How Zerto Helps IT Ops Leaders Improve Operations Continuity
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Zerto for IT Ops Leaders

I&O Teams | Sysadmins, DevOps and SREs

Meet SLAs

Keep operations running

Streamline operations

Getting Things Done. But Better.

As an IT Ops leader, or manager, you’re responsible for IT performance and availability along with operations continuity. There's a lot on your plate, so it's normal for you and your team to feel stretched and overwhelmed.

It feels like you never have enough time or resources to stay ahead of the curve and manage all the business needs, operational issues, and other challenges. Despite it all, you manage to get things done and find ways to get them done better.

Your Focus Is On

Ensuring the availability and performance of IT resources, systems, and applications
Maintaining and optimizing data centers and computing, storage, and networking equipment
Managing installations, upgrades, and configuration of hardware, software, and devices
Setting up and overseeing data protection, recovery systems, and operations
Executing IT consolidation, modernization, and migration initiatives

How Zerto Can Help You

Balancing Time and Resources to Meet SLAs

Whether it’s a service level agreement (SLA) for disaster recovery, patching systems and software, or migrating workloads or an entire data center, you’re racing against the clock with limited resources.

In addition, each SLA applies to a different area and requires distinct solutions and skillsets.

Ensuring operations continuity

To reduce the impact of any disruption on operations, IT recovery time requirements keep getting shorter. Recovery solutions must minimize downtime and data loss to meet these requirements while simplifying the recovery management process to reduce overhead and complexity.

Supporting strategic initiatives

Managing workload and VM migrations at scale is a must when executing strategic, highly visible IT consolidation or modernization initiatives. At a bare minimum, you must shorten the timeline and minimize impact on operations in a safe, seamless manner.

Maintaining a safe, protected infrastructure

To keep up with cyber threats, the security team flags vulnerabilities that need to be addressed quickly. In addition, software and application upgrades come with their own deadlines and risks (CrowdStrike global disruption). The main challenge is to test and validate changes before implementation in an environment similar to your production environment.

What You Need

Shrink Time with a Twist

Meeting SLAs is an ongoing challenge, especially in diverse areas like business continuity, patch management, and IT migration.


Consider and evaluate any solution that delivers on multiple requirements.


Simple, fast, and effective recovery management

Your recovery solution delivers fast RTOs and low RPOs in a streamlined way so you can execute your DR plan simply with minimal overhead.

Efficient workload mobility—safe and at scale

Shorten implementation time for IT modernization and consolidation projects with a solution that can handle the size of your environment and protect your workloads during a move.

Accelerated, trusted patch management workflow

Your team responds quickly to security team requests to patch systems or applications by creating on-demand, high-fidelity replicas of your environment for testing and validation.

“The service levels we are delivering to the business we never thought would be possible. It really helps me sleep at night. I know the application will be available in five minutes.”

Kevin Jackson, Senior Administrator, Hapo Community Credit Union

“And in terms of our RTO, recovering and validating the system has gone from between hours and days, to now happening in a matter of 30 minutes to a few hours. It has helped reduce downtime by days.”

IT Analyst, Wholesaler/Distributor

“The CDP allows to switch to an alternate location if weather concerns are an issue. Also the ability to role back individual servers is fantastic. The RTOs and RPOs are incredible. The tools give us the ability to recover a file or a database the has been corrupted. With journaling we are able to role back from a few minutes to days.”

IT Director, Government

What Zerto Offers You

Fast, Streamlined Recovery

Zerto orchestration and automation capabilities enable organizations to recover effectively from any disruption with the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs in the industry

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Zerto always-on, hypervisor-based replication protects your data and generates a continuous stream of recovery checkpoints from the journal.

Orchestration and automation

Recover entire sites, applications, VMs, folders, and files in just a few clicks. Simply select a checkpoint and let simple, automated Zerto workflows do the rest.

On-premises, to the cloud, within the cloud, as a service

Use Zerto no matter how you implement your DR plan: DR on premises in your data center, leveraging the public cloud—AWS or Azure—for your cloud DR or in-cloud DR, or through an MSP for DRaaS.

Zerto Continuous Data Protection
Zerto for Disaster Recovery

What Zerto Offers You

On-demand Cloning for Testing

Easily spin up your environment or applications to create self-serve, high-fidelity clones for testing and validating security patches or software and application upgrades.

On-demand sandbox environments

Just four clicks produce a clone against seconds-old, true copies of production in an isolated sandbox.

No impact on production

Because testing occurs in its own sandbox, it’s available at any time and has no impact on replication or protection status.

Easy post-test cleanup

Easily dispose of any data generated during a test.

Zerto for Patch Testing
Zerto Nondisruptive Testing

“Overall, the product has worked very well for us. We us it to replicate from our production site to our DR site. We also use the ability to spin servers up in a test "bubble" to perform various upgrade test to see the impact before we put them into production.”

Server Administrator, IT Services Industry



“We see the biggest ROI from Zerto's real-time test environment. If we want to do a proof of concept on a hundred servers, we can spin them up within a few hours and have them ready to start testing stuff with real data to see how that might look if we were to deploy that into production. It's an excellent, accurate test environment that we don't need to maintain.”

Sr Systems Engineer, Construction company

“ Zerto enables us to set the IPs and map everything out in our environment prior to migration. We can create VPGs and mass migrate applications, databases, and web clients. That was the selling point for us.”

Server Administrator, Government



“ The auto-connect feature is valuable because we can set the amount of time that we delay before committing a move from one location to another, giving application teams time to validate that the move went well and everything is working before we commit those changes. That gives us the ability to roll back to the same point we were at before we shut things down, if needed.”

Senior Analyst, IS Infrastructure,

Energy/Utilities company



“ In the old days, during data center swaps, it used to take days to move our workload environments over, whereas now, it literally takes an hour for hundreds of servers to migrate. Literally, in under a minute, an app stack can move down and up in a new data center. It is reflected in the uptime support to our customers. Our company is very happy with the product.”

Engineer, Financial Services firm



What Zerto Offers You

Fast, Safe Migrations

Leverage Zerto CDP to move workloads and applications quickly and safely. Zerto reduces the time needed to complete migration projects and gives you peace of mind by preventing chaos, even for large-scale migrations.

Near-zero migration times

The Zerto simplified, orchestrated move operation works in tandem with nondisruptive background replication to deliver near-zero migration times in just a few clicks, whether you’re relocating a single workload or an entire data center

Protected migrations

During the orchestrated, automated Zerto migration process, VMs stay protected.

Multi-VM applications move with consistency

Move interdependent, multi-VM applications with ease and consistency using Zerto virtual protection groups (VPGs).

Safe, error-proof migrations

Test migrated VMs before committing to a move. Easily revert back to your initial state if there’s a problem.

Zerto for Migrations

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Staying Ahead of the Curve

Gaining and maintaining visibility over the performance and protection of your applications, systems, and infrastructure is essential for spotting potential issues. Knowing whether you need to grow or adjust your infrastructure helps you to plan effectively and avoid creating disruptions.

In addition to proactive and preemptive actions, your team must be ready to face any sudden, challenging situation that threatens the continuity of operations.


Making the most out of your visibility capabilities

Many solutions and tools deliver some kind of visibility, but fragmentation often makes it difficult to manage and comprehend. Automation can help by pairing metrics monitoring with alert triggering. Other tools may be embedded in defined processes such as audits aimed at identifying unprotected systems.

Leveraging information from your current environment to estimate future needs is another way for you to stay ahead. Your challenge is to find the least tools to cover the most needs.

Achieving readiness through frequent training

Like firefighters, your team never knows exactly what situation they will encounter. Frequent training builds their ability to respond effectively to stressful situations and acquire automatic reflexes for managing critical disruptions. It’s essential to test your DR plan frequently without having to block evenings and weekends for planning and execution. Your readiness depends on repetition to learn and refine your response, runbooks, and more.

What You Need

Multi-Faceted Solution for Visibility and Readiness

One tool should meet several of your visibility and readiness needs, whether it’s a dedicated instrument or a solution that serves other purposes.

Active KPI monitoring

Set thresholds for KPIs that trigger alerts to other systems or administrators when out of bounds.

Auditing your environment

Identify devices and systems not meeting specific criteria across your environments (on-premises and cloud).

Recovery testing and reporting

Run frequent tests any time with minimal preparation. Get post-test reports to document recovery performance.

Planning and forecasting

Easily assess future IT needs based on current resources to create the right plan and justify budget and other resources.

What Zerto Offers You

Visibility Through Zerto Analytics

Available as a free Zerto add-on, Zerto Analytics provides you with multiple visibility capabilities.

RPO monitoring

Get historical data for RPOs and use it to set thresholds for real-time monitoring and trigger alerts when your RPOs go out of bounds.

Identifying unprotected VMs/workloads

Easily identify unprotected VMs and workloads across your environments (on-premises and cloud) in a single UI and take action to protect them.

Zerto Planner

To protect new VMs and workloads, Zerto Planner—a part of Zerto Analytics—helps you determine bandwidth requirements and more based on your DR implementation (on-premises and cloud).

Zerto Analytics
Analytics in Action

"The most valuable features for us are the analytics and reporting. Being able to see a snapshot of our environment, and knowing where we stand in our recovery atmosphere using Zerto, are really valuable aspects"

IT Analyst, Wholesaler/Distributor

“They have an intelligent, predictive infrastructure, so I can just pretty much determine the required compute storage and other server networking resources, whether it is on-premises or in the cloud.”

Sr. Data Scientist, Tech Vendor

“Zerto provides real-time analytics and monitoring, enabling our organization to quickly identify and resolve issues.”

IT Supervisor, Consultancy

“Before, the testing would take an entire weekend and multiple departments in order to complete it. Now we're finishing our testing in a matter of hours"

Ryan Schader, Senior System Engineer, Financial Services firm

“Zerto has helped to reduce our organization's DR testing. We can create failover tests seamlessly, and we can do this routinely. We are able to save time and look at how we can discern between RTO and RPO.”

Sr. Data Scientist, Tech Vendor

“ Zerto is great at DR testing. We can spin off critical VMs or an entire environment pretty quickly and have users test against this copy with no production environment impact.”

Giovanni Golinelli, Hybrid IT Architect, Quanture Spa

What Zerto Offers You

Readiness with Nondisruptive Testing

Stop thinking of failover testing as a coordinated, multi-team, time-consuming operation. Instead, you can leverage Zerto for a simplified, automated disaster recovery testing solution.

Simple, automated failover testing

With just a few clicks, run a failover simulation for your entire data center or a single application. Customize your test using APIs and empower any team member to run it safely and confidently.

No impact on production

Because testing occurs in its own sandbox, it’s available at any time and has no impact on replication or protection status.

Powerful post-test operations

Easily dispose of data generated during a test and produce failover test reports that can be used for compliance auditing.

Zerto Nondisruptive Testing

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More about Zerto

Doing More with Less

Budgets are not increasing in line with business needs and delivery timeframes are getting shorter, leaving resources stretched thin.

Too many late nights and less time with family can lead to heightened frustration and staff burnout. Streamlining your productions can help address these issues.

Too many manual processes and tasks

Despite improvements in the design and features of new tools, system administrators and end users still perform manual tasks more often than expected, due to a general lack of automation, when running analyses or executing complex, disjointed workflows. This means even less time available for your team.

Too many siloed solutions and tools

Tech stacks keep growing despite efforts to shrink and rationalize them. Solution integration can unlock the value of what you already have and reduce manual tasks without growing your stack.

Solution and process complexity

The complexity inherent to some solutions makes it hard for team members to improve themselves and master them. Reaching proficiency requires a lot of training. Often, this translates into more complex workflows and runbooks, along with reliance on the expertise of a limited number of individuals.

What You Need

Automation, Integration, and Simplicity

These three pillars can help you streamline your operations without stretching your resources even more. Look for these attributes when considering a new or replacement solution.

These three pillars can help you streamline your operations without stretching your resources even more. Look for these attributes when considering a new or replacement solution.

Automation and orchestration

Speed up and simplify workflows by orchestrating and automating labor-intensive or time-consuming tasks.

Customization and integration via APIs

Connect solutions and tools and customize scripts and workflows to fit your use case, tech stacks, and environment. Verify the types of integrations and customizations available (APIs).

Evaluating ease of use and simplicity

Do a hands-on evaluation for ease of use, learning curve, efficiency, and management of your specific use cases.

“Zerto has had a good effect on our RPOs. There is continuous protection and availability of data because it is all automated.”

Linda Kane, Data Analyst, Manufacturing company

“The days when the network team had to validate connectivity to the DR site, the storage team confirm data replication completion, the server team initialize servers, so the application teams could validate their applications are long gone! Zerto's capabilities move DR to the 21s century by orchestrating and automating "one-click" recovery.”

Senior Information Security Specialist,

Healthcare and Biotech industry

“It's ease of use once you get to know it. It works and works flawlessly, we use it for data migrations as well as DR for recovery operations. It's almost a "set it and forget it" style software, we just don't worry about it not working.”

Sr. Systems Engineer, Consumer Goods

What Zerto Offers You

Automated Workflows and Recovery

Zerto leverages its orchestration and automation capabilities to save you time, resources, and cost while making it easier and faster to manage your recovery and migration workflows.

Automated CDP with consistent recovery

Say goodbye to long, excruciating hours trying to sync your data and applications during recovery. Zerto always-on, hypervisor-based replication automates protection and enables recovery of enterprise applications spanning multiple VMs, hosts, and datastores as one logical entity to the exact same point in time.

VM automatic protection with vSphere tags

Simplify disaster recovery and data protection for workloads by applying a vSphere tag to your VMs through an admin or automated workflow. These tags protect your VMs sooner without additional procedures.

Orchestrated move operations

The lean, orchestrated Zerto move operation works in tandem with nondisruptive background replication to deliver near-zero migration times in just a few clicks. The move operation works for a single workload or an entire data center, saving time and cost for your migration project.

Nondisruptive, automated testing

Test your DR plan or migration without impacting your production environment. Powerful, automated post-move considerations allow you to roll back your migration before fully committing to it with just one click. A DR test takes just three steps for maximum efficiency.

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Zerto for Workload Mobility

What Zerto Offers You

Integrations and Combined Solutions

Get more value out of your existing tech stack by building Zerto operations and integrations via APIs or by combining Zerto capabilities with third-party vendors or HPE solutions.

Automation, integrations, and customization with Zerto APIs

The Zerto full-featured APIs communicate seamlessly with other systems and applications. Zerto provides a rich set of Swagger APIs so Ops teams can build automated operations beyond those available out of the box. And do even more from fast deployments to third-party integrations.

Open-source observability and deeper insights

Observe standard Zerto REST APIs in a visual format with Prometheus and Grafana leveraging Zerto Resilience Observation Console (zROC), a Docker Compose-based software stack. Use APIs to integrate with Zerto Analytics, a free Zerto add-on,and gain deeper insights about the protection state across your environments.

Combine with industry-leading technologies

Combine Zerto with other solutions in your tech stack to create new or expand existing use cases ranging from ransomware resilience and security management to IT consolidation, VM deployment, protection across multiple platforms, and more.

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“ Zerto has improved my organization by allowing us to replicate individual VMs or groups of VMs. It allows flexible protection and recovery of data. It is also easy to integrate with other solutions.”

Linda Kane, Data Analyst, Manufacturing company

“ Don't hesitate. Go out and do it now. Don't wait two years like we did. Push harder in order to be able to get the solution in place, especially since we know it will work better for you. Don't just take, "No," for an answer from senior management.”

Don Cargill, Senior Server Storage Engineer,

MAPFRE Insurance

“ I suggest taking advantage of doing a trial to make sure Zerto meets our needs, and if we have any unique workloads, then talk to the Zerto account team to try to arrange a conversation with someone else who is doing the same thing.”

John Skarja, Technical Analyst, Niagara Health System

“ ...there’s no better way to get started with Zerto than experiencing it firsthand in a hands-on lab. They’re available anytime, with on-demand access to suit your schedule.”

Kevin Cole, Head of Learning & Enablement, Zerto

What Zerto Offers You

Self-serve Evaluation Methods

Zerto offers several ways to learn more about our solution and experience its simplicity and ease of use with various degrees of involvement. This flexibility lets you pick the right option for every step of the evaluation process.

Whenever you’re ready to engage, request a customized demo session or proof of concept.

On-demand demo videos

See how to execute workflows simply and efficiently for designated use cases through short demo videos.

Guided product tour

Get a guided virtual tour of Zerto with a step-by-step approach on specific topics

Self-paced, hands-on labs

Experience the solution and learn about its critical features and functionalities. No download required, no time limit, and no worries about breaking anything. You just need your computer and to choose the lab that matches what you’d like to get done.

Free trial via software download

Download a full-featured version of Zerto for evaluation—free for 14 days—in your own environment so you can run and test use cases specific to your business needs.

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Zerto’s Benefits

For Your Organization

Ability to meet SLAs

During recovery operations when faced with disruption

Over strategic IT consolidation or modernization initiatives

For security patches or software updates/upgrades

Gain visibility and achieve readiness

Monitor your RPOs in real time and trigger alerts

Identify unprotected assets across environments

Plan for the future

Test frequently to train the team effectively

Optimize operations and free up resources

Fewer manual tasks with orchestration and automation

Leveraged tech stack and expanded use cases via API integrations and combined solutions

One solution to manage multiple use cases

Simple, easy to use solution with low learning curve and high empowerment level

For You as a CISO or Security Leader

While Zerto delivers benefits to your organization, it also takes care of you personally.

Less Anxiety

You now know that you can meet your SLAs for recovery operations, high-stake migration projects, software updates, and security patch deployments.

Confidence

Access to frequent, easy testing helps your team achieve the right level of readiness. There’s nothing like practice to bring stress levels down in the midst of chaos, and an effective recovery solution to get through it quickly.

More Control

Get control over the design and simplification of your IT operations.

Satisfaction

Gain more visibility of your environment and understand better where and/or what action is needed.

Feel good

Too many late nights and weekends—and unattainable work-life balance—are a thing of the past for you and your team.

What You Can Do Now

Request a Demo

 Experience Zerto and get access to specialists who can provide specific answers tailored to your situation and challenges.

Inquire about a PoC

In some situations a Zerto-managed proof of concept (PoC) is the best route to validate Zerto in a complex environment and/or very unique use cases.