Episode 13 - Kasten
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk with Niraj Tolia, President, GM and Co-Founder at Kasten. Kasten simplifies the operational management of stateful cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. The K10 Platform for Kubernetes Backup and DR provides an enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications. Niraj and I talk through the brief but eventful history of Kasten leading up to and beyond the Veeam acquisition. We also spend a lot of time talking about how Kubernetes is changing the IT landscape and going deep into the WHY and HOW of protecting Kubernetes workloads with Kasten.
Kasten was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Altos, California, USA.
Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
Kubernetes, Helm, VMware, Tanzu, Docker, Containers
Web: https://kasten.io
K10: https://kasten.io/product
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this special episode of Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:12.7 | This is actually episode 13. My name is Anthony Sputeri and this podcast is all about highlighting |
| 0:18.3 | companies doing great things with great tech. And in this episode, I'm talking to Naraj Talia, president, GM, and co-founder of Kasten. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the show, Naraj. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you so much for having me, Anthony. |
| 0:31.5 | Excited to be here. |
| 0:32.7 | We've been talking for a while, but excited about talking to your audience here today, too. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, this is excellent. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm looking really forward to diving into the cast and story. |
| 0:41.0 | But just before that, it's been a while. |
| 0:43.5 | It's been a bit a month between shows. |
| 0:45.1 | So if you love great things with great tech and you'd like to feature on future episodes, |
| 0:48.8 | you can go to launch.gwgt.com and register interest. |
| 0:53.6 | Actually, we've got all the episodes locked in for the |
| 0:55.7 | rest of the year, which is really exciting for me. So there's some really good things to come. |
| 0:59.5 | So we're taking bookings for 2021. 2021 is looking up in all aspects, right? So yeah, this is great. |
| 1:06.1 | And just another reminder, these shows are available on YouTube and all great podcasting platforms. So if you're |
| 1:13.0 | new to it, please register, please subscribe just to catch up with past episodes and all the |
| 1:18.0 | future episodes. So with that out of the way, again, I mentioned this is a special episode because |
| 1:23.6 | you know, Kasten is now part of the Veen family and, you know, I wanted to chat to Naraj to talk about Kasten, |
| 1:31.5 | the story, because it's a great story. |
| 1:33.5 | And then talk a bit about the space that Kasten is in, |
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