CloudCasa announced a new service offering to help provide multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes backup management to Velero. To find out more, VMblog spoke with Bob Adair, product manager for CloudCasa by Catalogic.  

VMblog: Tell us about your latest offering, CloudCasa for Velero?

Bob Adair:  Velero is the most popular open source Kubernetes backup tool with over 50 million downloads. It's used by thousands of organizations for protecting their Kubernetes workloads. Our new CloudCasa for Velero offering has been designed to embrace that large pool of users, to support their ability to manage their Velero installations at scale and provide them with support. The new CloudCasa service offering adds multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes backup management capabilities to Velero, including centralized configuration, monitoring and advanced cloud recovery, all from the same CloudCasa user interface.

VMblog:  What are the advantages of this offering for Velero users?

Adair:  CloudCasa for Velero gives enterprises and service providers the ability to scale their business with multi-cluster management for Velero backups, across all Kubernetes distributions and across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. From a single console, DevOps, IT Operations, and platform engineers can now manage, monitor and report on their Velero-based backups and perform guided recoveries. Previously they would have to manage Velero installations on a cluster-by-cluster basis from a command line.

VMblog:  How can Velero users access this new SaaS offering?

Adair:  Velero users can simply subscribe to the CloudCasa service and in minutes catalog their existing setup for centralized management. Velero users do not need to migrate away from Velero or lose any of their current backups, backup definitions, schedules, or integrations. The service is designed to deliver zero disruption, SaaS management of Velero with no vendor lock-in.

VMblog: Are you adding CloudCasa for Velero to your freemium pricing model?

Adair:  Yes, we are. All CloudCasa pricing plans, including our Free plan, provide management of Velero installations for up to 15 worker nodes. Following on from that, a supported plan is available for as little as $199/month that includes live chat support to help users. Management of Velero can be added to existing CloudCasa accounts.

VMblog: Tell us more about what it means to fully embrace Velero vs. compete against it.

Adair:  In the world of cloud-native and Kubernetes, open source tools are the incumbent solutions, and Velero is clearly popular and often the default choice for Kubernetes backup. Velero is functionally on par with other backup solutions in terms of protecting Kubernetes workloads, but usability and scalability remain a challenge. This becomes even more important if you combine multi-clusters with a multi-cloud strategy, where managing Velero backups becomes even more tricky and time consuming. CloudCasa for Velero fills these gaps with its user interface, monitoring and alerting, and guided recoveries, which are all key requirements of Velero users that previously were not addressed. The team at CloudCasa is also contributing to the Velero open source community.

VMblog: Are you looking forward to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023?

Adair:  Yes, we are! CloudCasa is a CNCF member and a sponsor of KubeCon. CloudCasa for Velero will be demonstrated at booth S14 at the RAI in Amsterdam April 19-21.

We look forward to speaking with end-users, journalists, and other vendors to see what's trending and discuss evolving best practices and solutions for Kubernetes application resilience. Please contact us to arrange a meeting with us at KubeCon or sign up for the CloudCasa KubeCon promotion. Or just drop by booth S14 to get a demonstration and some cool CloudCasa swag!

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