OKESTRO and Veeam Software partner on cloud migration and data protection

[Financial News] Artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software company OKESTRO is joining forces with global data protection company Veeam Software to target the cloud migration and data protection markets. The plan is to securely migrate companies’ existing systems to new cloud environments and provide integrated backup and recovery capabilities to guard against outages and cyberattacks.
OKESTRO announced on the 11th that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Veeam Software on cloud infrastructure modernization and data protection. The signing ceremony was held on the 28th of last month at OKESTRO’s headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, with attendees including Kim Young-kwang, OKESTRO’s representative, Sokleng Tan, Veeam Software’s head of channel business for Southeast Asia and Korea, and Hong Seong-gu, head of Veeam Software Korea.
The agreement was made in response to companies’ demand for transitioning away from VMware and establishing disaster recovery (DR) systems. As cloud adoption expands, minimizing data loss and service disruptions while migrating existing systems to new platforms—and maintaining a stable operating environment afterward—has emerged as a key challenge.
The two companies plan to integrate Veeam Software’s backup, recovery and workload mobility technologies into OKESTRO’s server virtualization solution CONTRABASS and its cloud-native operations management platform VIOLA.
To this end, they will use Veeam Data Platform, which supports data backup and recovery across virtual, physical and cloud environments, and Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes, which supports application mobility and disaster recovery in Kubernetes environments.
Before signing the agreement, OKESTRO and Veeam Software completed proof-of-concept (PoC) testing across various infrastructure environments. In addition to basic backup integration, they tested disaster recovery and workload mobility capabilities in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments.
Based on this work, the companies plan to develop an integrated solution and joint package covering everything from system migration to backup and disaster recovery. They will pursue joint sales and technical seminars for domestic companies, and are also considering expanding their cooperation to overseas markets in the future.
“Modernization without recovery capabilities merely moves risk to a new platform. Data resilience must be built into the design from the outset,” said Hong Seong-gu, head of Veeam Software Korea.
“As more companies look for alternatives to their existing virtualization infrastructure or pursue cloud-native adoption, the importance of data protection and disaster recovery is growing alongside that of system migration,” said Kim Young-kwang, OKESTRO’s technology lead. “We will jointly develop an integrated solution covering backup and disaster recovery to expand business opportunities in the domestic market.”
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