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The Bots are Coming for Your Data

The Bots are Coming for Your Data

In this post, we reflect on current affairs and the risk that rogue AI poses to data and security

"We're stateless, we just redeploy from Git" — five reasons that's false confidence

A lot of teams believe a stateless application is safe because it can be rebuilt from a Git commit at any time. That belief quietly ignores the metadata layer — and five very real failure modes, the last of which no rebuild can ever fix. Here is why your metadata deserves an immutable backup too.

Understanding Kasten immutability: retention vs. protection period

Understanding Kasten immutability: retention vs. protection period

Two concepts people constantly conflate — the retention of a restore point and its immutability protection period — and how the Blob Lifecycle Manager keeps your backups locked for exactly as long as they need to be.

Protecting IBM Maximo on OpenShift with Veeam Kasten

Protecting IBM Maximo on OpenShift with Veeam Kasten

How we protect IBM Maximo Application Suite on OpenShift with Veeam Kasten — from in-place restore to full disaster recovery on a different cluster.

Aggregating Kasten metrics to a centralized Prometheus instance

Aggregating Kasten metrics to a centralized Prometheus instance

In this blog, We will look at how to enable remote_writes from Kasten's internal prometheus to push metrics to a centralized prometheus receiver.

Veeam Kasten and SUSE Harvester 1.7.1

Veeam Kasten and SUSE Harvester 1.7.1

In this post, we revisit protecting VMs on SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) 1.7.1