Tag: Kubernetes

Kasten sees triple digit growth

Posted on March 3, 2023 by - News

Kasten has posted near triple-digit growth in its fiscal year 2022 earnings due to the spike in demand for secure Kubernetes deployments.
The outfit bills itself as the fastest-growing business within Veeam. It has expanded its footprint by doubling its headcount and extending its presence in the enterprise space and key vertical markets such as finance, wireless telecom, and the public sector.
Product management Veep Gaurav Rishi said: “Kasten by Veeam had a fantastic year reflecting the growth in demand for backup and disaster recovery tools within containerised environments.”

Veeam snaps up Kasten to protect its containers

Posted on October 8, 2020 by - News

Veeam has announced the acquisition of Kubernetes container backup and disaster recovery specialist, Kasten in a deal worth $150 million.

The company said the takeover comes at a time when businesses using containerised workloads continues to rise, with Gartner predicting that 75 percent of enterprises will be running containers in production by 2022.

Veeam CTO Danny Allan said this acquisition represents the natural next stage of the company’s Kubernetes journey.

“Veeam’s acquisition of Kasten is the next step in a strong partnership and shared sense of passion for delivering cloud data management. It represents a testament and critical milestone in our commitment to support our customers’ business transformation to future-ready architectures.”

Pure Storage buys up Portworx

Posted on September 17, 2020 by - News

Pure Storage has snapped up Portworx, a Kubernetes data services platform for approximately $370 million.

The deal is Pure’s largest acquisition to date and the company’s deeper expansion into the fast-growing market for multi-cloud data services to support Kubernetes and containers.

Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO, Pure Storage said enterprises adopt cloud native strategies to advance their business and the acquisition marks a significant milestone in expanding our Modern Data Experience to cover traditional and cloud native applications.

VMware expands Partner Connect programme

Posted on July 22, 2020 by - News

VMware has expanded its Partner Connect programme by adding a new VMware Cloud Native Master Services Competency (MSC).

This is the first competency related to the VMware Tanzu portfolio and is a Cloud Native MSC will provide a foundational step to enable partners to architect a Kubernetes-based platform supported by complementary technologies from the cloud native ecosystem for continuous delivery of applications and is intended to recognise partners who specialise in Kubernetes operations, site reliability engineering and DevOps.

IBM wants 12 years experience on six year old software

Posted on July 14, 2020 by - News

IBM has put out a job advert calling for a candidate with over 12 years of experience with Kubernetes administration and management.

But Kubernetes  has only been out there for six years, so unless Biggish Blue wants time travellers getting the experience is going to be tricky.

The advertisement, which is still live, calls for a “minimum” of 12 years experience in Kubernetes, including “hands-on” experience setting up Kubernetes platforms, deploying microservices and other web applications and managing secure secrets along with container orchestration.

Container management to grow

Posted on June 26, 2020 by - News

Analysts at Gartner  have been shuffling their Tarot cards and reached the conclusion that  worldwide container management revenue will grow strongly.

At the moment things are quite small at just $465.8 million in 2020, but Big G thinks that the industry will reach $944 million by  2024.

LogicMonitor director of engineering  Göran Sandahl said that the  predicted growth is understandable, as containers enable greater velocity and efficiency when developing, deploying and scaling applications.