At KubeCon in Austin, TX, the cloud-native data management company, Kasten, came out of stealth and announced the release of its K10 platform. This new platform uses a novel application-centric approach to enable enterprises to meet business continuity and compliance requirements around stateful container based applications running at scale on public and private Kubernetes deployments. Aside from K10, the company also announced its open source project that is an extensible framework for application-level data management, Kanister.
Kasten is very recently founded and already cranking out products. The founders, Niraj Tolia (CEO) and Vaibhav Kamra (VP of Engineering), previously worked for companies such as Maginatics, Dell EMC, HPE, and Microsoft. The company is also backed by well-known Silicon Valley angels and executives from Google, Amazon and Facebook.
Cloud-native applications and containers are becoming increasing used as enterprises realize the benefits. While running stateless applications is becoming more common there are still some issues that need to be address around data management, satisfying business continuity, and compliance requirements. These issues stem form two primary causes: data management tools are VM-focused and the proper data lifecycle management is at odds with most implementations of the DevOps model in the enterprise. This means operators don’t have the tools or visibility that they need and gets worse at scale.
Kasten is out of stealth to address the above issues. As stated above, K10 is a application-centric data management platform. K10 is all about balance, from the application and throughout the infrastructure. It is beneficial to both operators and developers balancing the needs of both. Operators are able to control data protection and mobility of the entire application stack while developers can focus on core application logic. The company goes on to state that their platform will give enterprises the freedom to fully adopt and reap the benefits of cloud-native platforms regardless of the type of workload.
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Kasten K10 is available now.
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