New Kasten K10 V5.5 to simplify Kubernetes data protection

The NEW Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5 Kubernetes data management platform has been released by Kasten by Veeam®, a provider of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Kubernetes applications are rapidly expanding. However, operations teams with the necessary skill set to meet these demands are unable to keep up, making scaling operations simplicity imperative. The latest release of Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5, purpose-built for Kubernetes, bridges this skills gap by introducing powerful new capabilities around Autonomous Operations and Cloud Native Expansion.

These advancements will address the challenges historically found in Kubernetes around operational complexity at scale, especially due to the diversity of deployment environments, as a complement to Veeam’s suite of modern data protection and recovery solutions for protecting all data assets across virtual, cloud-native, SaaS, Kubernetes, and physical workloads.

“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 complication for a workforce that is already understaffed. At the same time, the percentage of enterprises investing in Kubernetes and containerization in production continues to rise, necessitating organizations optimizing and de-risking their large Kubernetes investments. Enabling intelligence and automation while broadening technology partnerships and business agreements ensures enterprises have broad access to the most recent advancements in a range of technologies in the backup and recovery process for scaling simplicity.

New capabilities of Kasten K10 V5.5 include:

• Intelligent Policies: Kasten K10 has intelligent decision-making capabilities that simplify data protection at scale. Users can now specify a backup window based on the application’s non-peak usage hours. Kasten K10 will not only respect backup windows, but will also automate the underlying backup job sequencing. When multiple policies are scheduled, this optimizes the utilization of the underlying infrastructure and handles conflict resolution automatically.

• Boosted ease of deployment and scale: Kasten K10 simplifies onboarding even further by including an intuitive graphical wizard for generating the most appropriate install manifests, which can be visualized and repeated for multiple installs. Kasten K10 also includes IPv6 support to address IP exhaustion issues and address growing edge deployments, as well as support for Amazon EKS with IPv6 inter-Pod communication and GitOps workflow integrations for efficient app deployment and 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.