Infinidat teams up with Veeam on Kubernetes

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Kubernetes users are to get a boost as Infinidat teams up with Veeam to offer a new joint solution that takes advantage of Veeam Kasten v7.5, the latest version of the industry’s leading Kubernetes resilience, recovery and mobility platform.  Combined with the massive scalability, robustness and enhanced cyber resilience capabilities of the newest-generation of InfiniBox storage systems, the joint solution provides a more seamless persistent storage layer with rapid backup and recovery for mission-critical stateful workloads, including support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

"The combination of Veeam Kasten v7.5 and Infinidat’s InfiniBox storage solutions is a perfect match for protecting critical workloads that are running in a Kubernetes environment,” explains Gaurav Rishi, Vice President, Kasten Product and Partnerships, Veeam.  “Kubernetes has become a vital part of enterprise infrastructure, especially in large enterprises and service providers, from its infancy as a DevOps application development and deployment environment to now being a production platform for delivering enterprise-class business applications.  It is essential for our mutual customers that Veeam and Infinidat provide a highly cyber resilient, highly scalable, and highly performant next-generation data protection solution.”
 
The solution leverages the expanded immutability support in Veeam Kasten v7.5 to enhance security of data by being able to trigger InfiniSafe® immutable snapshots, enabled by Infinidat’s Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver.  In addition, multi-protocol flexibility supports persistent volumes via block and file protocols, optimizing the unparalleled ease of use of both the InfiniBox and Veeam Kasten v7.5.

“Infinidat’s comprehensive support for Veeam Kasten v7.5 enables large-scale Kubernetes production deployments that are reliable, robust, and cyber secure,” adds Erik Kaulberg, Vice President of Strategy and Alliances, Infinidat.  “Delivering best-in-class real-world application and workload performance, 100% availability, and cyber storage resilience, InfiniBox systems can scale to hundreds of thousands of persistent volumes.  Partners like Veeam and Red Hat help fuel our containers innovation pipeline, providing a steady stream of enhancements that help our joint customers simplify all aspects of their container storage environments at enterprise scale.”

Supporting the enterprise market-wide adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as an alternative to traditional virtualization platforms, the Infinidat/Veeam collaboration enables organizations to modernize data infrastructures by bringing new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads and virtualized applications to Kubernetes and container deployments.  Infinidat’s storage solutions are part of the Veeam Ready for Kubernetes program.   

 

In addition, the InfiniBox solution was successfully tested last year to work with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.