Red Hat is modernizing virtualization across every environment. Veeam Kasten ensures your data is protected every step of the way.
Legacy Virtualization is No Longer Enough
The virtualization market is undergoing a monumental shift with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. For years, enterprise virtualization meant centralized, monolithic platforms, but those days are numbered. Faced with rising costs, inflexible architectures, and the growing need to support cloud-native innovation, IT leaders are reevaluating some long-held assumptions, including that:
- Virtual machines (VMs) must live on proprietary hypervisors
- Containers and VMs require separate platforms
- Modernization can’t happen without disrupting existing workloads
Increasingly, organizations are turning to modern, open platforms that unify VMs and containers under one control plane and give them the freedom to run their workloads anywhere.
Red Hat is meeting this moment by expanding OpenShift Virtualization across public clouds and giving organizations a clear, scalable path to hybrid operations. However, infrastructure is only one side of the modernization coin. Without having equally modern, resilient data protection, businesses risk trading one set of problems for another.
Veeam Kasten delivers resilience for Red Hat OpenShift that’s made for scale and ready for every workload, whether containerized or virtualized.
Virtualization Isn’t Dead, It’s Decentralized
VMs still power critical workloads in nearly every enterprise, but how and where those VMs are deployed is shifting dramatically.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, built on KubeVirt, enables customers to run VMs and containers side-by-side within OpenShift. With native availability across major public cloud providers, the promise of run-anywhere virtualization is what makes OpenShift a unifying layer in modern compute.
But, there’s a catch. With more environments comes more complexity, more fragmentation, and more pressure to maintain consistency, continuity, and control.
That’s where Veeam Kasten comes in.
Migration Without Protection is Rebranded Risk
Red Hat’s expanded ecosystem, including its Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), helps customers move off of legacy hypervisors. However, while MTV helps move the compute, it doesn’t protect the data. Data loss during transition isn’t just costly, it also causes reputational, operational, and compliance headaches.
Plainly stated, modern virtualization must be planned and implemented in parallel with modern data protection best practices like:
- Immutable backups
- Cross-cluster portability
- Policy-based automation
- Resilient recovery at an enterprise scale
Without modern safeguards, the flexibility to move workloads could become a liability. What runs fine in one environment could fail, break, or disappear entirely when it’s time to restore or migrate.
Veeam Kasten: Purpose-Built for Every Environment
Veeam Kasten is our modern data protection solution for Kubernetes and beyond. It extends Veeam’s trusted legacy into the world of cloud-native infrastructure by offering enterprise-grade protection not just for Kubernetes, but for VMs too. As organizations evolve toward platforms like Red Hat OpenShift that run VMs and containers side-by-side, Veeam Kasten meets customers where they are to deliver the same resilience, simplicity, and operational confidence that Veeam has brought to millions of workloads around the world. This is the same Veeam you know and trust, reimagined for modern virtualization.
Veeam Kasten is the only Kubernetes-native enterprise-ready solution that’s designed from the ground up to protect workloads across OpenShift containers, VMs, hybrid clouds, edge deployments, and everything in between.
As Red Hat OpenShift extends virtualization capabilities across environments, Veeam Kasten scales with it to provide consistent data resilience no matter where your workloads land.
Here’s how it happens:
- Certified OpenShift Operator: Veeam Kasten installs quickly and natively from the OpenShift Console to deliver seamless integration, automated app discovery, and policy-driven protection.
- Unified protection for VMs and containers
Back up and restore VMs and Kubernetes applications that run on OpenShift and use the VM dashboard for cluster-wide visibility into KubeVirt VM protection status. - Ransomware-resilient architecture
Air-gapped and immutable backups, role-based access control (RBAC), and end-to-end encryption means no compromise on compliance, security, or control. - Seamless migration confidence
Pair MTV with Veeam Kasten for protection before, during, and after migrations. Validate data integrity, restore what matters, and keep modernization on track. - Transform sets for app refactoring: Streamline workload migration and modernization by refactoring applications across environments without disrupting operations or requiring major code changes.
- Granular file-level recovery (FLR)
Restore individual files from within VMs without needing to recover entire workloads. This is ideal for fast, targeted recoveries in VM-based environments where downtime and data sprawl can cripple productivity. - Built-in automation for GitOps and CI/CD
Integrate data protection workflows into your pipeline and empower DevSecOps without creating new operational burden. - Multi-cloud and edge ready
Protect workloads on Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), on-premises OpenShift, or the network edge. Hybrid isn’t the future, it’s right now.
This Matters Now More Than Ever
Red Hat is giving enterprises an off-ramp from vendor lock-in and license headaches. OpenShift Virtualization is now the most flexible way to run VMs on any cloud, at any scale, with full container integration.
While compute has become platform-agnostic, traditional data protection hasn’t kept up. Most legacy backup tools:
- Don’t understand Kubernetes
- Treat VMs and containers as separate silos
- Can’t scale across multi-cloud environments
- Lack granular restore capabilities and force full workload restores for minor issues
- Rely on manual recovery that slows down modernization
Veeam Kasten fixes all of that.
We bring the same agility to your data protection strategy that OpenShift brings to your infrastructure. That’s what makes us the modern resilience layer for modern virtualization.
The Future of Virtualization is Hybrid. The Future of Protection is Kasten.
The market is in a period of transition, and Red Hat is leading with an open, scalable platform that spans compute environments. Veeam Kasten is the data protection solution that makes this evolution safe, scalable, and successful.
If you’re looking for alternatives for your VMs, building hybrid environments, or just starting your Kubernetes journey, Veeam Kasten ensures your data is secure, compliant, recoverable, and portable anywhere OpenShift runs.
In a world where workloads move freely, your data protection strategy should too.
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