Zerto Introduces the General Availability of New Features and Functionality with the Release of Zerto 7.5 Azure Update

Zerto is delighted to introduce the general availability of new features and functionality with the release of Zerto 7.5 Azure Platform Update.  Zerto has partnered with the Microsoft Azure Storage Team to enable support for Incremental Snapshots of Azure Managed Disks. When customers choose to upgrade, they will realize huge value from the pursuit of pure performance, robust service levels and rationalization of risk reduction to push the limits of what is possible during the paradigm shift to cloud.   

As customers are migrating and developing their cloud strategy, Zerto 7.5 provides the following for anyone moving to Azure: 

• Azure Managed Disks:  Zerto integration supports failback from Azure Managed Disks both to and from the cloud (Premium SSD, Standard SSD and Standard HDD), with short SLAs and high performance for workloads migrated to Azure or for disaster recovery/IT resilience strategy. 
• Azure Cloud Native Scale-Out:  Zerto’s integration supports ongoing replication as well as recovery workflows, enabling increased Recovery Time Objective (RTO) performance, recoverability and simpler management for enterprise workloads at scale with Azure scale sets. 
• Azure Cloud Mobility Between Regions:  Migrating from Zone to Zone or ‘lift and shift’ from one region to another can be achieved with ease and simplicity via Zerto’s 7.5 integration with Microsoft Azure. 
• Azure Managed Service Identities:  Zerto and Microsoft Azure users can now authenticate to Azure services and keep their credentials secure via the Microsoft Managed Service Identity (MSI). 

Microsoft recently announced the release of incremental snapshots feature of the Azure Managed Disks that Zerto leverages for the new failback functionality. This extended platform capability is now Generally Available (GA) for Azure customers in: 

Americas: West Central US, West US, West US 2, East US, East US 2, South Central US, North Central US, Central US, Canada Central, Canada East, Mexico Central and Brazil South regions. 

Europe: North Europe, West Europe, France Central, France South, UK South, UK West, Germany West Central, Germany North, Switzerland North, Switzerland West, Norway West, Norway East and Spain Central regions.  

Asia-Pacific: East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia Central, Australia Central 2, Australia East, Australia Southeast, Central India, South India, West India, Japan East, Japan West, Korea Central and Korea South regions. 

Middle East and Africa: South Africa North, South Africa West, UAE Central, UAE North, Israel Central and Qatar Central regions. 

In addition, global roll out of all public regions is expected to be finalized and announced by Microsoft sometime in March 2020.   

According to Microsoft’s website, “Incremental snapshots provide a unique capability available only in Azure Managed Disks enabling backup and disaster recovery solutions. It allows you to get the changes between two snapshots of the same disk, thus copying only data that has changed between two snapshots, reducing time and cost for backup and disaster recovery.” 

In order to learn more about the GA of the new Azure Managed Disks Incremental Snapshots customers should refer to Microsoft’s blog.  

Zerto will be updating the status of the Microsoft’s GA with additional Azure regions as Microsoft makes that information available.  Therefore, please note that the information disclosed here in is subject to revision and amendment without prior notification.  

Customers who would like to take advantage of Azure Managed Disks running on the GA regions are advised to make sure they have established network connection with above regions and refer to Microsoft blog for the latest. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Jake.Kodak@zerto.com or Jill.Lewis@zerto.com