Kasten K10 V6.

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Data Sheet

Kasten K10
#1 Kubernetes Data Protection
Kasten K10 Unique Value
Kasten K10 provides Kubernetes native data

protection. It enables backup and restore, Kubernetes Native

• Built for Kubernetes, with
disaster recovery, and application mobility for Kubernetes
Kubernetes applications. • Multi-cloud and multi-cluster
Ease of Use
• Intuitive user interface and
cloud native APIs
Applications using microservices architectures and containers • Easy to install and manage

have quickly gained traction in the enterprise. Kubernetes has Security Everywhere
• Enterprise-grade ransomware
emerged as the mainstream container orchestration platform. protection
• Support for Kubernetes-native
While Kubernetes provides high availability and scalability RBAC, Auth N/Z, encryption
of application services, these benefits do not extend with KMS

to application data. This makes backup of Kubernetes Full Ecosystem Support

• S upport for any cloud and
applications and data a critical priority. Kasten K10 by Veeam
Kubernetes distribution
was designed to protect your Kubernetes applications • Incorporates any application
and data.

Kasten K10 Use Cases

Backup & Restore Disaster Recovery Application Mobility

Protect your cloud native Manage how backups are Move applications between
applications and business- replicated off-site to meet clouds and on-premises for
critical data business and regulatory test/dev, load balancing, data
requirements
management and upgrades

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Why Kasten K10: Kubernetes Native Data Protection

Kasten K10 is a Kubernetes native data protection platform that provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-
use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster recovery and application mobility of Kubernetes
applications. Kasten K10’s application-centric approach and deep integrations provide teams with freedom of
infrastructure choice and maximum operational simplicity.

• Application Centricity: Kasten K10 automatically scans the environment, discovering all applications and
associated artifacts to protect, as well as any changes to the environment. Kasten K10 is ideal for managing multi-
cloud and multi-cluster deployments.
• Policy-Driven Management: Automated policies are a key Kasten K10 differentiator, enabling users to set up
custom and default policies to meet their backup management needs. Policies provide automated enforcement
to help meet SLAs.
• Freedom of Choice: Kasten’s ecosystem focus enables seamless support for storage and data services within
and across clusters, regions and cloud, neatly abstracting infrastructure complexity.
• Observability: An intuitive UI and feature-rich dashboard enables users to easily manage the data protection
status of all applications. Out-of-the-box dashboards, metrics and alerts provide deep insights into the
environment.
• Enhanced Extensibility: Kasten K10 minimizes time for new deployments by enabling teams to select the
best tools available for a task. The solution easily integrates with tools of choice in operational Kubernetes
environments, such as external data services, and monitoring and alerting tools.

How Kasten K10 Works

Kasten K10 provides

Kubernetes native data
Discover Protect Restore protection. It enables backup
Automated Secure your Quickly and and restore, disaster recovery,
discovery of Kubernetes effectively restore
your Kubernetes and application mobility for
your Kubernetes application
application and data application and data Kubernetes applications.

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Spotlight: New in Kasten K10 V6.0

Kasten K10 V6.0 was designed to help customers scale their cloud native data protection efficiently, and to protect
their applications and data against ransomware attacks. Kasten K10 V6.0 leverages cloud native integrations.
Features include:
•E
 nterprise-grade ransomware protection, including suspicious activity detection
capabilities, immutable backups and instant recovery.
•S
 calability and efficiency improvements including application fingerprinting,
metadata transformation, more automation and improved visibility.
•A
 dditional cloud native integrations that facilitate new workloads and storage types,
hybrid deployments and increased security.

Ransomware Protection Scalability & Efficiency Cloud Native Integrations

• Integrations with intelligent • Veeam Data Platform integration • Additional Workload Types
threat detection solutions • Application Fingerprinting • Kubernetes 1.26
• AWS Secrets Manager support • Library of metadata transformations • Red Hat OCP 4.12
for Kasten K10 DR • Streamlined VM restore workflow for • New blueprint for Amazon RDS
• Policy presets enforcement KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization • Hybrid Environments
• Google Anthos
with Kyverno • Direct Deployment to EKS clusters
• Restore targets for Tanzu Backups
• Multi-Cluster License Management
• Cisco Hybrid Cloud validation with
Red Hat OpenShift
• Additional Storage Options
• NetApp ONTAP S3
• Dell-EMC ECS S3

Kasten K10 Ecosystem

Kasten K10 integrates with all Kubernetes technologies you use

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Kasten K10 Top Features and Benefits

Category Features Benefits

Built for Kubernetes Coordinated Operations Understands complex Cloud Native application design
Kasten K10 is purpose- patterns to intra-stack dependencies by quiescing/shutting
built for Kubernetes down and restarting services in appropriate order.
and is constructed
using cloud native Application-Centric Captures the entire application stack with a consistent
architectural principles. application-to-infrastructure view

State-of-the-Art Source-side deduplication tailored for cloud native

De-dupe application data access

Security Everywhere Kubernetes-Native RBAC Ensures appropriate permissions for level of access needed
Kasten K10 provides (e.g. admin vs. user)
comprehensive end-
to-end security via Encryption End-to-end encryption of application/ configuration/ data
enterprise-grade and associated metadata artifacts in flight and at rest
features.
Ransomware Protection Backup data immutability to keep recovery path tamper-
proof and open to thwart ransomware

Ease of Use Auto-Discovery Automatically scans the environment upon deployment and
Kasten K10 is quick to identifies all applications requiring protection
deploy and easy to use
via a state-of-the-art Policy-Driven Supports automated enforcement of protection policies to
management interface support SLAs and compliance needs
or a cloud native API.
It has the versatility to Extensibility Uses blueprints from the open-source Kanister framework to
accommodate complex add support for new or custom applications
applications easily.

Rich Ecosystem Data Services Supports all leading applications and data sources (e.g.,
Kasten K10, with Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka etc.)
extensive support
for ecosystem K8s Distributions Supports many Kubernetes distros (e.g., OpenShift, Rancher,
components across etc.) and cloud vendors (Google, Azure, etc.)
the entire application
stack, supports user Storage Supports Cloud Storage (e.g., AWS, Google, Azure) and on-
choice to pick the best prem: e.g., EMC, NetApp, etc.)
tools or infrastructure
for the job. Security Supports a wide range of partnerships aimed at hardening
the platform (AWS, Red Hat, HashiCorp, Kyverno, OPA, etc.)

Kasten by Veeam® is the leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. Its solution helps
enterprises overcome Day 2 (live) data management challenges to confidently run applications on Resources
Kubernetes. Kasten K10, its data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides
enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup and restore, disaster
recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity. Kasten is an independent
Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam. For more information, visit www.kasten.io or follow
@kastenhq on Twitter.

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