Disaster Recovery

Overview In the event of a disaster that disrupts your business, the time it takes to recover your systems may be the difference between thousands or millions of dollars of lost revenue and productivity. In some cases, disruptions may even affect emergency services or utilities necessary for our health and well-being. Recovering quickly is crucial […]

By Keith Taylor, Zerto SDR Test your DR or Test Not, There is No Try… May the 4th be With You… In honor of this year’s Star Wars day, we thought we’d take a quick look at the importance of regularly testing your DR solution – just in case the empire does decide to strike […]

By Joshua Stenhouse, Zerto Technical Marketing Manager In the final blog post of this series ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) on Zerto 4.0 support for Microsoft Hyper-V series I will cover cross—hypervisor replication for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. In order to describe the processes involved with cross-hypervisor replication I am going to […]

Love is in the air once again as we all recover from this past weekend’s Valentine’s Day. Last year we decided to go Shakespearean and share a sonnet about our love for DR. This year instead of back in time, we thought it would be fun to use some far-east influences. Enjoy these haikus that […]

By Brendan Foye, Zerto Enterprise Account Executive In today’s social media age, solution providers have the ability to get their company messaging to more users than ever, quicker than ever. For many start-ups or even legacy solution providers, social media is now a primary tool used to market their solution. Many claims are made about […]

This post was contributed by Joshua Stenhouse, Zerto’s UK Sales Engineer. In my role as a Sales Engineer at Zerto, I often get asked about testing disaster recovery. Testing is one of the most complex aspects of disaster recovery, and so it’s clear why so many companies I speak to test their DR solution once […]

By Joshua Stenhouse, Zerto Technical Evangelist When calculating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of traditional storage based replication, for the protection of virtualized environments, there are many considerations that are often overlooked when comparing this to hypervisor-based replication. In this post I will cover some of the main things to look out for and […]

Overview Data has become as important a resource as infrastructure and physical assets are to organizations. Data loss can cost an organization thousands or even millions of dollars. To minimize data loss, organizations turn to disaster recovery solutions, which focus on recovery point objectives recovering as much data as possible during a disaster. In this […]

When it comes to data storage and management, replication is a common technique used to ensure availability and protection. Data replication involves creating copies of data and storing them in multiple locations so that they can be accessed even if one of the storage locations fails or becomes unavailable. This makes it a primary technology for […]

By Joshua Stenhouse, Zerto Technical Evangelist   Snapshots are often used to replicate Virtual Machines (VMs) from a specific point in time and to maintain multiple recovery points in order to recover from a disaster. Snapshots can be performed at the VM level or at the Storage Area Network (SAN) level. VM level snapshots are […]