Under Veeam, Kasten remains a true open-source company and has demonstrated its commitment to open source by releasing a new open source project – Kubestr – for the cloud native community. Kubestr enables developers and operators to identify the various storage options present in a given cluster, validate storage configurations, and evaluate storage performance using common benchmarking tools like fio. The goal of the Kubestr project is to enhance the ability of developers and operators to perform quick and comprehensive analysis of their Kubernetes environments and determine the optimal storage for their applications and workloads. In this episode of TFiR Newsroom, we sat down with Michael Cade, Senior Technologist at Kasten by Veeam, to talk about a wide range of topics including tech aspects of Kubestr, open sourced at Kasten under the leadership of Veeam and the roadmap of the project.

About our guest: Michael Cade is a community first technologist for Kasten by Veeam Software with a key focus on technologies such as cloud native, automation & data management. His role at Kasten is to act as a technical thought leader, community champion and project owner to engage with the community and enable influencers and customers to successfully overcome the challenges of Cloud Native Data Management.

Kasten is an independent Kubernetes Business Unit within Veeam, and the award-winning leader in Kubernetes Backup and Disaster Recovery. Kasten helps enterprises overcome Day 2 data management challenges to confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility with unparalleled operational simplicity.