As the leading Kubernetes backup and recovery solution, Kasten K10 by Veeam provides the granular identity and access management controls required to secure your K10 environment and easily provide users with the access their roles require. Read more

Since version 4.0.13 (Release Date: 2021-09-28), Kasten by Veeam has supported using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to protect Kasten K10 encryption keys. This provides an alternative to the passphrase Passkey, which is used by default to protect the master key and encryption key for encrypting snapshots exported to external locations such as S3 or NFS. Read more

When exporting snapshots to an external location such as an S3 Bucket or NFS file store, you might be concerned about the security of your backups in that location. If the S3 bucket or file storage were to be compromised, would the attacker be able to access sensitive data? The answer to this is easy: no. Read more

Recently, I set out to find an easy way for developers to deploy Kasten K10 and experience the value of the solution, without having to deploy public cloud managed Kubernetes environments or rely on virtual environments. Read more

When running your application in a production environment, you may want to specify which components your application can communicate with as well as which components can communicate with your application. Read more

Persistent Volumes (PVs) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) are the underpinnings of Kubernetes persistent storage, especially with respect to the growing collection of stateful workloads being containerized and deployed with Kubernetes. Read more

IT departments have many choices for infrastructure and application deployment. Organizations choose containers for their portability, scalability and deployment speed, among other benefits. Adopting a cloud-native approach offers additional benefits such as increased agility, lower CAPEX costs, and improved scalability and reliability. Read more

In 2017, VMware simplified this choice by announcing a strategic alliance with AWS, offering the ability to run existing VM workloads on a SaaS based platform while also taking advantage of AWS services.

Today you can choose from a plethora of VMware-based public cloud offerings including Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Whether you prefer Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions or Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS), you can still leverage your investments in on-premises VMware products. Read more

In this article, I will show that Portworx Metro Disaster Recovery (DR) based on storage replication may look like an appealing option for meeting this requirement, but it’s not the best choice. It will lead you to performance issues, increase costs and complexity, and lead to a more fragile architecture. Read more

Kasten K10 by Veeam backs up your Kubernetes applications by capturing the content of your namespace as a single unit. Read more