Veeam Kasten v7.5: Revolutionising Kubernetes Backup and Recovery
News|8 January 2025
Veeam has announced the release of Kasten v7.5, the latest version of its industry-leading Kubernetes backup and recovery solution. This new release brings significant advancements in scale, performance, security, and ecosystem coverage, empowering your organisation with brilliant resilience for your cloud-native applications and virtual machines (VMs) on Kubernetes.
Key features of Veeam Kasten v7.5
- Enterprise-Scale Resilience: Enhanced data scaling, granular data mover, and Microsoft Azure changed block tracking ensure high performance and control for demanding Kubernetes environments.
- Expanded Security and Compliance: Google Cloud Storage Immutability and multi-cluster FIPS 140-3 support bolster security, allowing you to build, deploy, and run cloud-native applications with confidence.
- Modern Virtualisation: Unified resilience for VM infrastructure on Kubernetes, alongside containerised applications, ensures comprehensive protection.
- Data-Scaling Enhancements: Efficiently protect large-scale application volumes, including millions of files, optimising backup and restore operations.
- Google Cloud Storage Immutability: Protect backups with object lock integration from ransomware attacks.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation: Automatically deploy and protect OpenShift Virtualisation VMs at the edge with production-ready best practices and GitOps.
- Granular Data Mover Resourcing: Dynamically allocate data mover CPU and memory resources on a per-app basis for efficient resource utilisation.
- Multi-Cluster FIPS Support: Expanded Kasten multi-cluster management for OpenShift, adhering to strict security benchmarks.
- CBT for Microsoft Azure: Improve export performance and lower resource consumption for Azure Managed Disk volumes with Change Block Tracking integration.
- Azure Federated Identity: Eliminate credential risks with the newly supported Azure Identity Federation.
- Immutable Restore Point Visibility: Identify whether a restore point is immutable easily for efficient recovery.
- Red Hat OpenShift Dynamic Console Support: Gain critical insights into data protection operations directly from the OpenShift console.
- OpenShift Security Enhancements: Ensure precise and secure control over workload permissions with new annotations in OpenShift.
We particularly love the new Azure features!
Veeam Kubernetes backup brings resilience
Veeam Kasten v7.5 is set to redefine Kubernetes resilience. It offers the tools you need to secure and scale your modern enterprise applications and VMs with confidence.
For more information about Veeam's Kubernetes backup release, please head to the official release page.
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