We are excited to announce the release of Kasten K10 version 6.0, the latest and most advanced version of our industry-leading platform that provides enterprise-grade Kubernetes data protection and application mobility. This release helps customers scale their cloud native data protection efficiently. Kubernetes deployments are growing at an unprecedented rate. Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production. However, today’s market conditions are scarred with financial uncertainty and a shortage of cloud native skills. Therefore, you must ensure operational efficiencies are in place to unleash the full potential of your cloud native environments while protecting your data. Additionally, security remains an imperative as organizations focus on keeping their businesses running. With this release, we also continue to innovate in this growing ecosystem, so that you can take advantage of the best-of-breed inn...
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It’s extremely important for businesses to protect their data against threats such as ransomware, malware and insider threats, because as history shows, these threats are continuing to happen. Viruses are attacking businesses more frequently and with more advanced functionality, attaching itself to critical data. This is something we hear and read about all the time, with no company being immune to a cyberattack and data deletion. Luckily, technology today continues to innovate and evolve to combat these threats and ensure your data is available for every scenario.
Veeam and NetApp have a long history of partnership that has allowed customers to leverage powerful storage with Modern Data Protection. Whether it be leveraging NetApp’s snapshots for quick backup and restores, utilizing E-Series for backup storage or utilizing S3 Object Lock with StorageGRID, NetApp gives you options when it comes to protecting your data. Since ransomware is top-of-mind for many IT professionals, lets discuss how Veeam and NetApp can maintain business continuity with their joint solution.
Turnin’ it up with immutability
Immutability is a word that we have been hearing A LOT lately. For some, this may be a new term, but for others they probably have a good idea what it means and how to implement it. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it means once data is created, it can’t be modified or deleted. When using immutability with backup storage, you can set a time period on how long you want data to remain unchanged, safe from being modified or deleted. The thought is, when setting up immutability on your backup storage to protect your data, if a ransomware attack or deletion occurred, this data would have been left unchanged and safe to restore. To achieve this with Veeam Backup & Replication, you can use a supported Linux distribution as a simple repository on premises or it can be utilized from end to end with the Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR).
The above diagram shows how you can implement the Scale-out Backup Repository with NetApp. Within this diagram, there are two tiers, the Performance Tier, (used for fast access to data), and the Capacity Tier (long-term storage). The Performance Tier is set up as Linux Hardened Repository with NetApp E-Series Storage. The Hardened Linux Repository allows you to keep data stored immutable, allowing you to keep the backup files stored safe from being modified or deleted. The Hardened Repository with a compliant configuration meets the requirements for non-rewritable, non-erasable storage as specified by SEC 17a-4(f), FINRA 4511(c), and CFTC 1.31 (c)-(d) regulations.
The Capacity Tier is where you offload backup files for long-term retention. Setting this tier up with the NetApp StorageGRID with S3 Compatible Object Lock provides the ability to utilize immutability in the Capacity Tier, keeping backup files safe from start to end. This allows you to utilize software-defined storage that can be geo-distributed with S3 compatible object capabilities. StorageGRID helps comply with regulations with different features that allow for write once read many (WORM) retention, access control policies, encryption and audit trails.
Veeam & NetApp partner together to deliver the ultimate protection!
Veeam doesn’t prevent ransomware, but it can come in handy when trying to restore from a ransomware attack. Ransomware is a threat for every business, and a proper strategy to not only prevent but also to recover from an incident is important. Advanced features brought to you by the Veeam and NetApp partnership can help keep your data safe and available for any scenario. For more information about this offering, tune into the “How Veeam and NetApp provide complete data availability” on-demand webinar.
For those of us who have been in the business of backing up data for a while, we’re used to making copies of data on different types of media. I won’t date myself by mentioning reel-to-reel tapes, but the journey started with tape and then backing up data to block/file-based disk storage came along. More recently, a new kid on the block has become a popular destination for backed up data, object storage. Veeam started to use object storage as a target when we released Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 in January 2019 by introducing our use of AWS S3 compliant object storage via the Capacity Tier. A year later, we launched Veeam Backup & Replication v10 which featured support for object locking to provide data immutability for object storage. Immutability provides protection from ransomware attacks by locking the objects which prevents them from being modified or deleted by malicious software or humans. Today, Veeam Backup & Replication is protecting hundreds of petab...
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Before Veeam Backup & Replication v11, the product used SQL Server to create and store its configuration database. It has always been possible to use SQL Server Express to store a Veeam Backup & Replication, however, this version of SQL Server had some critical limitations. In the 2022 version of SQL Server Express, the most relevant limitations were: Use of one socket or four cores Use of only 1.4GB per instance 10GB limit for databases In an environment of 500 machines or fewer, these limitations may not have an impact, but if you have a large backup environment, you had to migrate to one of the paid SQL Server versions to avoid these limitations. You can check the limits for each version of SQL Server 2022 by clicking this link . For V12 and with scalability, performance and licensing cost in mind, Veeam introduced the possibility of using PostgreSQL as a configuration database. PostgreSQL is a relational database management system that’s been used for over 35 years...
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