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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WHO is backing up hybrid cloud (IaaS & PaaS) and HOW are they doing it?
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Welcome to the third installment of our Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023 blog series. Last week, Sam and I discussed some of the research findings from the , which surveyed 1,700 “as a Service” administrators, including those responsible for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for file services and/or databases. Veeam contracts with independent research firms to ask questions on an assortment of topics – including the adoption trends for both IaaS and PaaS scenarios. This week, we’re looking at the responsible roles and their preferred mechanisms for protected production data within IaaS and PaaS platforms:
This research revealed a few key truths, all of which have implications for data protection strategies in a multi- and hybrid-cloud world:
There are a variety of roles that are determining the requirements and strategies for protecting IaaS and PaaS data, but for most organizations, it is still the backup team that is conducting the backups themselves.
Backup teams are managing the backups by 2:1 over the cloud administrators, which is a good sign on the maturity of the production platforms and the related data protection strategies. When the IaaS/PaaS organization is also utilizing BaaS or DRaaS, the service provider conducts the backups in about 25% of cases, with the remainder still 2:1 between the backup team and the cloud team.
Unfortunately, there appears to still be too many organizations that assume that because the IaaS/PaaS platforms might be more durable or resilient, that backup isn’t necessary. They are wrong.
As organizations are faced with lower tolerance for data loss, and as ransomware and other cyberattacks become an all-too-real occurrence, it’s now an imperative that organizations assemble their data protection teams to ensure there’s no gaps in coverage. Veeam’s inherent centralized management offers backup teams the visibility, command and control necessary to standardize data protection strategies. Veeam also has capabilities built natively for IaaS and PaaS, ensuring cloud administrators, engineers and architects have a seamless experience as they manage and monitor the protection of their services.
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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