Kasten K10 V5.5 – Autonomous Operations, Scaling Simplicity

Kasten by Veeam announced the release of Kasten K10 V5.5, the latest release of its Kubernetes data management platform, introducing capabilities around Autonomous Operations and Cloud Native Expansion. The new release complements the suite of data protection and recovery solutions offered by Veeam that protects data assets across virtual, cloud-native, SaaS, Kubernetes, and physical workloads.

Kasten by Veeam announced the release of Kasten K10 V5.5, the latest release of its Kubernetes data management platform, introducing capabilities around Autonomous Operations and Cloud Native Expansion. The new release complements the suite of data protection and recovery solutions offered by Veeam that protects data assets across virtual, cloud-native, SaaS, Kubernetes, and physical workloads.

Backing up and protecting Kubernetes environments on top of designing and maintaining cloud-native deployments is a compounding issue for understaffed workforces. Still, 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.

Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product and Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam, said:

“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. 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.”

New capabilities of Kasten K10 V5.5

• Intelligent Policies: Kasten K10 allows users to factor in 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 V5.5 eases 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 addresses 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: The new release ensures customers can access the most up-to-date advancements across increasing workload types, geographic regions, storage types, and security. Support for RedHat OpenShift Virtualization enabling users to run and manage Virtual Machine (VM) and container workloads side by side on Red Hat OpenShift. Kasten K10 also 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).

According to the Kasten blog, the benefits of Intelligent Policies span across multiple teams in an enterprise, including:

• Development: Developers can continue to focus on app development while influencing and enabling backup policies with capabilities such as declarative policies.
• Operations: Platform Ops teams can optimize resources and automate data protection tasks across distributed Kubernetes clusters with backup windows and job staggering.
• Compliance: In the current cybercrime environment, such as ransomware, enterprise compliance and security teams gain visibility and peace of mind on data protection and coverage.

Veeam’s Danny Allan, CTO and SVP of Product Strategy, said:

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

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