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NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Kubernetes backup as a service implementation of Kasten K10 while
handling a high degree of complexity.
Kubernetes has emerged as the
de facto standard for orchestrating
asten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery containers in edge environments driven
and mobility, announced that Cyberlogic, a Veeam Cloud & Services Provider by applications like video streaming and
K(VCSP) Gold partner, is delivering backup as a Service (BaaS) to Herotel, leveraging AI. Its use in production has increased by
Kasten K10 by Veeam. As the largest fixed wireless internet service provider in South 300% since 2016, according to the Cloud
Africa and a major player in the local fibre industry, Herotel connects 140 000 home and Native Computing Foundation. As such,
business users to the internet across more than 400 towns and cities in South Africa. adoption of Kasten K10 has accelerated
The company will benefit from reliable backup and recovery of its Kubernetes data over the past year, increasing by a factor
and applications, and the ability to meet aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs) to of 10 in 2021 alone.
ensure service availability for clients. “Most enterprise organisations are
Based in South Africa, Cyberlogic’s customers include small- to medium-sized either adopting or planning to adopt
enterprises. The company also maintains multiple tier-one partnerships with Fortune containers in production environments
500 companies, including Dell and Microsoft. Cyberlogic provides Herotel with in the next 12 months,” said Andy
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through a cloud tenant for multiple environments, as Langsam, senior vice president at
well as support for Microsoft 365, including change management, training and adoption. Kasten by Veeam. “As more and more
In 2021, Herotel decided to move to a cloud-based, containerised development organisations across industries continue
environment to keep pace with market demands, and chose Kubernetes. Cyberlogic to adopt Kubernetes for developing
replaced Herotel’s legacy development environment with a Kubernetes environment innovative applications faster and more
deployed across multiple zones. A critical requirement was a robust backup and cost-effectively, reliable backup and
recovery solution to secure and protect Kubernetes data and applications. recovery is essential. We expect our
“We weren’t 100% happy with the results delivered by the cloud provider’s native partners to see increased interest in
backup and recovery tool, so we decided to do a trial of Kasten K10 — and it worked service offerings, and top partners such
flawlessly,” said Mark Tew, CEO at Cyberlogic. “Thanks to Kasten K10, Herotel now as Cyberlogic have the knowledge and
benefits from a highly available Kubernetes environment and the scalability of a cloud- expertise to collaborate and deliver
agnostic solution.” those services seamlessly.”
Cyberlogic’s backup and recovery service offering is the latest development in a
multi-year engagement with Herotel, who can now leverage Kasten’s application-aware, For more information, please visit
fully integrated solution across multiple nodes and regions. Cyberlogic provided a quick www.kasten.io or try K10 for FREE.

IFIP moves into engagement mode at

general assembly

he International Federation for Information Processing IITPSA is the South African country member of IFIP, which
(IFIP) is set to become more interactive and valuable is recognised as the leading international organisation for
Tfor its member societies and their members around ICT and the sciences. Established in 1960 under the auspices
the world. So says Moira de Roche, Vice-president of IFIP, of UNESCO, IFIP represents societies from 56 countries and
Chair of IFIP IP3, and past President and Fellow of the regions around the world, with over 500,000 members and
Institute of Information Technology Professionals South 101 working groups reporting to 13 technical committees.
Africa (IITPSA). Numerous IITPSA members are representatives on various IFIP
De Roche was speaking after attending the IFIP General Technical Committees and Working Groups.
Assembly in France. The South African delegation to the De Roche says IFIP aims to become more relevant and
event also included IITPSA President Admire Gwanzura as an known to a broader audience. “We have such a wealth of
observer, Paula Kotze - Chair of the IFIP Technical Committee knowledge and research, and we need to be taking it to
(TC) 13 on Human-Computer Interaction and IFIP Fellow, governments and other organisations around the world. We
and Dr Jackie Phahlamohlaka, IITPSA’s representative to the need to be packaging the enormous value of the IFIP Technical
IFIP General Assembly and TC9 on ICT and Society, and an Committees and their working groups so that it is accessible to
Honorary Fellow of the IITPSA. those outside of IFIP and its member bodies,” she said.

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