Key Takeaways:
- Hybrid Cloud + Kubernetes Protection. Combining Veeam Kasten with Red Hat OpenShift delivers enterprise-grade backup, recovery, and mobility across VMs, containers, and cloud-native workloads.
- Future‑Proof Data Resilience. Immutable backups, policy-driven automation, and air-gapped storage defend against ransomware, human error, and compliance failures.
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Unified Platform for Modern Workloads. Veeam Kasten extends data protection to KubeVirt VMs running within and alongside OpenShift clusters, ensuring consistent backup and recovery for both VMs and containers across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Compliance & Governance Ready. Integrated monitoring, reporting, and retention policies help meet regulatory requirements without adding complexity.
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Scalable & Flexible. Supports rapid growth, application portability, and disaster recovery for both on‑prem and cloud-native applications.
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Business Continuity by Design. The partnership between Veeam and Red Hat ensures resilience is built into infrastructure from the start, not added as an afterthought.
Hybrid and cloud-native approaches are no longer experimental; they’re foundational. In fact, 73% of organizations already run a hybrid cloud strategy, and that number keeps climbing as businesses look for the flexibility to optimize cost, performance, and resilience. As adoption increases, it’s fundamental to embrace technologies that deliver unified, scalable, and secure protection for both virtualized and containerized workloads.
That’s the central message of our recent webinar, “Resilient by Design: Protecting Your Hybrid and Cloud-Native Workloads.” This session brings together Veeam Kasten and Red Hat OpenShift to share a blueprint for building resilience into modernization strategies without compromise.
The distinguishing characteristic of this webinar lies in its integration of comprehensive technical expertise with practical narratives. The speakers don’t just present slides; rather, they deliver relevant anecdotes, real-world use cases, and key insights, making content both informative and engaging.
Why Data Resilience Is a Business Imperative
The acceleration of cloud adoption and Kubernetes deployments transforms how organizations build and run applications. However, the challenges of this shift are clear:
- Virtual machines still power mission-critical workloads
- Containers drive speed, scalability, and cloud-native innovation
- Hybrid environments span on-premises, public cloud, and edge locations
Without a unified protection strategy, businesses risk downtime, data loss, compliance failures, and forfeiture of customer trust. This challenge is where the collaboration between Veeam and Red Hat delivers unique value:
- Red Hat OpenShift provides a powerful hybrid platform where VMs and containers run side by side
- Veeam Kasten provides comprehensive protection, recovery, and mobility for workloads everywhere OpenShift runs
Together, they demonstrate the value of designing and building in resilience from the start.
4 Central Pillars of Resilience by Design
The session explores four central pillars of resilient design:
1. Unified Protection for Hybrid Workloads
Enterprises today can’t afford silos. VMs, containers, and cloud-native apps must be managed and protected under a single pane of glass.
As a Kubernetes-native application, Veeam Kasten integrates seamlessly with all editions of Red Hat OpenShift to ensure:
- Consistent protection across virtualized and containerized apps
- Centralized visibility into hybrid workloads
- Simplified recovery and mobility when moving workloads across environments
As one speaker notes, “Resilience is no longer about choosing between VMs or Kubernetes. It’s about protecting both, together.”
2. Operationalizing Resilience
Backups alone aren’t enough. True resilience comes from automation, policy, and integration with DevOps workflows.
Veeam Kasten enables this through:
- Application-aware backups that understand Kubernetes objects and namespaces
- Role-based access control (RBAC) to align IT and DevOps responsibilities
- GitOps-ready configurations that embed resilience into CI/CD pipelines
One anecdote compares it to setting a thermostat: once configured, resilience runs quietly in the background until you need it. Always reliable, never intrusive.
3. Cloud Native Scale with Enterprise-Grade Security
Expanding Kubernetes clusters can introduce unique challenges, such as increased data distribution, adherence to regulatory requirements, and achieving RTO/RPO targets across environments.
Veeam Kasten scales without sacrificing security, with features like:
- Immutable, air-gapped backups to defend against ransomware
- Compliance-ready audit trails and policy enforcement
- Disaster recovery orchestration across hybrid and multi-cloud estates
This means you don’t have to try to prioritize agility, security, or governance over each other. With the right foundation, it’s realistic to accomplish these objectives all at once.
4. Red Hat + Veeam: A Strategic Alliance
The common thread across all of this hybrid cloud goodness is founded in the strength of the partnership. Red Hat and Veeam are not only compatible, but they also demonstrate a high level of strategic alignment.
- OpenShift simplifies hybrid application modernization and VM migrations
- Veeam Kasten guarantees that data stays safe, portable, and recoverable across a diverse hybrid cloud estate
The solution enables enterprises to modernize according to their preferred timeline, supporting virtual machines currently and facilitating the transition to containers in the future, while maintaining an acceptable risk profile for the business.
Why This Matters for You
If you oversee cloud strategy, IT operations, or modernization initiatives, this webinar offers not only valuable information but also practical guidance.
- For IT leaders, it shows how to align modernization projects with business continuity goals
- For DevOps teams, it demonstrates how resilience fits into everyday workflows without slowing innovation
- For business strategists, it proves that resilience is a growth enabler, not just an insurance policy
If your organization already runs OpenShift, or in the evaluation process, the insights here help you operationalize resilience from day one.
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Final Thoughts: Resilience Built-In, not Bolted On
Downtime is expensive. Data loss is catastrophic. But resilience needn’t be a scramble to recover. It can be designed into your infrastructure from the beginning.
That’s the message of “Resilient by Design.” With the combined strength of Veeam Kasten and Red Hat OpenShift, organizations can modernize confidently, protect critical workloads everywhere, and build a foundation for future growth.
In an era where 73% of enterprises already run hybrid strategies, the time to operationalize resilience is now.