Can Your Disaster Recovery Keep Up? Part 3 – Driving Resilience Through Flexibility
In disaster recovery, resilience is the ultimate goal. We’ve explored the critical roles that speed and integrity play in recovery, but there’s one more critical piece to the equation: flexibility.
True resilience doesn’t just rely on how quickly or how precisely you can recover; it depends on your ability to adapt to any situation, any environment, and any challenge. In today’s hybrid and multi-cloud world, flexibility is key to unlocking agility and ensuring business continuity.
The overlooked factor in resilience
The ability to adapt is a hallmark of resilience. As businesses move toward hybrid and multi-cloud environments, a rigid recovery solution becomes a liability. Modern disaster recovery must provide the following:
- Cloud freedom: Staying agile means being able to recover across public, private, and hybrid clouds without added complexity.
- Scalability: A solution that grows with your business and adjusts to evolving demands.
- Interoperability: Seamless integration with your existing tools and systems, minimizing disruption during a crisis.
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers on these fronts with unparalleled flexibility, ensuring your recovery strategy works where, when, and how you need it.
Why flexibility is the cornerstone of resilience
Modern IT environments are anything but static. Businesses are operating across on-premises infrastructure, public and private clouds, and increasingly hybrid setups. Add to this the evolving threat landscape, compliance demands, and the pressure to innovate faster than ever before. Rigid disaster recovery (DR) strategies simply can’t keep up.
The risks of inflexibility:
- Vendor lock-in: Being tied to a single platform limits your ability to pivot during a crisis.
- Downtime during transitions: Moving workloads or modernizing infrastructure becomes a painful, time-consuming process.
- Missed opportunities: Inability to adapt quickly means falling behind competitors who can.
Flexibility in action
Flexibility isn’t a buzzword; it’s a measurable advantage. Flexibility in your disaster recovery strategy means you can recover:
- Anywhere
Whether your environment is on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid, flexibility means the freedom to recover where it makes the most sense for your business. With Zerto, you’re not limited by infrastructure constraints or vendor requirements. - Anytime
Disasters don’t wait for a convenient time, and neither should your recovery. Flexibility gives you the confidence to recover when needed, whether it’s during planned migrations or unplanned outages. - Without compromise
Flexibility ensures that your data remains intact, your recovery is seamless, and your operations continue without disruptions. It’s about removing barriers and empowering your team to act decisively.
The freedom to choose
At Zerto, we’ve built flexibility into the very core of our solution. This adaptability is particularly valuable as the IT landscape evolves, with major industry shifts like Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware prompting organizations to explore new options.
For VMware customers grappling with uncertainty around pricing, packaging, and support, Zerto offers a simple yet powerful alternative. Our solution supports seamless migrations to your choice of hypervisors or cloud environments while maintaining industry-leading recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). Whether it’s migrating off VMware entirely or testing a multi-cloud strategy, Zerto enables you to make the switch while reducing the risks of downtime that often accompany transitions. Zerto offers features like these to empower businesses to recover:
- Platform agnostic: Recover to, from, between, or within cloud providers or on-premises infrastructure, whether it’s AWS, Azure, or your private data center.
- Seamless workload mobility: Use disaster recovery not just for emergencies but for planned migrations, cloud adoption, or even data center consolidations, with minimal downtime.
- Non-disruptive testing: Run recovery tests whenever you need to, ensuring compliance and readiness without impacting day-to-day operations.
- Continuous data protection: Ensure your RPOs and RTOs remain unmatched, regardless of your environment.
Flexibility in the real world
Take, for example, a multinational textile company, TenCate Protective Fabrics. They were in the middle of modifying their cloud strategy and needed to move from AWS to Microsoft Azure. By leveraging Zerto, they were able to migrate their workloads and move their data from their regional manufacturing sites to a horizontal global model, while achieving six-second RPOs.
Resilience through choice
Flexibility isn’t just about responding to today’s challenges; it’s about preparing for the unknowns of tomorrow. With Zerto, you’re not confined by rigid architectures, vendor lock-in, or outdated solutions. Instead, you gain the freedom to choose how you recover, giving your business the agility to adapt and the confidence to succeed.
Ask yourself:
- Can your current recovery strategy keep up with the pace of change?
- Are you able to pivot to new environments or platforms without downtime or risk?
- Do you have the freedom to choose your recovery path, or are you locked into one way of operating?
With Zerto, the power of choice is yours. Are you ready to take control?
Martin Oderinde Product Marketing Manager
