Veeam Vault: Managed Cloud Backup for Ransomware Defense
This technical presentation introduces Veeam Cloud Vault, a fully managed, secure cloud storage solution designed to address the escalating challenges of data growth, ransomware attacks, and unpredictable cloud costs. Senior Systems Engineer Yasuda explains how 89% of ransomware attacks now explicitly target backups, making immutable, air-gapped offsite storage critical for business continuity. Veeam Vault eliminates the complexity of architecting secure cloud repositories by providing pre-configured immutability (WORM), AES-256 encryption, logical air-gapping, and multi-zone resilience—all with predictable, all-inclusive pricing that covers storage, API calls, egress, and data retrieval. The session positions Vault as the cornerstone of Veeam's 3-2-1-1-0 rule, which extends the traditional 3-2-1 backup strategy by adding one immutable offsite copy and zero errors through backup verification.
Deployment Scenarios and Hot Site Elimination
The presentation details four migration paths to Veeam Vault: new deployments, secondary backup targets, migration from existing object storage, and integration with scale-out backup repositories. A key use case highlighted is disaster recovery without maintaining an expensive hot site—traditionally a fully operational backup facility with hardware, software, and real-time replication. By storing backups in Vault and leveraging Veeam's direct restore to Azure, organizations can spin up recovery environments on-demand, paying only for compute resources during actual DR events rather than maintaining idle infrastructure year-round. This approach delivers hot site benefits (minimal downtime, geographic separation, near-zero RPO) without the continuous capital and operational expenses.
Kubernetes Data Protection with Kasten Integration
The latter half of the session focuses on protecting Kubernetes stateful workloads using Kasten by Veeam, which natively integrates with Vault as an export target. Kasten captures persistent volume data, encrypts it, creates local snapshots, and exports immutable backups to Vault—enabling application mobility across on-premises and cloud environments, disaster recovery for containerized workloads, and ransomware resilience through clean-room cluster restoration. The live demonstration shows the end-to-end workflow: registering a Vault storage account in Kasten, creating a location profile, configuring backup policies, and executing a backup of a sample application (Pac-Man) to Vault. This integration extends Veeam's data protection capabilities into cloud-native environments, addressing the growing need for Kubernetes backup solutions that support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
