Catalogic Software, a leading provider
of smart data protection and copy data management solutions, announced
its SaaS platform,
CloudCasa, is now
generally available through the
SUSE
Partner Software Catalog as a SUSE Rancher Ready application, and
through the SUSE Rancher Apps & Marketplace. In addition, with many
Kubernetes applications using cloud databases services, CloudCasa is expanding
its scope to support application-consistent data protection for
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
CloudCasa is a simple,
scalable, cloud-native platform that delivers state-of-the-art data protection
and disaster recovery. Platform and location agnostic, CloudCasa protects and
supports all leading Kubernetes distributions and managed services. The Helm
chart for CloudCasa is now available for deployment in the partner section of
the SUSE Rancher Apps & Marketplace dashboard, enabling CloudCasa to
protect applications on clusters managed by SUSE Rancher. The Helm chart for
CloudCasa orchestrates installation of the CloudCasa backup agent and
connection to the CloudCasa data protection service.
"While persistent data
storage platforms for containerized environments continue to gain momentum,
many organizations are adopting cloud database services. Recognizing that
enterprises have multiple options for persistent data storage for their cloud
applications, CloudCasa from Catalogic Software added cloud database support
starting with Amazon RDS to its Kubernetes data protection service - addressing
both Kubernetes and RDS support in a single service," said Krista
Macomber, Senior Analyst, Evaluator Group. "Kubernetes marketplaces and
management platforms are a convenient place for developers to find and deploy
storage and backup services, so it is good to see CloudCasa available in the
SUSE Rancher management platform."
CloudCasa supports cloud
databases, such as Amazon RDS, to ensure application-consistent backups of data
outside of Kubernetes. Cloud and serverless databases account for a
large portion of persistent data for applications running on Kubernetes and
require protection along with other application data. Developers' familiarity
with Amazon RDS makes it a popular choice for use with managed Kubernetes
services.
"The management of
Kubernetes' deployments is dominated by developers and DevOps engineers who are
not familiar with data protection solutions. We are pleased to have our
CloudCasa agent available in SUSE Rancher Apps & Marketplace, making it
easy to install and use," said Sathya Sankaran, COO, Catalogic Software.
"Additionally, as our support for Amazon RDS demonstrates, Catalogic's goal is
to have CloudCasa do all the hard work for DevOps to backup and protect
multi-cloud, multi-cluster, Kubernetes applications and cloud databases."
The free service tier for
CloudCasa includes backups of Kubernetes resource data and snapshot management
for Kubernetes persistent volumes. It permits an unlimited number of clusters
and worker nodes per user or organization, and up to 30 days of backup data
retention. Amazon RDS protection, including snapshot management and
multi-region copies, will be available to users of the free tier at the end of
March. CloudCasa will be available in additional public cloud marketplaces in
Q2 including those for DigitalOcean, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware
Tanzu.