Kasten by Veeam®, the leader in Kubernetes backup, announced Software AG has chosen Kasten K10 by Veeam for effortless and reliable backup and recovery of ARIS®, the company’s premier business process analysis and management software solution for organisations seeking to embrace digital transformation. Kasten K10 offers a significant reduction in the recovery time needed to restore in the event of an outage, potentially allowing Software AG to recover in hours instead of days.
Software AG, Germany's second-largest corporate software firm, employs over 4,700 people in over 70 countries, serves over 10,000 businesses, and empowers genuinely linked businesses. ARIS, Software AG's Business Process Transformation tool, allows companies to design, manage, and analyse their business processes from start to finish. The platform comprises hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and supports customers all around the world, with six ARIS editions available to satisfy the needs of customers of varied sizes and use requirements. As Software AG's customer base grew, the firm realised it needed a modern backup and recovery solution to protect bigger volumes of data and applications more quickly — its present proprietary in-house solution needed to be replaced.
Software AG set out to find a reliable and scalable Kubernetes backup and recovery solution that could manage large volumes of data while also reducing recovery time in the event of a failure. Kasten K10 was quickly located. With Kasten K10’s “set it and forget it” workflows managing backups at scale via automation and dynamic policies, eliminating the need to create custom scripts, Software AG can accommodate more data volume for customers, without the risk of failing to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for service availability and uptime. Kasten K10's application mobility functionality saves time by allowing Software AG's team to quickly transfer applications between clusters, regardless of the underlying infrastructure, avoiding vendor lock-in.
“As our customer base continued to grow, we knew we needed a backup and recovery solution that provided scalable multi-cluster backup and recovery while minimising recovery time,” said Marc Lehmann, Director ARIS Governance & Cloud at Software AG. “We chose Kasten K10 [by Veeam] for our Kubernetes backup and recovery solution because of its extensibility, cloud-native architecture, ability to integrate with existing infrastructure and because it’s purpose-built for Kubernetes.”
According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report for 2022, 56 per cent of companies are already employing containers in production, with another 35 per cent planning to do so. As Kubernetes becomes more widely adopted by businesses, backup and recovery for Kubernetes environments is required to maintain data security. By using Kasten K10, businesses may continue to speed their digital transitions while being confident that their data is safe.
Software AG now has end-to-end protection for stateful and stateless applications, can decrease the risk of hardware failure and malicious data loss, and can continue continuous operations with safe, high-performance backups, thanks to Kasten K10. With multi-cluster management and scaled backups, Kasten K10 makes it simple to access crucial parameters' aggregate and real-time status. Its user-friendly interface requires minimal training and includes automation and dynamic policies for auto-discovering, adapting, and mapping policies to current application states.
“We're committed to ensuring we’re able to meet the data protection demands our customers need,” said Trevor Seim, VP of Sales at Kasten by Veeam. “We look forward to continued growth with Software AG as they evaluate additional use cases for Kasten K10, such as migrating data between clusters, and rolling out the platform into other business units and software products.”
