As organizations scale Kubernetes across hybrid environments, they need data protection that is built for cloud-native operations and aligned with the platforms already powering their infrastructure.
HPE Morpheus Enterprise is a comprehensive Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that empowers organizations to orchestrate any workload across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments, leveraging a wide array of virtualization and container platforms. Its architecture is designed to be 100% agnostic, integrating seamlessly with existing enterprise technologies such as VMware vCenter, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Terraform, and ServiceNow, without requiring disruptive changes to your IT landscape. Morpheus delivers a unified control plane that enables self-service provisioning, lifecycle automation, robust governance, and cost management, all from a single interface.
For Kubernetes, HPE Morpheus Enterprise offers both its own CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution—HKS—and the ability to import and centrally manage existing clusters, including those from major cloud providers like Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE. This flexibility ensures organizations can adopt a multi-cloud strategy while maintaining centralized control and visibility. Morpheus automates the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters, from initial provisioning and scaling to upgrades and decommissioning, and integrates with enterprise-grade storage and data protection solutions through standards-based interfaces like the HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes.
For customers running Kubernetes through HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HKS clusters, CloudCasa by Catalogic extends that environment with Kubernetes-aware backup and recovery, giving platform teams a flexible way to protect applications, persistent data, and critical Kubernetes resources.
Available in both SaaS and self-hosted deployment models, CloudCasa gives customers the flexibility to adopt the operational model that best fits their requirements while aligning backup architecture with validated HPE storage targets such as HPE StoreOnce and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000. CloudCasa also brings enterprise capabilities such as multi-tenancy, role-based access control (RBAC), and application-aware protection to help organizations protect Kubernetes environments at scale.
Extending HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HKS clusters with Kubernetes-aware protection
Protecting Kubernetes workloads requires more than traditional infrastructure backup. Platform teams need to protect not only persistent storage, but also the Kubernetes objects, namespaces, configurations, and application context that make recovery meaningful.
CloudCasa is purpose-built for Kubernetes and helps organizations protect workloads running on HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HKS clusters with recovery that is aligned to the way modern cloud-native applications are deployed and operated. Instead of relying on infrastructure-centric backup approaches, teams can use CloudCasa to protect Kubernetes environments with application-aware recovery options designed for real-world operations.
Flexible deployment with SaaS or self-hosted control
Customers have different operational requirements, especially across enterprise, service provider, edge, and regulated environments. CloudCasa supports those needs with two deployment options.
CloudCasa SaaS provides a fully hosted control plane for organizations that want to reduce operational overhead and accelerate time to value.
CloudCasa Self-Hosted gives customers the same core Kubernetes backup and recovery capabilities in a model that can be deployed and managed within their own environment.
This flexibility allows customers using HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HKS clusters to standardize on a single Kubernetes data protection platform while choosing the operating model that best fits their security, compliance, and deployment strategy.
Enterprise controls for shared and multi-team Kubernetes environments
As Kubernetes adoption grows, data protection is often managed across multiple teams, business units, customers, or environments. CloudCasa helps address that complexity with built-in multi-tenancy and role-based access control.
With multi-tenancy, organizations can logically separate users, environments, and protected resources to support different teams or tenants under a single platform. With RBAC, administrators can control who can view, manage, back up, and recover resources based on defined roles and permissions.
These capabilities are especially important for enterprises, managed service providers, and large internal platform teams that need centralized visibility while maintaining separation of duties and administrative control.
App-aware backup for stateful Kubernetes applications
Many Kubernetes environments run more than stateless services. They also run business-critical databases and stateful applications that require consistency during backup and recovery.
CloudCasa supports application-aware backup through app hooks, helping coordinate protection workflows for applications such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL. This allows customers to better protect stateful workloads by integrating pre- and post-backup actions that improve backup consistency for database-driven applications.
For HPE customers running modern applications on HKS clusters, this adds another layer of protection beyond infrastructure and storage alone by helping ensure that critical application data is captured in a more recovery-ready state.
Granular recovery for Kubernetes operations
Recovery requirements can vary widely depending on the application and the incident. Some scenarios call for a full application recovery. Others require more precise recovery of only the affected data or resources.
CloudCasa supports granular recovery options including:
- Full Kubernetes application recovery
- Recovery of an entire namespace
- Recovery of selected Kubernetes resources
- File-level recovery from PVC data
These capabilities help platform teams reduce disruption and recover only what is needed, whether the goal is restoring an application environment, recovering configuration objects, or retrieving individual files from persistent volume data.
Backup target alignment with HPE StoreOnce and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
For customers standardizing on HPE infrastructure, storage alignment is an important part of the protection strategy. CloudCasa can be used with validated HPE backup targets including HPE StoreOnce and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000.
HPE StoreOnce is well suited for backup environments that require efficient storage utilization, strong recovery performance, and cyber resilience features.
HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 provides a scale-out object storage platform that fits modern object-based protection architectures and larger-scale backup retention requirements.
Together, these options give customers flexibility in how they design Kubernetes backup architectures while staying aligned with HPE storage platforms.
Supporting object and file-based backup strategies
CloudCasa supports backup workflows built around both file-based and object-based targets. In HPE environments, that enables customers to align Kubernetes protection strategies with storage platforms that match their performance, retention, and operational requirements.
For joint HPE and CloudCasa customers, that means backup architectures can be built around:
- HPE StoreOnce
- HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
This gives organizations the ability to protect Kubernetes applications in a way that fits both cloud-native operations and enterprise storage strategy.
Immutability for stronger cyber resilience
Cyber resilience is now a core requirement for modern backup design, especially for stateful Kubernetes workloads that support business-critical applications.
CloudCasa supports immutability to object storage, helping strengthen protection for retained backup data and supporting recovery readiness in the face of operational mistakes, accidental deletion, or malicious tampering. This is an important capability for organizations looking to build more resilient backup strategies around modern Kubernetes environments.
A combined value proposition for HPE customers
Together, HPE and CloudCasa provide a modern approach to Kubernetes data protection for workloads running on HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HKS clusters.
That includes:
Kubernetes-aware protection
CloudCasa is built specifically for protecting Kubernetes applications and persistent data.
Operational flexibility
Customers can choose SaaS for simplicity or self-hosted deployment for greater control.
Granular recovery
Teams can recover namespaces, resources, and files from PVC-backed data.
Application-aware backup
App hooks help support more consistent protection workflows for databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
Enterprise-ready controls
Multi-tenancy and RBAC help support shared environments, delegated administration, and separation of duties.
HPE-aligned backup targets
Validated support for HPE StoreOnce and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 helps align Kubernetes backup with HPE storage strategy.
Stronger resilience
Immutability for object storage helps improve backup protection and recovery readiness.
Closing
Kubernetes environments need protection that is as modern and flexible as the applications they run. With CloudCasa delivering Kubernetes backup and recovery for HPE Morpheus Enterprise and HKS clusters, customers gain a solution designed for cloud-native workloads, flexible enough for SaaS or self-hosted deployment, and aligned with validated HPE storage targets including HPE StoreOnce and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000.
By combining granular recovery, application-aware protection, multi-tenancy, role-based access control, and immutable backup support, CloudCasa helps HPE customers protect Kubernetes applications with the operational flexibility, governance, and resilience needed for hybrid environments at scale.