Kasten by
Veeam, the market leader for
Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, announced today that it achieved two
significant growth milestones to start 2021-500% growth year-over-year (YoY)
for Q4 2020 in both revenue and customers. This achievement concludes a
momentous year for Kasten in which
it was acquired by Veeam, the leader in Backup
solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, and drove record adoption for
its
Kubernetes data management platform.
"2020
introduced countless challenges that will have a lasting impact on us
personally and professionally. But it also showed us how important Kasten is in
the fabric of the industry and communities it's part of," said Niraj Tolia,
President and General Manager, Kasten. "We're excited to kick off 2021 on a
high note, having achieved several prestigious industry awards and recognition as a Leader and Outperformer in
the GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Data Protection in the last year. We are
continuing this momentum alongside Veeam to address the data management needs
of modern enterprises that rely on technologies that support a strong
Kubernetes ecosystem, like the Kasten data management platform."
Gartner
predicts that by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running
containerized applications in production, up from less than 30% today. Kasten
currently protects millions of containers in production and can scale to
protect massive multi-cluster deployments with multiple hundreds of nodes in
enterprise environments. The company continues to see significant interest in
container-specific data management solutions from high-performance enterprise
segments like banking and the financial sector, 5G, and edge computing. For
industries like these that rely heavily on Kubernetes, Kasten released two
major commercial updates to its platform in the past year, v2.5 and v3.0, as well as countless
capabilities and features that accommodate multi-tenant cloud environments,
automate data migration, and deliver scalable backup, disaster recovery and
application mobility across enterprise Kubernetes deployments.
"Kasten
has been instrumental in our approach to providing new strategies for
enterprise grade data protection to our customers with containers and
microservices in our new private cloud offering. Leveraging Kasten, Visma now
provides a secure Kubernetes-native data management BaaS (backup as a service)
platform to ensure SLAs are met for customers with critical applications and
strict backup/restore and disaster recovery requirements to protect against
accidental data loss, issues from ransomware, or a catastrophic event," said
Karim Blidi, System Manager, Visma.
The
rapidly changing needs of digital enterprises alongside accelerated Kubernetes
adoption is fueling significant demand for Kubernetes-native data management
solutions. As a result, Kasten is quickly growing, tripling its headcount as it
expands in the Americas and internationally across EMEA. Kasten's expansion has
been aided by its acquisition by Veeam, enabling the company to increase
R&D, promote sales efforts, and enhance customer support across
geographies, industries, and markets as they embrace future-ready
architectures.
"The
world of enterprise data protection is quickly changing-it's on the cusp of a
major evolution," said Christophe Bertrand, Senior Analyst, ESG. "As businesses
transition from on-prem infrastructure and legacy models for backup, disaster
recovery, and mobility to hybrid or cloud-centric models, our research shows
that the use of data to support digital transformation will emphasize the role
of intelligent data management and protection in enterprise IT operations. The
data management ecosystem will be largely influenced by the role that
supporting technologies like Kubernetes will play in orchestrating enterprise
applications and infrastructure. Recent ESG research shows that organizations
must improve their abilities to support changing container workflows and
modalities as the industry works toward more autonomous and intelligent data
management capabilities. That is where Kasten by Veeam can help."
Kasten
recently formalized its relationship with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
(CNCF), upgrading to a Platinum
Membership
and increasing its investment to support a more robust cloud-native community.
It continues to contribute to the Kubernetes Storage Special
Interest Group and the Data Protection Working Group in Kubernetes to improve
storage operations and promote data protection support for the Kubernetes
community. The company also continues to maintain Kanister, an open source project that enhances support for and execution
of data management tasks for databases and NoSQL systems running in Kubernetes,
and support the development of kopia, a fast and secure
open-source tool to manage backups.
For
more information, download the whitepaper, "5 Kubernetes Backup Best
Practices,"
or try Kasten for free.