Application Modernization with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Veritas

Many of you have invested a great deal in a traditional virtualized environment. You may now be seeking alternatives that provide lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and more flexibility in supporting a hybrid cloud model.  Adoption of Kubernetes is also on the rise, but it’s often challenging to incorporate older applications into a cloud-native model without disrupting business processes and increasing risk.  Veritas knows this is not for the faint of heart — we have gone through this transition ourselves in modernizing our own NetBackup cloud infrastructure with Veritas Cloud Scale Technology.

You’re likely seeking a platform that provides the lower cost, flexibility, scalability, and resource optimization that today’s hybrid cloud environments require.  That is where virtualization on top of Kubernetes has emerged.  It allows you to easily migrate your applications from traditional virtualization to a more modern virtualization platform that provides you with all the benefits of Kubernetes: containerized deployment, microservices-based architecture, and multi-cloud portability. Once you are on the new platform, you can modernize the actual applications themselves at the pace that works best for your business.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift, offers a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent application platform to address application modernization needs across hybrid cloud environments.  Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is uniquely positioned to help you accelerate the migration of traditional virtual machines (VMs) to a scalable, modern infrastructure platform, while helping you manage risk along the way. Red Hat OpenShift is the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes and allows you to run VMs across the hybrid cloud with a more consistent management experience and set of tools and processes, driving greater operational efficiency and flexibility.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which leverages the open source projects KVM and Kubevirt, helps simplify the migration process and management of existing VMs with a scalable, enterprise-grade application platform that runs across the hybrid cloud, including on-premises, in the public cloud, and at the edge. With a single management interface and set of development and operations tools, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides an easier path for migrating existing virtual machines onto a modern, unified platform.

But how can you add enterprise-grade protection to this new environment without having to become an instant expert in Kubernetes?  How can you avoid putting your environment at risk of a ransomware attack because you haven’t figured out backups, disaster recovery or cyber recovery yet? This is where Veritas NetBackup comes in.

With so many customers asking Veritas about Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and asking Red Hat about their support for Veritas, it was the perfect time for our two companies to expand our collaboration and bring this offering to market. After many years of experience protecting VM and Kubernetes environments, we are proud to announce that our recent NetBackup 10.5 release now supports  Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. With this support, NetBackup 10.5 can automatically protect VMs after migration with all of the same advanced functionality you have depended on for your traditional virtualization platforms, providing an essential part of your path to a cloud-native future.

With this release, NetBackup enables Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization users to more quickly and easily start protecting those machines as they come online with our intelligent policies. Being able to use the same data protection platform to provide ransomware resilient protection to traditional VMs, Kubevirt-based OpenShift VMs, and Red Hat OpenShift applications automatically and simultaneously makes life a lot simpler and your business more secure.

Benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Veritas NetBackup

• Smoother migration with immediate VM protection
  • Using autonomous data protection with NetBackup for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, customers can benefit from immediate VM protection as soon as they migrate to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Red Hat OpenShift’s modern infrastructure platform allows customers to run VMs across the hybrid cloud while NetBackup provides quick recovery of applications through enterprise-grade resilience.
• Advanced optimization with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
  • Allows you to simplify the adoption of modern technology by using a single framework, eliminating the need for point solutions. This helps reduce TCO while still providing enterprise level capabilities, such as lifecycle management of images, autonomous data protection of VMs, optimized data movement leveraging incremental forever and deduplication, and optimized scaling of backup platform data movement resources. 
• Flexibility across the hybrid cloud
  • Because NetBackup supports both Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and containerized workloads on-premises and in the cloud, enterprises can benefit from protection throughout their path to infrastructure modernization as they scale, no matter where they are running their applications.
• Cyber resilience
  • Provides a solution that understands the application and fortifies against ransomware risk in the environment. Integrated support for advanced malware scanning, AI-powered anomaly detection, immutable storage, FIPS compliance, adaptive MPA and MFA, and instant recovery from snapshot.

Veritas NetBackup with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization delivers a powerful solution that simplifies management, enhances security, and ensures the scalability and reliability of your applications. You can prevent data loss, enable rapid recovery, and streamline operations through this unified solution, regardless of where you run your applications.

With this collaboration, Veritas continues our unwavering commitment to protect and secure your data for better cyber resiliency across the complete hybrid cloud at any scale.

To meet the challenges of the evolving data center landscape, upgrade to NetBackup 10.5 or talk to your account manager about a Veritas Alta Data Protection subscription to protect your modern workloads. 

To learn more about this solution, visit red.ht/netbackup_openshift_virt  and watch the product demo.

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