Guest: Sathya Sankaran (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Company: CloudCasa by Catalogic (Twitter)
Show: To The Point
Keywords: Kubernetes, Data Protection

CloudCasa is a Kubernetes backup-as-a-service for cluster resources, persistent volumes, and cloud databases. It was created to offer a solution when customers’ data started being moved to the cloud at a rapid pace. The shift to the cloud called for new, innovative ways of protecting data. Catalogic had already been in the data protection industry for over 20 years. However, as organizations were replatforming their data sets to be able to optimize the cloud usage, the ecosystem began to shift. Sathya Sankaran, Chief Operating Officer at CloudCasa by Catalogic, feels that there was particularly a gap with Kubernetes and its ecosystem. Sankaran explains further about why Catalogic felt there was an opportunity to create a backup service like CloudCasa and why users doing backups have changed in the ecosystem.

About Sathya Sankaran: Sathya is the founder and General Manager of the CloudCasa business within Catalogic Software where he provides operational and strategic oversight across R&D, marketing, sales and partner alliances. Sathya was an early enthusiast of the potential for containers and cloud technologies to transform how we innovate and deliver solutions to businesses. He is responsible for Catalogic’s strategic pivot to focus on addressing Day 2 challenges in Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystems, including data protection, cyber-resilience and cloud mobility. As the COO of Catalogic Software, Sathya leads engineering, sales and alliance teams at Catalogic and was instrumental in the strategic sale of Catalogic Software’s copy data management portfolio to IBM Storage in 2021. Apart from work and a young family, Sathya is passionate about Cricket, F1, electric cars and world politics.

About CloudCasa by Catalogic: CloudCasa by Catalogic is a powerful, cyber-resilient, backup service for protecting Kubernetes workloads, cloud databases, and cloud-native applications, that is free to start using.

The summary of the show is written by Emily Nicholls.