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Can Your Disaster Recovery Keep Up? Part 2 – Achieving True Resilience in Recovery

March 6, 2025
Business & IT Resilience
Disaster Recovery
Est. Reading Time: 4 minutes

In our first blog, Can Your Disaster Recovery Keep Up? Part 1 – The Need for Speed, we explored the critical role of speed in disaster recovery (DR). While speed is undeniably important, it’s only part of the solution. True resilience goes beyond speed to ensure seamless, comprehensive recovery.

Speed Is Only Part of the Equation: Achieving True Resilience in Recovery

When disaster strikes, every second matters. Speed is essential, but it alone isn’t enough. True resilience, the kind that protects your business, reputation, and future, demands more than just a fast recovery; it requires the ability to recover with precision, confidence, and agility, no matter what the crisis.

This is where many organizations stumble. They focus exclusively on RPOs and RTOs, without realizing that speed is just one piece of the puzzle. The question isn’t just “How fast can we recover?” but also “Can we recover securely and flexibly?” because a recovery riddled with gaps or guesswork is no recovery at all.

The Full Equation for Resilience

Resilience is the ability to recover in a way that keeps your business running without compromise. Think of it as a triad:

  • Speed: Yes, it’s critical. A slow recovery can mean financial loss, reputational damage, and frustrated customers.
  • Integrity: Recovering quickly is meaningless if the data you recover is corrupted, incomplete, or untrustworthy.
  • Flexibility: The digital landscape is constantly evolving, and your recovery solution must adapt to new challenges, environments, and threats without breaking stride.

Speed alone gets you out of the starting blocks; resilience keeps you in the race.

The Danger of Recovery Gaps

Many DR solutions promise speed but fail to address the critical need for data integrity. Snapshot-based recovery, for example, might restore systems to a point, hours or even days before the disaster occurred. But what about the data created in those missing hours? What about the transactions, customer communications, and operational insights lost in the process?

This isn’t just a technical issue; it’s a business risk that can:

  • Erode customer trust: Imagine telling your customers their data is gone because your recovery solution wasn’t up to par.
  • Leave you vulnerable to compliance fines: Regulatory bodies won’t accept “recovery gaps” as an excuse for missing or mishandled data.
  • Expose your business to further attacks: Incomplete recoveries can leave back doors open for adversaries.

True resilience means recovering with confidence, knowing that every byte of data is accounted for, and every system is operational.

Achieving Resilience with Zerto

At Zerto, we understand that speed is only part of the equation. That’s why our solution is designed to provide:

  • Continuous data protection: Real-time replication that reduces recovery gaps and provides data integrity.
  • Automated orchestration: Simplify recovery with tools that handle the complexity for you.
  • Cloud agility: Recover to, from, and between cloud providers with the same level of speed and trust.
  • Proactive testing: Automated and orchestrated, nondisruptive failover testing verifies your recovery plan works flawlessly when it’s needed most.

Unlike competitors that force you to choose between speed, integrity, or flexibility, Zerto delivers it all so you can recover quickly and comprehensively.

Resilience in Action

One of our customers, a global textile technology company, faced a ransomware attack that threatened their data and operations. With Zerto, they restored systems in minutes, with only 10 seconds of data loss. In a prior attack before using Zerto, they lost 12 hours of data and took two weeks to recover.

The True Cost of Incomplete Recovery

So, you might be asking yourself, why don’t organizations choose the full equation for resilience (speed, integrity, and flexibility)? Organizations that rely on outdated recovery methods often focus on the up-front cost of modernizing their DR solutions. But what’s the cost of not modernizing?

  • Lost revenue: Every minute of downtime chips away at your bottom line.
  • Reputational damage: Customers have little patience for companies that can’t stay operational in a crisis.
  • Regulatory penalties: Compliance failures can result in hefty fines, especially in industries like health care and finance.

Build Resilience for the Future

Modernized DR looks beyond just speed. It’s about ensuring your business can withstand any crisis, recover with confidence, and adapt to whatever comes next. With Zerto, you’re not just getting fast recovery; you’re getting comprehensive recovery.

So, ask yourself:

  • Is your recovery solution built for resilience (speed, integrity, and flexibility)?
  • Can it adapt to today’s complex, hybrid environments?
  • Are you ready to thrive, not just survive, when disaster strikes?

With Zerto, the answer is yes.

Check out Zerto’s hands-on labs or get in touch with us today!

Martin Oderinde
Product Marketing Manager

Martin Oderinde is an established marketing professional, with experience in technology as well as oil and gas. Prior to his current role at Zerto, Martin served as the Small & Medium Business Product Marketing Manager at HPE. Martin graduated from Baylor University and has earned his Masters in Marketing from the University of Houston.