Zerto – Disaster Recovery Solutions: What Zerto can do for you?
Over the last few years the world seems defined by change, with an increase in the number of challenges organisations are facing, including natural disasters, the global crisis, malicious cyberattacks, human error and infrastructure failure. No business, irrespective of size or industry, is immune to these disruptions. These challenges have resulted in the need to accelerate digital initiatives to better address customer needs, which means an acceleration of cloud to deliver at the speed of businesses, heightened security threats and protecting data wherever it resides. Underpinning these challenges is the growing demand for always-on, 24/7 business.
Customers and stakeholders, both internal and external, expect uninterrupted access to their data and applications. The expectation is no downtime and no data loss. Businesses must turn their attention to disaster recovery and back up to ensure that they can meet the demands of a 24/7 business. It is important to consider both the direct and indirect impacts, including financial costs, resources, brand and reputational damage, which results in the loss of productivity. This is in addition to the time spent during and after an incident on analysing, communicating, and reporting. Zerto’s downtime calculator can help you estimate the dollar value an IT outage would cost your organisation.
The imperative for disaster recovery solutions
Zerto is a leader in the data replication, protection and high-growth disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) market.
Many back-up, DR, and ransomware solutions do not necessarily do enough to prevent business downtime, meaning the cost of downtime is not significantly mitigated even if the data is fully recovered. And with time, these costs add up, resulting in significant financial, operational, and reputational loss.
As a result, Zerto assists organisations with continuous data protection (CDP) in the form of backup, disaster recovery, and cloud-based mobility as a single, all-encompassing solution in the form of Zerto 9.0, the latest version of the HPE Zerto IT Resilience Platform.
This latest version includes a range of advanced features designed to protect organisations from the growing threat of ransomware, including immutability and automation, new cloud data management and protection capabilities for end users and managed service providers.
Zerto supports simplicity at scale with one interface, one experience whether that’s on-premises or cloud. The implementation and deployment is fast integrating with an existing tech stack and on-going management is made easy, allowing businesses to protect and mobilise thousands of VMs and terabytes of data to meet critical SLAs.
With orchestration built in, manual processes for backup and disaster recovery are automated. Non-disruptive testing allows users to perform at any time, even during business hours.
Zerto’s CDP technology delivers industry best RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) and RTOs (Recovery Time Objective), minimising the business impact of data loss and downtime. This CDP is across clouds and platforms, empowering businesses to unlock the promise and potential of a hybrid and multi-cloud world.
Part of what makes Zerto’s CDP so powerful is its unique journaling capabilities. The journal tracks every change made in an application or on a server, logging them as checkpoints every 5 or 10 seconds. It retains this capability even when working with thousands of servers. This innovative journal can store the changed data for up to 30 days. This presents unmatched granularity when it comes to recovery, with the ability to rewind to the required checkpoint and recover from that point in time.
This CDP is made possible with Zerto’s near-synchronous, block-level replication, providing the best of both synchronous and asynchronous approaches. Sitting at the hypervisor level, Zerto can be a software-only solution, independent of the underlying hardware and infrastructure. This allows the platform to work seamlessly across hypervisors, clouds, and platforms.
Recovering complex enterprise applications requires the protection of VMs as a cohesive, logical entity. Otherwise, there are risks of inconsistent recovery of multi-VM applications where each VM is restored to a different point in time.
When creating recovery points with Zerto, all the VMs will share the same checkpoint. When the application is recovered, every VM that contains the application recovers from the same point. This allows organisations to protect and recover complex multi-VM applications as one unit to the same point in time, equating to large savings on resources and less time dedicated to recovery.
This platform’s primary aim is to reduce the overhead and stress of managing an organisation’s DR plans through its easy-to-use, highly scalable, cross-functional platform, designed for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Zerto has analytics built in, including out of the box dashboards and reports that provide complete visibility across multi-site, multi-cloud environments and allows for hands-off compliance reporting. Beyond visibility, Zerto offers tools to conduct intelligent, predictive infrastructure planning to enhance your ability to be proactive.
The Zerto Platform converges backup, disaster recovery, and cloud mobility solutions into a single, scalable platform that integrates with HPE servers, 3PAR, StoreOnce, SimpliVity, Nimble, MSA Storage and Hyper converged solutions.
The Zerto IT Resilience Platform delivers over 50% savings in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), RPOs of fewer than 10 seconds, and the ability to scale to over 10,000 VMs, resulting in the ability to help customers recover from unplanned downtime caused by disasters such as ransomware and cyberattacks.
HPE and Zerto: Exceeding organisational IT requirements
With HPE, Zerto has delivered world-leading disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility for cloud-native, containerised, and ritualised applications environments. These include backup and DR for Kubernetes, backup for SaaS, and DR for AWS across all regions and availability zones. In spite of these technological advantages, the real value is arguably in the business value and outcomes, as Zerto can ensure your business continues running uninterrupted.
While businesses continue to face significant issues managing data complexity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, HPE and Zerto’s offering provides a leading solution in managing and protecting organisational data.
Not only is it worth considering HPE Zerto as your DR solution, there are new ranges of innovative Zerto solutions coming soon. We can help you take advantage of the HPE Zerto solution as your IT partner and advisor. Reach out today to make sure you’re getting the most out of the latest solutions.
