam Ready, which affirmed InfiniGuard as a strong and performant repository for Veeam customers. Earlier, InfiniBox was Veeam Integrated, providing Veeam the ability to trigger snapshots on InfiniBox, then backup from those snapshots. This is a critical function for backup because it offloads the impact of backup operations from production systems and minimizes end-user performance impact.

Empowering Enterprises to Use Containers at Scale
Kubernetes is an orchestration tool that helps developers manage containerized applications. Applications are run in isolated user spaces, called containers, representing a form of virtualization. As more companies transition from monoliths to microservices, there has been an increase in the use of container technologies.

According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Cloud Native Survey 2022, 44% of organizations are already using containers for almost all of their applications and business segments, while another 35% reported that containers are used for at least a few production applications. Over the next 12 months, 83% of organizations are expected to be using containers, reflecting the fast pace of the container backup market.

Infinidat has partnered with Kasten by Veeam to ensure that customers can easily leverage Infinidat’s storage at scale in all aspects of their Kubernetes environments. When paired with InfiniBox enterprise-grade primary storage and InfiniGuard secondary storage, users can expect reliable, scalable, and high-performance storage for stateful application workloads. InfiniGuard is a highly efficient, purpose-built secondary storage backup and recovery solution that provides extremely high data reduction, fast backup and high availability ? all without compromising on recovery speed.

Supporting Quotes:
“Organizations globally are facing tremendous challenges keeping their data safe and protected across all environments,” said Tom Leyden, Vice President of Product Marketing at Kasten by Veeam. “To solve these issues, Infinidat has partnered with Veeam and Kasten by Veeam to deliver the best and most innovative modern data protection solutions. Together, we provide enterprises with powerful, trusted solutions that keep their businesses running.”

“At Virtual Data Corp. (VDC) we deliver high-quality, state-of-the-art enterprise class public or private cloud solutions, cloud backup, managed colocation, disaster recovery planning and other IT services for small to medium-sized businesses,” said M. Cole Thompson, President & CEO at VDC BlackSun. “Given that, it is essential that our partners deliver the utmost in enterprise-grade solutions. By working with Infinidat, Veeam, and Kasten by Veeam, we can deliver unparalleled enterprise modern data protection and cyber storage resilience solutions for our customers. Infinidat and Veeam provide exactly what we need to keep our customers’ primary, secondary, and backup data always available, reliable, and secure.”

“Today’s enterprises expect the best in modern data protection and cyber storage resilience,” said Stan Wysocki, President at Mark III Systems. “By combining Infinidat solutions with Veeam and Kasten by Veeam, we can deliver unmatched solutions to meet those data protection and cyber resilience needs in our customers’ virtualized and container environments. Coupled with Infinidat’s cyber storage resilience guarantees, the match of Infinidat and Veeam is top-of-the-line.”

About Infinidat
Infinidat helps enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. Infinidat’s software defined storage architecture delivers microsecond latency, 100% availability, and scalability with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than competing storage technologies. The company offers an award-winning portfolio of enterprise storage solutions for primary and secondary storage deployments. The corporate headquarters are based in Herzliya, Israel, and U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.infinidat.com

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Kasten by Veeam is the only provider to receive an exceptional rating across all metrics

COLUMBUS, Ohio — March 7, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam^®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and mobility, today announced industry analyst GigaOm has exclusively named Kasten by Veeam both a Leader and Outperformer in its GigaOm Radar Report for Kubernetes Data Protection for the third consecutive year.

GigaOm analysts ranked Kasten by Veeam in the top quadrant of Kubernetes data protection providers, recognizing the company’s Kasten K10 cloud-native data management platform with across-the-board “exceptional” ratings for all five evaluation metrics: flexibility, scalability, performance, usability and security capabilities. Kasten K10 is a purpose-built platform for Kubernetes that offers backup, restore, disaster recovery and mobility functionality for container-based applications. In the Kubernetes Data Protection report, GigaOm described the Kasten K10 platform as a “mature solution” with advanced features used by cloud and IT administrators and developers across small and large enterprise environments.

“[Kasten K10’s] Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) features and centrally managed policy model are well aligned with large enterprise and self-service requirements,” said Joep Piscaer, GigaOm analyst and author of the report. “Its application-aware data management framework, Kanister, has Kasten- and community-provided blueprints for application-consistent backups.”

Piscaer described Kasten by Veeam’s platform as being “extremely easy to use, with a high-quality GUI, consistent APIs and a handy CLI. Kasten K10 is designed to cope with large-scale environments, but it can be deployed in small infrastructures as well.” He also stated that Kasten K10’s new integrations into Veeam Backup & Recovery™ make it “well suited to protect complex applications spanning container, cloud-native and VM-based deployments at large enterprise deployments.”

“Being named a Leader and Outperformer in GigaOm’s 2023 Kubernetes Data Protection report is a great validation of the work we’ve done to provide customers with the very best Kubernetes backup data management, protection and security protection,” said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product Management at Kasten by Veeam. “Kasten by Veeam is proud that we have once again been ranked in the top category for simple, scalable and secure data management with the flexibility modern enterprises need — a testament to our continued market leadership.”

The GigaOm report gave Kasten by Veeam an exceptional rating for outstanding focus and execution across five key criteria: interoperability, environmental awareness, application and data migration, cloud data services backup, data integrity and security.

Kasten K10’s key features include the following:

• Veeam Backup & Replication management console integration — The solution’s single pane of glass uniquely positions the platform to help the 450,000+ Veeam customer base expand into Kubernetes.
• Integration with Openshift — Kasten by Veeam’s Kubernetes-native approach enables customers to get up and running with a quick touch on KubeVirt/OpenShift virtualization support.
• Disaster recovery that shows transformations — Kasten by Veeam’s flexible approach provides freedom of choice in addition to providing a peek into MultiCluster UX.
• Scaling simplicity — Intelligent policies with backup Windows and job-staggering features make Kasten K10 easier to use and easier to scale, while still ensuring Kubernetes applications are properly protected.

To download a copy of the GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection, please click here. For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try Kasten K10 for FREE.

About Kasten by Veeam

Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes business unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About Veeam Software
Veeam^® provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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The #1 Kubernetes backup leader continues rapid growth as industry demand accelerates, strong Q4 drives momentum into 2023 to support increased Kubernetes deployments

COLUMBUS, Ohio – March 1, 2023 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and recovery, today announced near triple digit Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) year-over-year growth in fiscal year 2022, driven by strong demand for simple, secure protection for Kubernetes deployments. Kasten, the fastest growing business within Veeam, also expanded its footprint by doubling the size of its staff and extending its presence in the enterprise space and key vertical markets such as finance, wireless telecom, and the public sector.

“Kasten by Veeam had a fantastic year reflecting the growth in demand for backup and disaster recovery tools within containerized environments,” said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product Management at Kasten by Veeam. “Based on how our customers are using Kubernetes, we believe there will be an acceleration of interest this year as companies pivot to DevOps and automation. It’s an exciting time for Kasten by Veeam as we continue to deliver incredible innovation that is helping more customers realize the potential of containers to solve real-work business challenges.”

The release of K10 V5.5 at the end of 2022 provides powerful new capabilities around Autonomous Operations and Cloud Native Expansion. It addressed challenges found in Kubernetes around operational complexity at scale and across diverse deployment environments while supporting an organization’s ability to automate data management tasks. With containers and Kubernetes trending to a mainstream production platform, the company anticipates that third-party backup tools will become the norm in data protection.

According to recent ESG research commissioned by Kasten, “83% of organizations will be using containers in the next 12 months,” said Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director at ESG. “The container backup market will continue at a fast pace, considering 93% of organizations think it is important to have a container backup and recovery management solution that works across multiple public cloud infrastructure.“

Kubernetes adoption has exponentially increased over the years, and the need for greater data protection is expected to continue this growth trajectory, making education a key step to success. Kasten’s learning platform, KubeCampus.io, which offers free Kubernetes courses and hands-on labs, saw a 50% increase in users in 2022 — surpassing 15,000 users and 12,000 labs taken by the end of the year.

For more information on Kasten by Veeam, please visit www.kasten.io or try K10 for FREE.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam^® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About Veeam Software
Veeam^® provides organizations with resiliency through data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that give businesses peace of mind their apps and data are protected and always available so that they can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 72% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

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New features and capabilities aim at scaling simplicity to mitigate operational complexity and help cloud native environments reach their full potential

DETROIT, MI; KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 — October 25, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, a market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the release of the NEW Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5 Kubernetes data management platform. Kubernetes applications are growing at a rapid pace. However, operations teams with the required skill sets to meet these demands are not able to keep up, which has made scaling simplicity of operations imperative. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, the latest release of Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5 bridges this skills gap by introducing powerful new capabilities around Autonomous Operations and Cloud Native Expansion. As a complement to the suite of modern data protection and recovery solutions offered by Veeam to protect all data assets across virtual, cloud-native, SaaS, Kubernetes and physical workloads, these advancements will address the challenges historically found in Kubernetes around operational complexity at scale, especially due to the diversity of deployment environments.

“Organizations need to not only transition to a new, modern cloud native development technology and workflow but also require operations at scale without having an army of Certified Kubernetes Administrators,” said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product and Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam. “This is where Kasten K10 shines – by scaling simplicity. Our latest release augments an organization’s workforce so that the enterprise can realize cloud-native technology and operational benefits by automating several data management tasks.”

Backing up and protecting Kubernetes environments on top of designing and maintaining cloud-native deployments is a compounding issue for an already short-staffed workforce. Yet at the same time, the percentage of enterprises investing in Kubernetes and containerization in production continues to grow, making it critical for organizations to optimize and de-risk their large Kubernetes investments. Enabling intelligence and automation while broadening technology partnerships and business agreements ensures enterprises have wide access to the most up to date advancements across a spectrum of technologies in the backup and recovery process for scaling simplicity.

New capabilities of Kasten K10 V5.5 include:

• Intelligent Policies: Kasten K10 capabilities for intelligent decisions that simplify data protection at scale. Users can now factor in the application’s non-peak usage hours and specify a backup window accordingly. Kasten K10 will not only honor the backup windows but will further automate the sequencing of the underlying backup jobs. This optimizes the utilization of the underlying infrastructure and automatically handles conflict resolution when multiple policies are scheduled.

• Boosted ease of deployment and scale: Kasten K10 further eases the onboarding by providing an intuitive graphical wizard to generate the most suitable install manifests that can be visualized and repeated for multiple installs. Kasten K10 also features IPv6 support to resolve IP exhaustion problems and address growing edge deployments with support for Amazon EKS with IPv6 inter-Pod communication, and GitOps workflow integrations offering scalable workflows for efficient app deployment as well as backup/restore.

• Expanded cloud-native ecosystems: Ensures customers have access to the most up-to-date advancements across increasing workload types, geographic regions, storage types, and security. Kasten K10 now supports RedHat OpenShift Virtualization that enables you to run and manage Virtual Machine (VM) and container workloads side by side on Red Hat OpenShift. Additionally, Kasten K10 adds support for OCP 4.10, Kubernetes 1.23, Azure Files as a backup target and Azure Managed identity, along with additional regions for AWS (Jakarta) and GCP (Milan).

“Kubernetes adoption and containerization are increasingly becoming mainstream across enterprises, but current manual steps, constant oversight and ever-present cyberattacks continue to inject complexity in the Kubernetes backup environment, hampering DevOps teams’ ability to scale,” said Danny Allan, CTO and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam. “With Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5, customers can ensure adequate data protection in Kubernetes environments by offering autonomous operations that support cloud native expansion goals. What’s more, Kasten by Veeam’s membership with The Open Source Security Foundation strongly underlines the company’s commitment to contributing to security best practices and education for both Kasten and Veeam customers, as well as the industry at large.”

General availability of the new Kasten K10 V5.5 is expected later this quarter. To learn more about Kasten and see Kasten K10 V5.5 in action, visit Kasten by Veeam at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America.

For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try K10 for FREE.

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“The demand for cloud-native backup is rising, but enterprises are faced with the daunting task of doing backup securely at scale. Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5 update provides Quality of Service for backup, introducing automation policies that optimize the backup workflow without compromising compliance or security regardless the scale of deployment. Additionally, new cloud-native ecosystem support broadens customer choice for how they want to transition into cloud-native backup.” – Johnny Yu, Research Manager, Storage and Computing at IDC

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes business unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

Contact:
Veeam Software
Director, Global Public Relations
Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

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New Kubernetes environment will rely on Kasten K10 to ensure reliable backup and recovery of data and applications to strengthen security and meet Herotel’s RTOs

COLUMBUS, Ohio — September 7, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and mobility, today announced that Cyberlogic, a Veeam Cloud & Services Provider (VCSP) Gold partner, is delivering Backup as a Service (BaaS) to Herotel leveraging Kasten’s industry-leading solution, Kasten K10 by Veeam. As the largest fixed wireless internet service provider in South Africa and a major player in the local fiber industry, Herotel connects 140,000 home and business users to the internet across more than 400 towns and cities in South Africa. The company will benefit from reliable backup and recovery of its Kubernetes data and applications, and the ability to meet aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs) to ensure service availability for clients.

Based in South Africa, Cyberlogic’s customers include small- to medium-sized enterprises. The company also maintains multiple tier-one partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, including Dell and Microsoft. Cyberlogic provides Herotel with InfrastructureasaService (IaaS) through a cloud tenant for multiple environments, as well as support for Microsoft 365, including change management, training and adoption. In 2021, Herotel decided to move to a cloud-based, containerized development environment to keep pace with market demands, and chose Kubernetes. Cyberlogic replaced Herotel’s legacy development environment with a Kubernetes environment deployed across multiple zones. A critical requirement was a robust backup and recovery solution to secure and protect Kubernetes data and applications.

“We weren’t 100% happy with the results delivered by the cloud provider’s native backup and recovery tool, so we decided to do a trial of Kasten K10 — and it worked flawlessly,” said Mark Tew, CEO at Cyberlogic. “Thanks to Kasten K10, Herotel now benefits from a highly available Kubernetes environment and the scalability of a cloud-agnostic solution.”

Cyberlogic’s backup and recovery service offering is the latest development in a multi-year engagement with Herotel, who can now leverage Kasten’s application-aware, fully integrated solution across multiple nodes and regions. Cyberlogic provided a quick implementation of Kasten K10 while handling a high degree of complexity.

“We were really impressed with the short time it took for implementation within a relatively complex and critical environment for Herotel,” said Jason Gurwitz, Head of Infrastructure and Security at Herotel.

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for orchestrating containers in edge environments driven by applications like video streaming and AI. Its use in production has increased by 300% since 2016, according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. As such, adoption of Kasten K10 has accelerated over the past year, increasing by a factor of 10 in 2021 alone.

“Most enterprise organizations are either adopting or planning to adopt containers in production environments in the next 12 months[1],” said Andy Langsam, senior vice president at Kasten by Veeam. “As more and more organizations across industries continue to adopt Kubernetes for developing innovative applications faster and more cost-effectively, reliable backup and recovery is essential. We expect our partners to see increased interest in service offerings, and top partners such as Cyberlogic have the knowledge and expertise to collaborate and deliver those services seamlessly.”

Download the full case study here. For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try Kasten K10 for FREE.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

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Automotive software company saves 150 hours per month on backup management and reduces risk by providing future-proof, reliable backup capabilities

COLUMBUS, OH – June 21, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, today announced that Zenseact is using Veeam Availability Suite™ and Kasten K10 by Veeam for reliable data backup, protection and disaster recovery solutions and to streamline their containerized development processes, giving them a competitive edge in a very fast-paced, innovative industry.

Based in Sweden with a team of employees from more than 55 countries, Zenseact creates ground-breaking automotive software with the ultimate goal of developing self-driving software that enables customers to feel safe and relaxed. Originating from Volvo Cars and Zenuity, Zenseact is at the forefront of the market for autonomous vehicle software with a safety-first mindset.

To retain its position at the leading edge, the company maintains a rapid pace of innovation, driven by data-intensive IT. Zenseact must be able to recover data quickly and effectively in the event of a disaster, making backup processes crucial for the company to operate without interruptions or operations delays. Zenseact relies on Veeam Availability Suite as its backup, recovery and monitoring solution to protect approximately 400 mission-critical virtual machines (VMs) across its IT environment.

“We selected Veeam Availability Suite for its rich feature set, flexibility and scalability. The solution aligns with our agile mindset and best practices,” said Johan Jansson, Scrum Master and Service Owner at Zenseact. “Veeam enables us to move fast to deliver new capabilities to our customers – because we know we can always roll our systems back quickly and easily.”

The company began moving workloads from VMs to containers to reduce overhead and free up time and resources for development and innovation. Zenseact evaluated five different data protection solutions for containerized workloads and ultimately selected Kasten K10 – a cloud native backup and recovery solution for Kubernetes data and applications – to provide both freedom of choice and safety to their developers, so they may perform to their full potential while keeping risk of data loss low.

“According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, 56% of organizations currently run containers in production or plan to in the next 12 months,” said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam. “Zenseact is an industry leader in rapidly transforming their business and moving their workloads from VMs to containers. As a long-time user of Veeam technology to ensure that data is protected end-to-end across their IT environment, adding Kasten by Veeam K10 which is purpose-built for Kubernetes, is the ideal data protection solution for their containerized workloads and to ensure Zenseact’s environment is fully protected.”

“Together, Kasten K10 and Veeam Availability Suite are supporting our strategic transition to containerized workloads,” said Jansson. “We’re committed to using the solutions long term and feel confident they will evolve alongside us. Already, we’ve seen the positive impact on upcoming functionality.”

The Zenseact team hit the ground running with Kasten K10, quickly becoming familiar with the interface and setting up backup policy automation for containers to cut the risk of a data-loss incident and delaying the product development process. Today, the company’s 500 developers can automatically include backups when they set up a new project and easily make changes at a later date, giving developers flexibility while keeping management simple.

By combining Kasten K10 and Veeam Availability Suite, Zenseact prevents the IT team from being a bottleneck when it comes to backups. Both developers and IT specialists at Zenseact save 150 hours per month on backup management thanks to Veeam and Kasten K10 technology, enabling them to work more productively.

“Kasten becoming part of Veeam is a great advantage for us,” Jansson said. “As we work towards our ambition of safe, accessible self-driving cars, we’re using Veeam and Kasten technology to ensure our developers always have the data they need for innovation.”

To learn more, visit:
https://www.kasten.io/kubernetes/resources/customer-case-studies/zenseact

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects 450,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners and has offices in more than 30 countries. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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New features and capabilities bolster Kubernetes security across the board, help apply shift-left security to data protection and assists with continued ecosystem expansion

VALENCIA, Spain – May 16, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the new Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.0 Kubernetes data management platform. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, this latest release is focused on delivering a comprehensive risk management strategy, streamlined CI/CD pipelines and new ecosystem advancement details that optimize and de-risk Kubernetes investments. These advancements all aim to help the expanding Kubernetes community work more efficiently and securely in cloud native applications.

“As ransomware attacks continue to remain the highest concern for organizations, a comprehensive risk management strategy to help continuously identify risk, protect data, detect attacks and deliver disaster recovery for cloud native applications is crucial,” said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Products and Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam. “Our latest release remains focused on helping enterprises minimize the financial impact caused by attacks on data and cloud applications. At the same time, we’re also supporting developer needs for backup solutions that not only integrate with the CI/CD tools they use but pave the way for automation to detect and protect applications as they get deployed.”

Backing up Kubernetes applications while accommodating agile, shift-left development and distributed deployment environments remains a challenge for many organizations. Appliance-based approaches do not properly account for the unique characteristics of Kubernetes and replication doesn’t protect against infrastructure failures, data corruption, data loss or ransomware. Having a cloud native solution in place ensures secure and reliable backup without disrupting workflows or adding complexity that could inhibit innovation.

New key features of Kasten K10 V5.0 include:

• Security everywhere: Enhanced platform hardening, including KMS integration with AWS KMS and HashiCorp Vault, coupled with the ease of use of Kubernetes-native RBAC objects exposed in UI dashboards, ransomware attack detection with AWS S3 or S3-compatible storage supporting S3 Object Lock, data protection policy guardrails and support for Veeam-hardened Linux repositories with immutability that offers comprehensive ransomware protection.
• Shift-left applied to data protection: Fully integrated add-ons for newly launched Amazon EKS Blueprints, Level III certified Red Hat OpenShift Operator with full lifecycle capabilities, new built-in Kanister blueprints for MS SQL and PostgreSQL Operator and simplified UX for Operations with new Blueprint Editor for a more intuitive and streamlined workflow, and new Reports Generator for critical metrics.
• Expanded ecosystem: Enabling integrations with industry-leading technologies and platforms ensures that customers can have freedom of choice in an expanding array of solutions across the ecosystem, including support for Red Hat Marketplace, SUSE Rancher Marketplace, VMWare vSphere with Tanzu and Falco.

“Cloud native applications are being developed at a pace never seen before, and with DevOps and shift-left principles, application deployment in Kubernetes is proving faster and far more scalable. Yet, at the same time, backing up Kubernetes applications remains a constant challenge,” said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam. “This latest release provides secure backup and recovery for Kubernetes data and applications while eliminating the complexity in deployment and operations for Kubernetes in the enterprise. As more Veeam customers look to leverage Kubernetes, Kasten K10 V5.0’s ease-of-use will be critical to support data protection and backup in their new environments.”

“The alarming rate of ransomware attacks and the increased use of cloud-native application development means it’s only a matter of time before cloud-native applications become more heavily targeted,” said Johnny Yu, Research Manager, Storage and Computing at IDC. “Now more than ever, enterprises need a backup solution that is flexible across multiple clouds and can proactively offer visibility into a potential attack before it happens. With its new K10 V5.0 release, Kasten by Veeam has positioned itself as a solid choice for companies that are looking for comprehensive, end-to-end ransomware protection for Kubernetes environments.”

The capabilities introduced in NEW Kasten K10 V5.0 underscores Kasten’s dedication to Kubernetes users by integrating DevOps and shift-left principles and hardened security. General availability of the new Kasten K10 V5.0 is expected in June. To learn more about Kasten and see Kasten K10 V5.0 in action, visit Kasten by Veeam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, as well as at VeeamON 2022.

For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try K10 for FREE — https://www.kasten.io/free-kubernetes

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten by Veeam brings Software AG simplified Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery to support larger volumes of data and applications to meet the needs of a growing number of global cloud customers

COLUMBUS, Ohio – April 12, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the leader in Kubernetes backup, today announced Software AG has chosen Kasten K10 by Veeam for effortless and reliable backup and recovery of ARIS®, the company’s premier business process analysis and management software solution for organizations seeking to embrace digital transformation. Kasten K10 offers a significant reduction in the recovery time needed to restore in the event of an outage, potentially allowing Software AG to recover in hours instead of days.

Software AG — https://www.softwareag.com/en_corporate.html — the second largest enterprise software company in Germany, has more than 4,700 employees in over 70 countries, a customer base of more than 10,000 enterprises and empowers truly connected enterprises. Software AG’s Business Process Transformation product offering, ARIS, enables customers to create, manage and analyze their business processes end to end. With six ARIS editions available to meet the needs of customers of various sizes and usage requirements, the platform comprises hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and supports customers around the globe. As Software AG’s customer base continued to grow, the company knew it needed a modern backup and recovery solution to protect larger volumes of data and applications quickly — the company’s current in-house, propriety solution needed to be replaced.

Software AG set out in search of a robust and scalable Kubernetes backup and recovery solution that was able to handle vast amounts of data and minimize recovery time in case of an outage. Quickly, it found Kasten K10. With Kasten K10’s “set it and forget it” workflows managing backups at scale via automation and dynamic policies, eliminating the need to create custom scripts, Software AG can accommodate more data volume for customers, without the risk of failing to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for service availability and uptime. The application mobility feature of Kasten K10 also saves time by enabling the team at Software AG to move applications between clusters, quickly and automatically, regardless of the underlying infrastructure, helping avoid vendor lock-in.

“As our customer base continued to grow, we knew we needed a backup and recovery solution that provided scalable multi-cluster backup and recovery while minimizing recovery time,” said Marc Lehmann, Director ARIS Governance & Cloud at Software AG. “We chose Kasten K10 [by Veeam] for our Kubernetes backup and recovery solution because of its extensibility, cloud-native architecture, ability to integrate with existing infrastructure and because it’s purpose-built for Kubernetes.”

According to the 2022 Veeam Data Protection Trends Report — https://go.veeam.com/wp-data-protection-trends-2022 — , 56% of organizations are using containers in production already, with another 35% headed that way. As Kubernetes becomes mainstream among enterprises, backup and recovery for Kubernetes environments to ensure data protection must follow. By deploying Kasten K10, organizations can continue to accelerate their digital transformations journeys with the peace of mind that their data remains protected.

With Kasten K10, Software AG now receives end-to-end protection for stateful and stateless applications, can mitigate risk of hardware failure and accidental or malicious data loss and maintains continuous operations with secure, high-performance backups. Kasten K10 provides a simple way to get the aggregate and real-time status of critical parameters with multi-cluster management and backups at scale. Its intuitive GUI requires no training and offers automation and dynamic policies to auto-discover, adapt and map policies to current states of applications.

“We’re committed to ensuring we’re able to meet the data protection demands our customers need,” said Trevor Seim, VP of Sales at Kasten by Veeam. “We look forward to continued growth with Software AG as they evaluate additional use cases for Kasten K10, such as migrating data between clusters, and rolling out the platform into other business units and software products.”

For more product information, visit Kasten K10 by Veeam — https://www.kasten.io/product/

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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The #1 Kubernetes backup leader quadruples staff size, announces platform innovations and establishes new Go-To-Market partnerships to serve the growing need for Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and mobility

COLUMBUS, Ohio – January 25, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and mobility, today announced its track record for rapid growth continued in fiscal 2021, the first full year of results posted since Kasten was acquired by Veeam.

Kasten by Veeam reported a 900% year-over-year (YoY) increase in bookings for 2021 and quadrupled the size of its staff in 2021 to serve the rising demand for simple and secure protection for Kubernetes deployments.

“Kasten by Veeam is entering 2022 stronger than ever,” said Andy Langsam, senior vice president of Kasten by Veeam. “As Kubernetes adoption dramatically accelerates, customer demand for backup and disaster recovery tools continues to grow. We are building our team, strengthening our community efforts, solidifying partnerships and investing in product enhancements to address the data management needs of modern enterprises that rely on technologies that support a strong Kubernetes ecosystem.”

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for orchestrating containers in edge environments driven by applications like video streaming and AI. Its use in production has increased by 300% since 2016, according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Adoption of Kasten K10, the company’s platform for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, accelerated over the past year — increasing by a factor of 10 in 2021.

Kasten currently protects millions of containers in production and can scale to protect massive multi-cluster deployments with multiple hundreds of nodes in enterprise environments. The company continues to see significant interest in container-specific data management solutions from high-performance enterprise segments, including banking and the financial sector, 5G and edge computing.

“Containers have become pervasive in production infrastructure, often running mission-critical applications — that’s why these environments must be protected with resilience in mind. Our research shows that there is a data protection disconnect, often leaving container infrastructure, and the business, potentially exposed,” said Christophe Bertrand, Senior Analyst at ESG. “That’s why we believe that the Kasten by Veeam solution is a critical component organizations should deploy to deliver on their data protection and business service levels. With support from Veeam, we expect Kasten to continue building momentum as they further extend their solution roadmap.”

Kasten by Veeam released two major commercial updates to its K10 platform in 2021, as well as other capabilities and features that accommodate multi-tenant cloud environments, automate application migrations, and deliver scalable backup, disaster recovery and application mobility across enterprise Kubernetes deployments. These updates included V4.0, which delivered the industry’s first Kubernetes-native protection capabilities focused on ransomware attacks. A second update, V4.5, delivered an improved out-of-the-box experience, expanded the platform’s edge capabilities and broadened the firm’s ecosystem support for data services and partner technologies.

Kasten by Veeam continued to expand its partner ecosystem and add integrations to key technology platforms throughout the past 12 months. Kasten by Veeam announced new Go-To-Market partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Red Hat, IBM Cloud and Azure during 2021. Kasten K10 is now also available in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere and the Red Hat Marketplace.

The company announced investments in Kubernetes education and community during 2021. It contributed a new open source project called Kubestr that enables developers and operators to evaluate Kubernetes cluster storage configurations and performance. Kasten by Veeam also launched the Kasten Kubernetes Learning Series, a free educational program designed to improve the Kubernetes skill sets of all levels of practitioners, including novices, developers, operations and Kubernetes administrators. Close to 10,000 users leveraged this unique, hands-on lab-based program within the first quarter of its launch in Q4’21.

For more information, download the white paper “5 Kubernetes Backup Best Practices” — https://www.kasten.io/kubernetes/resources/white-papers/5-kubernetes-backup-best-practices

or

Try Kasten for free — https://www.kasten.io/try-kasten-k10

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About Veeam Software
Veeam® is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects over 400,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners and has offices in more than 30 countries. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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New Partnership Supports Easy Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for Containerized Applications

SAN MATEO, Calif. – January 12, 2022 — / BackupReview.info / — Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), a leading storage cloud platform, announced a new partnership with Kasten by Veeam, a leader in Kubernetes data protection, to enable companies to easily back up and restore Kubernetes applications using its B2 Cloud Storage service.

The partnership means companies managing backups of their Kubernetes containers with Kasten software can now designate the Backblaze B2 platform as their storage destination to:

• Back up and restore production stateful Kubernetes applications.
• Safeguard application data from ransomware encryption with Object Lock for immutability.
• Support regulatory compliance and/or corporate disaster recovery mandates.

“Kubernetes containers are the standard for many organizations building, deploying, and scaling applications with portability and efficiency,” said Nilay Patel, VP of Sales and Partnerships at Backblaze. “Backblaze and Kasten together offer a compelling solution to support these organizations’ business continuity needs with set-it-and-forget-it ease and cost effectiveness.”

The joint solution is fully scalable at enterprise grade. What’s more, organizations only pay for storage used, with no data retention penalties for deleting past backups.

“Backup and protection are paramount in a world in which data is everything and cyberattacks continue to rise,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP of Product, Kasten by Veeam. “The Backblaze-Kasten partnership offers the application protection and disaster recovery support companies seek, with flexibility and freedom to choose their preferred storage partner.”

The integrated solution is generally available now. Get the full story on the Backblaze blog.

About Backblaze
Backblaze is a leading independent cloud provider that makes it astonishingly easy for businesses and consumers to store, use, and protect their data. With nearly two billion gigabytes of data storage under management, the company currently helps approximately 500,000 customers in over 175 countries to back up & archive data, protect it from ransomware, host content, manage media, build their applications, and more. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. For more information, please go to www.backblaze.com

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy to use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Users benefit from cost-effective, scalable, and simple storage and backup capabilities with immutability for cloud-native applications in Kubernetes

BOSTON, MA – December 8, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced that it has partnered with Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, to provide enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility for Kubernetes. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, Kasten K10 data management platform combined with Wasabi’s hot cloud storage enables users to access data in milliseconds with industry-leading data protection and immutability against accidental or malicious backup corruption.

As more enterprises adopt microservice architecture and containers, Kubernetes has become the fastest-growing infrastructure software providing high availability and scalability of application services. However, these benefits do not extend to customer data, and therefore data and application protection are a critical priority for Kubernetes workloads as enterprises must extract data from the Kubernetes environment and store it securely. Whether accidental or malicious, preventing catastrophic data loss is increasingly challenging, especially when defending against ransomware attacks, mitigating the impact of human error or ensuring the chain of custody and regulatory compliance of data.

Now with Wasabi’s affordable, fast, and reliable hot cloud storage on-demand, Kasten customers can treat their data as hot data, shortening upload windows and quickly accessing their data for faster restore times. Wasabi is 80% less expensive than traditional cloud providers, and there are no fees for egress or API requests.

“As Kubernetes becomes the de facto application system for enterprises everywhere, data storage, backup and protection have never been more important,” said David Boland, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Wasabi. “By partnering with Kasten by Veeam, Kubernetes users everywhere will have instant access to their application data with industry-leading backup and immutability that provides a faster, affordable, more secure, and most importantly simple experience for users.”

Kasten streamlines application protection with the simplicity and portability that IT and Operations teams need to operate cloud-native applications that use multiple data services and are instantiated across multiple clusters, regions or clouds. K10 protects backups with end-to-end encryption and includes S3 Object Lock immutable storage support from Wasabi to add a new level of data protection, preventing malicious attacks like ransomware or accidental operations that can lead to significant data loss or alteration.

“Data protection is a top-of-mind concern for organizations across the globe as with the growth in cyber-attacks like ransomware,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP of Product, Kasten by Veeam. “Our partnership with Wasabi offers a solution with instantly accessible data and object-level immutability to deliver the simplicity, security and affordability our customers need to protect and optimize their Kubernetes investments.”

About Wasabi Technologies:
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

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Kasten K10 by Veeam adds support for Kubernetes applications on AWS and on premises via AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – AWS re:Invent Booth #341 – November 30, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the availability of the Kasten K10 Kubernetes data management platform in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere. AWS Marketplace customers can now seamlessly purchase and license Kasten K10. Enterprises will be able to extend the same protection offered by Kasten K10 for Kubernetes applications on AWS to their Kubernetes clusters on-premises to better protect and optimize their Kubernetes investments.

“Veeam, a member of the AWS Partner Network, has expanded its relationship with AWS by launching the Kasten by Veeam well-architected backup and disaster recovery products for AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere,” said Chris Grusz, Director of AWS Marketplace, AWS. “Now, AWS customers can find Kasten by Veeam in AWS Marketplace and deploy on any Kubernetes cluster in any environment, in AWS or on-premises Kubernetes clusters, creating simple and secure protection for growing Kubernetes application deployments regardless of physical location.”

More than 90% of organizations used Kubernetes in 2020 — an increase of 33% over the previous two years, according to a recent report by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).^[i] To address the Kubernetes data protection needs of enterprises adopting hybrid cloud strategies, the benefits of Kasten K10’s availability in AWS Marketplace include:

• Easy procurement and flexible license management in AWS Marketplace: Flexible procurement options include contract options, where customers subscribe to the application for a term of one month, one year, two years, or three years. With the support of AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere, Kasten K10’s AWS Marketplace listing for hybrid deployments includes support for on-premises clusters with upstream Kubernetes in addition to clusters on AWS.
• Simple, reliable, AWS-integrated backup and recovery: Purpose-built for Kubernetes, Kasten K10 can be deployed in minutes within Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon EKS Anywhere. The solution’s application-centric approach and deep integrations with the most popular relational and NoSQL databases, and storage systems provide backup/restore of entire Kubernetes applications. In addition, the solution provides support of several AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) for exceptional operational simplicity.
• Enhanced ransomware protection with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Object Lock: A common Amazon S3 target can be used as reliable target storage for all on-premises and cloud-native Amazon EKS backups. Using Amazon S3 Object Lock, Kasten K10 delivers a Kubernetes data protection solution against ransomware and insider-threats.
• Application mobility and disaster recovery (DR) across Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere: Moving applications across Amazon EKS clusters on premises, on cloud infrastructure, and across AWS Regions is an extremely powerful capability made easy by Kasten K10. The solution supports a variety of use cases, including test/dev, performance and scalability testing, and even full cluster DR.

“Availability in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere will bring the benefits of the hardened Kubernetes backup and DR capabilities offered by Kasten K10 by Veeam to a wider range of users,” said Andy Langsam, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Public Cloud Solutions and Kasten by Veeam. “With more than 90% of organizations worldwide planning to rely on a mix of on-premises/dedicated private clouds, multiple public clouds, and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs by 2022,^[ii] accelerating Kasten’s capabilities will be beneficial to many of our customers and prospects. This further strengthens our commitment to support our customers’ business transformation efforts to future-ready architectures and procurement options.”

“As customers migrate more of their environments to cloud and container environments, they are looking for the ability to easily flex their subscription licenses as their resource requirements change, to improve cost efficiency,“ said Krista Macomber, Senior Analyst Data Protection at Evaluator Group. “The new availability of Kasten by Veeam in AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere increases flexibility and convenience for customers when it comes to licensing and procurement for container solutions, wherever they might reside.”

For more information, visit www.kasten.io or try Kasten K10 for free.

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

[i] https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/11/17/cloud-native-survey-2020-containers-in-production-jump-300-from-our-first-survey/

[ii] Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2020 Predictions, Doc # US44640719, Oct 2019

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Provides Fully S3-Compatible, Exabyte-Scalable and Cost-effective Object Storage for Protecting Modern Kubernetes Applications

SAN MATEO, CA – Oct. 21, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Cloudian® today announced the integration of its HyperStore® object storage with the Kasten K10 Kubernetes data management platform. As a Kasten backup target, HyperStore provides modern, cloud-native storage with complete S3 compatibility, limitless scalability and ransomware protection on-premises or in a hybrid cloud—all at up to 70% less cost than alternative storage solutions.

Enterprises are increasingly deploying Kubernetes-managed, containerized applications in full production, making it essential that they protect these applications and their data. Kasten by Veeam® is an award-winning leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, providing the portability and scalability needed to meet the challenges of protecting applications across distributed, cloud-native environments.

With Cloudian as a target for Kasten K10, customers will now be able to take full advantage of HyperStore’s benefits, including:

• Modular scalability – Start with just three nodes and scale up to an exabyte without interruption.
• Self-service – Quickly and easily provision storage using a lightweight operator.
• Multi-tenancy – Establish distinct namespaces for developer and production workloads while managing them from a single platform.
• Ransomware protection (S3 Object Lock) – Create immutable backups that prevent cybercriminals from deleting or altering data, enabling fast recovery of the uninfected data without paying ransom.
• Enterprise-grade security – Protect data with encryption in flight and at rest, integrated firewall, RBAC/IAM and SAML access controls, and certification with the most rigorous regulatory requirements, such as Common Criteria, FIPS and SEC Rule 17a-4(f).
• Cost savings – Save up to 70% over traditional storage and public cloud offerings.

“As organizations continue to expand their Kubernetes environments, they need a modern storage foundation to protect their applications and data and provide business continuity,” said Gaurav Rishi, vice president of product at Kasten by Veeam. “Kasten by Veeam is the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, and our partnership with Cloudian brings enterprises the scalability and security container-based workloads require.”

“In contrast to traditional storage systems that can’t meet the challenges of protecting modern applications and data, our HyperStore object storage platform was built on cloud-derived technology,” said Jon Toor, chief marketing officer at Cloudian. “That makes it an ideal backup target for Kasten K10, and today’s announcement builds on our long-standing collaboration with Veeam in helping customers protect their digital assets in the face of evolving demands.”

The new Cloudian solution is available today, and more information is available at https://bit.ly/CloudianandKasten

About Cloudian
Cloudian is the most widely deployed independent provider of object storage. With a native S3 API, it brings the scalability and flexibility of public cloud storage into the data center while providing ransomware protection and reducing TCO by up to 70% compared to traditional SAN/NAS and public cloud. The geo-distributed architecture enables users to manage and protect object and file data across sites—on-premises and in the cloud—from a single platform. Available as software or appliances, Cloudian supports conventional and containerized applications. More at cloudian.com

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New capabilities simplify data protection, backup and disaster recovery, and application mobility in Kubernetes environments

COLUMBUS, OH – Sept. 29, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the new Kasten K10 V4.5 Kubernetes data management platform. This latest release is focused on delivering an improved out-of-the-box experience, expanding edge capabilities, and broadening ecosystem support for data services and partner technologies. These innovations help organizations protect and optimize their Kubernetes investments.

“Current Kubernetes data management tools often require extensive expertise and set up time when first deployed, and lack process automation for managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting within an environment,” said Vaibhav Kamra, chief technical officer, Kasten by Veeam. “Offering improved capabilities for a smoother out of the box experience and providing additional ecosystem integration helps meet those needs as container adoption increases.”

Kasten K10 V4.5 new capabilities include a wealth of innovative features for Kubernetes DevOps teams and administrators:

Improved out-of-the-box experience
Rather than forcing users to utilize legacy tools with limited functionality, Kasten K10 V4.5 provides out of the box integration with a complete set of tools to effectively deploy, manage, monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments. The inclusion of pre-integrated tools can help minimize time to market for new deployments, and offers the flexibility to select the best tools available in the wider Kubernetes ecosystem to avoid vendor lock-in. Kasten K10 V4.5 also includes added coverage for Kafka, Apache Cassandra, K8ssandra, and Amazon RDS.

Edge support and improved data security
Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for orchestrating containers in edge environments driven by applications like video streaming, AI, and high-volume retail applications, Kasten K10 V4.5 supports secure and reliable data backup and recovery no matter where it is needed. The addition of K3s and EKS Anywhere Kubernetes distributions lets enterprises secure all edge applications from data loss, corruption, or malicious attacks.

Expanded ecosystem support
Customers continue to demand increased support of more storage, data services and Kubernetes distribution partner technologies. By broadening its ecosystem support, Kasten K10 provides more features and capabilities to a wider number of users, de-risking and enriching customer environments while enabling them to take advantage of the latest Kubernetes advancements. The latest release also makes it easier for customers to access and purchase Kasten K10 supported solutions through a wider range of partner organizations and their marketplaces.

For Kubernetes clusters running on VMware vSphere, Kasten K10 V4.5 extends the value of customer’s existing Veeam investments with support for shared Veeam® Backup & Replication™ storage repositories. This new innovation brings new backup target support for additional storage types, such as Cisco S3260 and HPE Apollo servers, ReFS- and XFS- formatted block storage, deduplication appliances, and SMB targets.

“With Veeam Backup & Replication data path integration added to Kasten K10 V4.5, Veeam customers have a pathway to extend their investments into their Kubernetes environments,” said Danny Allan, chief technology officer, Veeam. “Users will have better visibility and easier access to a common repository that includes containerized Kubernetes apps, access to Veeam’s portable backup file format for volume content that increases mobility, and more capabilities for enriching their Kubernetes deployments.”

According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the use of Kubernetes in production continues to grow with a 300% increase since 2016. As Kubernetes adoption accelerates across industries, Kasten K10 V4.5 provides mission-critical data management and decreased friction that admins and developers can immediately deploy into production workflows.

To learn more about Kasten K10 V4.5 and see it in action, visit Kasten by Veeam at KubeCon +CloudNativeCon 2021 North America in-person or virtually.

Kasten by Veeam is also sponsoring Cloud Native Data Management Day, a hybrid event co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021. The day-long event, which includes three tracks of on-demand presentations: community, technical, and industry, will feature a live in-person program held at the GRAMMY® Museum L.A. Live in Los Angeles, CA and live-streamed on the CNDM Day YouTube channel.

For more information, please visit www.kasten.io or try K10 for Free.

Partner Quote:
“The complexity of the cloud has no end – the more we innovate, the more expansive environments become. This impacts businesses across DevOps, ITOps and security teams that rely on Kubernetes as a common platform for the operation of these ever-expanding IT systems,” said Geoff Burke, Senior Backup Engineer, ThinkOn, Inc., a Kasten by Veeam partner. “To optimize cloud investments, businesses cannot be restricted by complexity and vendor lock-in. Kasten K10’s extensibility enables organizations to integrate the best capabilities the Kubernetes ecosystem can offer with the confidence that all data and applications are protected, resilient and scalable.”

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten K10 delivers Kubernetes native data management to protect the global non-governmental organization from cyber threats and data loss

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 1, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes Backup, today announced that the CyberPeace Institute has deployed Kasten K10 to protect its Kubernetes applications and reduce the risk of data loss and corruption.

The CyberPeace Institute is an independent non-governmental organization that protects vulnerable civilian populations from cyber threats, and relies on Kubernetes to develop applications to analyze, research, and investigate attacks. The organization selected Kasten K10 to protect these applications used by cybersecurity experts and the public at large, with its easy-to-use, high-performance backup, disaster recovery and application mobility capabilities across its entire hybrid cloud infrastructure.

“Secure and resilient protection for all our Kubernetes applications gives us the peace of mind that our partners and users will have uninterrupted access to our services during their greatest times of need — before, during, and after a cyberattack,” said Bruno Halopeau, Chief Technology Officer, CyberPeace Institute. “Kasten by Veeam is a true partner in our mission to promote the rights of people to security, dignity, and equity in cyberspace. Kasten K10 is instrumental in supporting our ability to help vulnerable populations prepare for and recover from cyberattacks, while advancing cybersecurity laws at all levels.”

The CyberPeace Institute’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) team was using an open-source backup solution that was time-consuming to configure, and lacked the ability to provide rapid, seamless backup. The organization has numerous data protection and security requirements, multiple Kubernetes clusters in its multi-cloud environment, and uses multiple CI/CD tools, DevOps monitoring tools, and databases. The CyberPeace Institute found Kasten K10 to be more robust and easier-to-use than its prior data protection solutions for secure, enterprise-ready data protection for all its Kubernetes applications without additional operational Kubernetes expertise.

“The CyberPeace Institute is a groundbreaking organization that protects vulnerable populations from falling prey to vicious cyberattacks. It is critical that these groups have unobstructed access to its applications and data – hardened backup, disaster recovery, and data mobility capabilities are an integral part of this,” said Trevor Seim, Head of Sales, Kasten by Veeam. “Kasten by Veeam is proud to support the work of the institute by alleviating the development headaches and data uncertainty that detract from its core mission, particularly as cyberattacks like ransomware are increasingly disruptive.”

The CyberPeace Institute found Kasten K10 to be more robust and easier-to-use than its prior data protection solutions. Kasten K10 offers one-click operation, deployment in minutes, an intuitive GUI, lower operating overhead, and faster development cycles.

“Traditional backup paradigms and processes don’t work with Kubernetes applications. The speed of change and the diversity of components involved require a new approach, especially when the data protection solution is also a mechanism for enabling data mobility and advanced data services,” according to GigaOm analyst, Enrico Signoretti, in the Key Criteria for Evaluating Kubernetes Data Protection.

Kasten K10 ensures the organization can easily perform compliance and restore testing to meet regulatory standards while providing flexibility, mobility, and scalability to support future applications. By reducing operational overhead, simplifying backup and recovery, and enabling non-technical team members to perform data management tasks, Kasten K10 helps the CyberPeace Institute save costs, time and resources dedicated to data protection.

For additional information on the business outcomes delivered by Kasten K10, read more in the case study — https://www.kasten.io/kubernetes/resources/customer-case-studies/cyberpeace-institute-deploys-kasten-k10-by-veeam-for-secure-reliable-backup-of-kubernetes-data-and-applications

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam, and the award-winning leader in Kubernetes Backup and Disaster Recovery. Kasten helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity.

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Kasten K10 certified Red Hat OpenShift Operator is now available through Red Hat Marketplace for deployment across any cloud or on-premises

COLUMBUS, OH – July 21, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam, the market leader for Kubernetes data management, today announced that the Kasten K10 data management platform is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments—public and private, cloud and on-premises. Through the marketplace, customers can take advantage of responsive support, streamlined billing and contracting, simplified governance, and single-dashboard visibility across clouds. Enterprises will now be able to more seamlessly try the fully featured, free edition of Kasten K10 built and tested to exacting standards directly through the OpenShift environment.

The Kasten K10 data management platform is purpose-built for Kubernetes. The platform’s application-centric approach and deep integrations with relational and NoSQL databases, storage systems, and Kubernetes distributions provide backup/restore and mobility of Kubernetes applications. Kasten K10 is a certified Red Hat OpenShift Operator, enabling enterprise operations teams to more seamlessly and efficiently provide backup and disaster recovery services for applications at scale.

“Enterprises are using Kasten K10 to perform critical functions like application-centric backup and granular recoveries in Red Hat OpenShift environments across public clouds and on-premises infrastructures,” said Andy Langsam, Senior Vice President, Veeam. “With integrations including OpenShift Routes, OAuth proxy, and Red Hat Marketplace, operations teams can start using Kasten K10 for seamless application mobility and portability, not just for backup and disaster recovery.”

Built in collaboration with Red Hat and IBM, Red Hat Marketplace delivers a hybrid multicloud trifecta for organizations moving into the next era of computing: a robust ecosystem of partners, an industry-leading Kubernetes container platform, and award-winning commercial support—all on a highly scalable backend powered by IBM. A private, personalized marketplace is also available through Red Hat Marketplace Select, enabling clients to provide their teams with easier access to curated software their organizations have pre-approved.

“We believe Red Hat Marketplace is an essential destination to unlock the value of cloud investments,” said Lars Herrmann, vice president, partner ecosystems, product and technologies, Red Hat. “With the marketplace, we are making it as fast and easy as possible for companies to implement the tools and technologies that can help them succeed in this hybrid multicloud world. We’ve simplified the steps to find and purchase tools like the Kasten K10 data management platform that are tested, certified and supported on Red Hat OpenShift, and we’ve removed operational barriers to deploying and managing these technologies on Kubernetes-native infrastructure.”

“We are happy to work with our partner, Kasten by Veeam, on their Red Hat Marketplace offering,” said Kelly Hartman, Vice President, Ecosystem and Business Development, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. “By featuring Kasten’s K10 data management platform, Red Hat Marketplace offers enterprises an additional way to obtain a certified solution for Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery, and mobility in OpenShift environments.”

Red Hat Marketplace is designed to meet the unique needs of developers, procurement teams and IT leaders through simplified and streamlined access to popular enterprise software. All solutions available through the marketplace, including Kasten K10, have been tested and certified for Red Hat OpenShift, allowing them to run anywhere OpenShift runs.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about the Kasten by Veeam and Red Hat OpenShift integrations and benefits — https://www.kasten.io/partner-red-hat
• Learn more about Red Hat — https://www.redhat.com/en

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Hardened Kubernetes data management enhances the most comprehensive Kubernetes backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility platform

COLUMBUS, OH – April 28, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the availability of the new Kasten K10 v4.0, its award-winning, Kubernetes data management platform. With unparalleled ease of use, end-to-end security, and a rich ecosystem of support across the entire application stack, the latest version of Kasten K10 is the most complete enterprise data management solution to date. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, Kasten K10 v4.0 delivers the industry’s first Kubernetes native ransomware protection capabilities, providing much needed immutability against ransomware attacks.

“Ransomware is one of the most pressing enterprise issues. The most conservative estimates put global ransomware losses upward of $20 billion in 2020[1]. These attacks increasingly target Kubernetes users since container adoption has become a prerequisite for IT modernization and digital transformation,” said Niraj Tolia, President and General Manager, Kasten by Veeam. “Malicious actors know that rapid development, gaps in install, and ongoing backup and operations issues can be easy threat vectors for ransomware. The new ransomware data protection capabilities in Kasten K10 plug these gaps, providing an extremely effective defense against ransomware attacks in Kubernetes environments.”

The capabilities introduced in the new Kasten K10 v4.0 underscore Kasten’s dedication to Kubernetes users, integrating cloud native architecture principles and hardened security capabilities into a Kubernetes-native platform that delivers continuous environment and performance optimization. Kasten K10 v4.0 is the company’s most significant update to its Kubernetes data management platform since its acquisition by Veeam, enabling DevOps and PlatformOps teams to effectively address the threat of ransomware in containerized environments. Kasten K10 v4.0 also includes a number of new partnership certifications and enhanced support for more data services. Additionally, the updated platform introduces several enhancements for ease of use that refine multi-cluster support with advanced automation capabilities for simplified backup and restore.

Key new features include:

Security:

• Kubernetes data protection to make immutability possible for protection against ransomware, malicious insider attacks, or accidental deletions

Ease of Use:

• Application-centric policies enabling authorized users to create Kasten K10 policies in an application’s namespace for protecting only that specific application

Expanded Ecosystem Support:

• Rich ecosystem integrations with support for HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, Nutanix Karbon, Red Hat OpenShift, Microsoft Azure Stack, and backup to NFS targets

“Evaluator Group research shows that cybersecurity and data protection have received a significant increase in attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in large part because ransomware attacks continue to become more frequent and more sophisticated,” said Krista Macomber, Senior Analyst, Evaluator Group. “Protecting against these types of attacks as enterprises prepare for their adoption of production and business-critical Kubernetes environments is critical. Capabilities such as those made available in Kasten K10 v4.0 can simplify the process of shoring up Kubernetes environments from ransomware, better positioning customers to avoid gaps in coverage that could lead to extremely costly data loss and downtime.”

“Kubernetes has quickly become one of the core enablers of hybrid-cloud, but it’s quick adoption in the enterprise has made it a likely target of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware,” said Kris Inapurapu, VP of Business Development, MinIO. “Immutability for Kubernetes applications, like what is delivered by K10 v4.0, in combination with consistent, performant object storage creates scalable and resilient backups that provide organizations with hardened defenses against the threat of ransomware and other malicious attacks.”

“As organizations aim for greater simplicity and deployment flexibility, containers and Kubernetes have become an important element of a multi-cloud data management strategy,” said Paul Speciale, Chief Product Officer, Scality. “Within the cloud-native ecosystem, however, Kubernetes backups have become prime targets of ransomware attacks. In these environments, applications and data need to be accessible and portable, but also hardened with protection capabilities like those Kasten provides. K10 v4.0 ensures organizations reap the benefits of easy-to-use, but ultra-resilient backup and disaster recovery capabilities as they scale their services and workloads without the looming threat of ransomware. Scality fully supports backups from Kasten K10 with data immutability over the S3 API and object locking.”

New Kasten K10 v4.0 will be featured during KubeCon EU + CloudNativeCon EU 2021 — https://www.kasten.io/kubecon — as well as VeeamON 2021 — https://www.veeam.com/veeamon —

[1] – https://www.barrons.com/articles/2020-was-a-bad-year-for-ransomware-2021-will-be-worse-51610124513

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New Community Project Helps DevOps and PlatformOps Optimize Kubernetes Storage Resources

COLUMBUS, OH – March 30, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced the launch of Kubestr, its new open source project to evaluate Kubernetes cluster storage configurations and performance. Kubestr enables developers and operators to identify the various storage options present in a given cluster, validate storage configurations, and evaluate storage performance using common benchmarking tools like fio. The goal of the Kubestr project is to enhance the ability of developers and operators to perform quick and comprehensive analysis of their Kubernetes environments and determine the optimal storage for their applications and workloads.

“Kubernetes represents a quickly changing computing paradigm with many moving parts and decisions to be made. The storage choices are overwhelming and every decision will have an impact on speed and performance,” said Michael Cade, Senior Technologist, Kasten by Veeam. “Each Kubernetes application will have different requirements for IOPS, bandwidth and latency, so the storage choice is not trivial. Kubestr offers a simple, easy way to make informed storage decisions, validate storage configurations, including the ability to leverage storage snapshots for data management, and perform benchmarking to ensure your application has the necessary performance and speed.”

The number of persistent storage options available to Kubernetes users has grown dramatically alongside the increasing deployment of stateful applications in and accelerating adoption of Kubernetes. The introduction of Container Storage Interface (CSI) has enabled storage providers to bring more cloud native offerings to market, creating an overwhelming choice of storage options for Kubernetes users. To address this, Kubestr offers open source capabilities that help determine the optimal data store to achieve the performance required for microservices running stateful workloads.

“Kasten has been dedicated to the open source community since we launched the company with the release of Kanister,” said Niraj Tolia, President and GM, Kasten by Veeam. “Now that we’re part of Veeam, we’re reinforcing our dedication with Kubestr, helping community members better understand their Kubernetes environments, make more informed storage decisions, and avoid the pitfalls of underperformance or overspending.”

Kubestr will be featured in two upcoming CNCF webinars:

• Thursday, April 1, 2021: CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Introducing Kubestr – A New Way to Explore your Kubernetes Storage Options — https://www.cncf.io/webinars/cncf-on-demand-webinar-introducing-kubestr-a-new-way-to-explore-your-kubernetes-storage-options/
• Wednesday, April 7, 2021: Cloud Native Live: Introducing Kubestr – A New Way to Explore your Kubernetes Storage Options — https://www.cncf.io/webinars/cloud-native-live-introducing-kubestr-a-new-way-to-explore-your-kubernetes-storage-options/

Click here — https://kubestr.io/ — to learn more about Kubestr or fork the project on GitHub — https://github.com/kastenhq/kubestr

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About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Kasten by Veeam Recognized for Kubernetes Backup and Recovery

LOS ALTOS, Calif. – Feb. 17, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam® announced today that the Kasten K10 Kubernetes data management platform was named Product of the Year by TechTarget’s Storage magazine and SearchStorage in the Backup and Disaster Recovery hardware, software and services category. Kasten K10 was recognized for its innovation in Kubernetes backup and recovery and its comprehensive features, including automation and data and application migration in Kubernetes deployments, which deliver functionality, value and ease of use.

According to SearchStorage, Kasten K10 is “one of the few products to address the needs of container data management with support for all major Kubernetes products and cloud services,” and “a clear leader in Kubernetes backup.”

Kasten K10 offers Kubernetes-native backup, disaster recovery, and application migration capabilities that make it easy to protect and scale Kubernetes deployments and operate increasingly complex modern IT environments. Purpose-built for Kubernetes with operational simplicity in mind, K10 offers users a quick to deploy and easy to use data management platform accommodates complex applications with high degrees of automation and portability so cloud and operations teams can ensure productivity, scalability, and security.

“Kubernetes adoption continues to grow and, with this, so does the complexity and scale of modern enterprise IT environments. In these environments, data management becomes critically important for flexibility, performance and security,” said Niraj Tolia, President and GM, Kasten by Veeam. “This latest recognition for K10 underscores its ability to dramatically reduce Kubernetes complexity and deliver innovation, security and operational simplicity to support data management at the cloud-native scale enterprises and DevOps teams demand.”

Receiving over 100 entries, the gold win in the SearchStorage Products of the Year competition recognizes Kasten’s success in fully addressing the data management and protection needs of firms operating in Kubernetes. The award comes shortly after recognition in Cloud Computing Magazine as a Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award winner, alongside the launch of the latest version of the Kasten K10 v3.0, which introduced new capabilities that enable enterprises to deploy Kasten’s Kubernetes-native backup, disaster recovery, and application migration capabilities across multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments and multi-tenant cloud environments.

For more information on Kasten or to try K10 for free, please visit kasten.io

About Kasten by Veeam
Kasten by Veeam is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten, an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam, has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

About the Storage magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year
Storage magazine and SearchStorage invited data storage product companies to nominate new or enhanced products for the 2020 Products of the Year awards. For previously available products, the upgrade must have incorporated significant new features. Products could be entered in one of five categories: backup and disaster recovery hardware, software and services; cloud storage; disk and disk subsystems; hyper-converged and composable infrastructures; and storage system and application software. Products were judged by a panel of industry experts, analysts, consultants, and Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors. Products were rated based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.

About TechTarget’s SearchStorage.com
TechTarget’s SearchStorage.com is the No. 1 online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers and staff rely on SearchStorage for the information they need to do their jobs.

SearchStorage content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, webcasts and white papers. TechTarget’s Storage magazine provides IT executives, managers and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.

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Enterprise Kubernetes Adoption Fuels Demand for Kasten Data Management Platform Leading to Acquisition by Veeam

LOS ALTOS, Calif., January 13, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, announced today that it achieved two significant growth milestones to start 2021—500% growth year-over-year (YoY) for Q4 2020 in both revenue and customers. This achievement concludes a momentous year for Kasten in which it was acquired by Veeam, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management™, and drove record adoption for its Kubernetes data management platform.

“2020 introduced countless challenges that will have a lasting impact on us personally and professionally. But it also showed us how important Kasten is in the fabric of the industry and communities it’s part of,” said Niraj Tolia, President and General Manager, Kasten. “We’re excited to kick off 2021 on a high note, having achieved several prestigious industry awards and recognition as a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection in the last year. We are continuing this momentum alongside Veeam to address the data management needs of modern enterprises that rely on technologies that support a strong Kubernetes ecosystem, like the Kasten data management platform.”

Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 30% today.[1] Kasten currently protects millions of containers in production and can scale to protect massive multi-cluster deployments with multiple hundreds of nodes in enterprise environments. The company continues to see significant interest in container-specific data management solutions from high-performance enterprise segments like banking and the financial sector, 5G, and edge computing. For industries like these that rely heavily on Kubernetes, Kasten released two major commercial updates to its platform in the past year, v2.5 and v3.0, as well as countless capabilities and features that accommodate multi-tenant cloud environments, automate data migration, and deliver scalable backup, disaster recovery and application mobility across enterprise Kubernetes deployments.

“Kasten has been instrumental in our approach to providing new strategies for enterprise grade data protection to our customers with containers and microservices in our new private cloud offering. Leveraging Kasten, Visma now provides a secure Kubernetes-native data management BaaS (backup as a service) platform to ensure SLAs are met for customers with critical applications and strict backup/restore and disaster recovery requirements to protect against accidental data loss, issues from ransomware, or a catastrophic event,” said Karim Blidi, System Manager, Visma.

The rapidly changing needs of digital enterprises alongside accelerated Kubernetes adoption is fueling significant demand for Kubernetes-native data management solutions. As a result, Kasten is quickly growing, tripling its headcount as it expands in the Americas and internationally across EMEA. Kasten’s expansion has been aided by its acquisition by Veeam, enabling the company to increase R&D, promote sales efforts, and enhance customer support across geographies, industries, and markets as they embrace future-ready architectures.

“The world of enterprise data protection is quickly changing—it’s on the cusp of a major evolution,” said Christophe Bertrand, Senior Analyst, ESG. “As businesses transition from on-prem infrastructure and legacy models for backup, disaster recovery, and mobility to hybrid or cloud-centric models, our research shows that the use of data to support digital transformation will emphasize the role of intelligent data management and protection in enterprise IT operations. The data management ecosystem will be largely influenced by the role that supporting technologies like Kubernetes will play in orchestrating enterprise applications and infrastructure. Recent ESG research shows that organizations must improve their abilities to support changing container workflows and modalities as the industry works toward more autonomous and intelligent data management capabilities. That is where Kasten by Veeam can help.”

Kasten recently formalized its relationship with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), upgrading to a Platinum Membership and increasing its investment to support a more robust cloud-native community. It continues to contribute to the Kubernetes Storage Special Interest Group and the Data Protection Working Group in Kubernetes to improve storage operations and promote data protection support for the Kubernetes community. The company also continues to maintain Kanister, an open source project that enhances support for and execution of data management tasks for databases and NoSQL systems running in Kubernetes, and support the development of kopia, a fast and secure open-source tool to manage backups.

For more information, download the whitepaper, “5 Kubernetes Backup Best Practices,” or try Kasten for free.

[1] – Gartner Press Release, “Gartner Forecasts Strong Revenue Growth for Global Container Management Software and Services Through 2024,” June 25, 2020. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-06-25-gartner-forecasts-strong-revenue-growth-for-global-co

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Kasten K10 Honored for Improving Kubernetes Data Management

LOS ALTOS, Calif. – December 21, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam® announced today that the K10 Kubernetes data management platform was named a Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award winner, as presented by TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine, for the second year in a row. The 2020 Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award recognizes technologies and vendors that have built cloud solutions that empower businesses small or large to remain active and productive under even the most challenging conditions, minimizing lost business opportunities.

“This past year has been one of tremendous growth for Kasten, culminating in our recent acquisition by Veeam. The acknowledgement of our growth through this award, as well as the innovation we’ve infused into the K10 platform, is a testament to the value we’ve created for the customers and community that depend on Kasten for their backup, disaster recovery and applications mobility needs,” said Niraj Tolia, CEO, Kasten.

Earlier this year, Kasten unveiled the latest version of the K10 platform, v3.0, which introduced new capabilities that enable enterprises to deploy Kasten’s Kubernetes-native backup, disaster recovery, and application migration capabilities across multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments and multi-tenant cloud environments, which are increasingly common in enterprises today. K10 is built with operational simplicity in mind, offering users a quick to deploy and easy to use data management platform that can accommodate complex applications with high degrees of automation and portability so cloud and operations teams can ensure productivity, scalability, and security.

“Recognizing excellence in the advancement of cloud computing technologies, Cloud Computing magazine is proud to announce K10 as a recipient of the Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Kasten is being honored for their achievement in bringing innovation to the market, while leveraging the latest technology trends.”

For more information on Kasten or to try K10 for free, please visit kasten.io

About Kasten
Kasten is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Kasten helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten, an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam, has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

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Increased investment from Kubernetes data management provider to help advance cloud native technology innovation

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Nov. 18, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA Virtual – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that Kasten has upgraded its membership to platinum.

Kasten – recently acquired by Veeam® – is a market leader for Kubernetes data management, making it simple for both developers and operators to run stateful cloud native applications. Kasten’s goal is to simplify backup and data management to deliver the flexibility, reliability, and security needed to accommodate Kubernetes-native workloads as enterprises shift away from monoliths to containers and microservices.

“Kubernetes has become so intrinsically foundational to computing and the innovation that will come along with it,” said Niraj Tolia, President and GM at Kasten. “Kasten and its parent company, Veeam, both recognize the critical importance of supporting and helping guide CNCF and the Kubernetes development communities as we continue to see significant growth in the space. The whole team at Kasten is excited to be engaging even further with the cloud-native ecosystem.”

In addition to developing Kasten K10, its Kubernetes-native data management solutions, Kasten contributes to the Kubernetes Storage Special Interest Group and the Data Protection Working Group in Kubernetes, to help improve storage operations and promote data protection support for the Kubernetes and CNCF communities. Kasten also maintains Kanister, an open source project that helps extend support for and execution of data management tasks for databases and NoSQL systems running in Kubernetes, and supports the development of kopia, a fast and secure open-source tool to manage backups.

“It is really a testament to the relevance of our community when organizations like Kasten increase its meaningful investment in CNCF,” said Priyanka Sharma, general manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “Without these supporters, CNCF would not be where it is today, and we thank Kasten for its increased investment. We look forward to working with Kasten to drive continued technological innovation in the diverse cloud native community.”

Additional Resources

• CNCF Newsletter
• CNCF Twitter
• CNCF Website
• Learn About CNCF Membership
• Learn About the CNCF End User Community

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 500 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io

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K10 Kubernetes data management platform recognized as market leader for innovative, scalable, and efficient Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery, and application mobility

LOS ALTOS, CA – Nov. 12, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced it has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the “GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection.” GigaOm analysts ranked Kasten in the top position among other Kubernetes data protection providers, recognizing K10, its Kubernetes data management platform, for its ease of use, scalability and performance. The report highlighted K10’s focus on cloud-native data protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, underscoring the importance of its deep integration with Kubernetes in delivering industry-leading backup, disaster recovery, and application mobility for both large- and small-scale infrastructures.

“Kasten is a clear leader in the Kubernetes Data Protection market – its level of innovation is ahead of any of its direct competitors. Its Kubernetes-native data management solution, K10, is one of the most advanced and offers unparalleled ease of use, scalability, and efficiency, which is critical for large scale, multi-cloud enterprises,” said Enrico Signoretti, Senior Data Storage Analyst, GigaOm. “Kasten’s recent acquisition by Veeam is another key point of differentiation that puts it above the competition. The combined power of Kasten and Veeam solutions will be a major enabler for enterprises transitioning from monoliths to containers and microservices.”

The GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection was published on the heels of the launch of K10 v3.0, Kasten’s first major platform update since it was acquired by Veeam, the leader in backup solutions that enable Cloud Data Management™. K10 v.3.0 introduced new capabilities that enable enterprises to deploy Kasten’s Kubernetes-native backup, disaster recovery, and application migration capabilities across multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments and multi-tenant cloud environments.

“Cloud-native environments become increasingly complex as enterprises expand Kubernetes deployments to accommodate greater scale and more applications. Data management, protection, and security also become more complex in these scenarios,” said Niraj Tolia, President and General Manager, Kasten. “GigaOm’s latest Kubernetes Data Protection report underscores the importance of flexible, multi-platform, and readily adaptable capabilities to mitigate this complexity. Kasten is proud that K10 has been selected as the top solution for simple, scalable, and secure data management with the flexibility modern enterprises need.”

GigaOm called out the quality of K10’s GUI, the consistency of its APIs, and the handy functionality of its CLI to note its ease of use. The report also highlighted Kasten’s strong focus on security, monitoring, auditing, and authentication with its support for several identity management services, high quality encryption capabilities, and Prometheus integration.

To download a copy of the GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection, please click here — https://www.kasten.io/gigaom-radar-for-kubernetes-data-protection

For more information on K10 or to try it for free, please visit kasten.io

About Kasten
Kasten is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Kasten helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten, an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam, has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

Media Contact:
Dex Polizzi
Lumina Communications for Kasten
646-741-8358
kasten@luminapr.com

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Co-located KubeCon NA event will highlight challenges and solutions in cloud-native data management on Tuesday, November 17, 2020

LOS ALTOS, Calif., – Nov. 2, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kasten by Veeam, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, today announced that it will be hosting Cloud-Native Data Management Day, a co-located community event as part of this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, on November 17, 2020 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.

The event will bring together various stakeholders in the Kubernetes storage, application backup, and mobility community to discuss and share current challenges and solutions in cloud-native data management. Sessions and panels will focus on sharing customer journeys and spotlighting industry expertise across storage, data services, and backup vendors, offering practical knowledge sharing.

Agenda highlights include:

• State of State in the Cloud-Native Ecosystem featuring Erin A. Boyd, CNCF Storage SIG Chair and Software Engineer, Apple
• Beyond Kubernetes Storage: Cloud-Native Data Management featuring Enrico Signoretti, Senior Data Storage Analyst, GigaOm
• Essential Building Blocks of the Cloud-Native Data Stack featuring Danny Allan Chief Technology Officer, Veeam Software; Joe Fernandes, VP and GM, Core Cloud Platforms, Red Hat; Dave Strebel, Azure Global Architect – Open Source Cloud Development, Microsoft; and Gaurav Rishi, Head of Product, Kasten
• People and Cloud-Native Data Management: Change in Roles featuring Demetrius Malbrough, Founder, Data Protection Gumbo, and Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager, Puppet
• Stateful Serverless featuring Anshu Agarwal, CEO and Co-founder, Nimbella
• What Lies Ahead… featuring Madhura Maskasky, Co-founder and VP Product, Platform9 Systems; Madhuri Yechuri, Founder and CEO, Elotl; Sam Ramji, Chief Strategy Officer, DataStax; Suresh Somasundaram, Head of 5G Platform and Cloud Engineering, Mavenir; and Vaibhav Kamra, Chief Technology Officer, Kasten.

Open and closing remarks will be made by Niraj Tolia, President and General Manager, Kasten. Cloud-Native Data Management Day will also include several real world case studies that highlight best practices, tips and advice for cloud-native backup and recovery, multi-cloud data management, and integrating DevSecOps and data management in AWS environments.

To register for Cloud-Native Data Management Day, click here – https://www.accelevents.com/e/CloudNativeDataManagementDay

Pre-registration is required. All registration fees will be donated to Girls Who Code – https://girlswhocode.com/

About Kasten
Kasten is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Kasten helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten, an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam, has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow @kastenhq on Twitter.

Press Contact:
Dex Polizzi
Lumina Communications
646-741-8358
kasten@luminapr.com

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