The State of DR and Cyber Recovery – Part 3: Choosing the Right Disaster Recovery Solution
This post is the third in a series of three that explores some insights from the IDC white paper, sponsored by Zerto— The State of Disaster Recovery and Cyber Recovery, 2024–2025: Factoring in AI¹. In Part 1, we looked at the top reasons for data loss and some ways to address them, while in Part 2 we focused on the top disaster recovery challenges faced by organizations.
In this final post, we will guide you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a DR solution, helping you make an informed choice that aligns with your organization’s goals and ensures robust protection against any potential disaster.
Most Important Decision Criteria When Choosing a DR Solution
Selecting an effective disaster recovery (DR) solution is crucial for ensuring your organization’s resilience and continuity in the face of unexpected disruptions. With a wide array of options available, it can be overwhelming to determine which solution best meets your needs. Key decision criteria such as recovery speed, public cloud support, breadth of solution and ease of use all play significant roles in this decision-making process.
According to this recent IDC white paper, faster recovery means less downtime, better worker productivity, and minimized organizational impact. Granular data recovery means minimal data loss, especially when using continuous data protection capabilities that deliver an RPO measured in seconds. With the combination of data integrity, speed of recovery, and minimal data loss, organizations should never be faced with the need to pay ransom to get their data back.
How Zerto Addresses Key Decision Criteria for Buying a DR Solution
Let’s review how Zerto addresses each one of the most important criteria listed by the surveyed organizations, as shown in the above chart.
Speed of recovery
Solution: Zerto offers industry-leading recovery times with near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs). Real-time replication and automated failover/failback ensure that your data and applications are restored quickly, minimizing downtime and maintaining business continuity.
Public cloud support
Solution: Zerto seamlessly integrates with major public cloud providers such as AWS and Azure. This flexibility allows you to leverage cloud resources for disaster recovery, ensuring scalable and cost-effective solutions that align with your cloud strategy.
Reduced storage costs
Solution: Zerto’s efficient data replication and compression technologies reduce storage requirements, lowering costs. By optimizing storage utilization and eliminating the need for redundant backup hardware, Zerto helps you achieve significant cost savings.
Granularity of recovery
Solution: Zerto provides granular recovery options, allowing you to restore individual files, applications, or entire virtual machines. This flexibility ensures that you can recover exactly what you need, when you need it, reducing the impact of data loss and enhancing operational efficiency.
Purpose-built backup appliance
Solution: Zerto can integrate with purpose-built backup appliances, offering a comprehensive solution for data protection and disaster recovery. This integration enhances the performance and reliability of your DR strategy, ensuring that your data is always secure and readily available.
Simplicity/ease of use
Solution: Zerto’s intuitive interface and automated workflows simplify the management of disaster recovery processes. With minimal manual intervention required, your IT staff can efficiently manage DR operations, freeing up time for other strategic initiatives.
Scalability
Solution: Zerto’s platform is designed to scale with your business. Whether you are protecting a few virtual machines or thousands, Zerto can easily adapt to your growing needs, providing consistent and reliable disaster recovery capabilities.
Breadth of solution
Solution: Zerto offers a comprehensive disaster recovery solution that covers a wide range of environments, including on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures. This breadth of support ensures that all your critical workloads are protected, regardless of where they reside.
Vendor consideration
Solution: Get more with the backing of a leading-edge technology company. Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (HPE), leverages HPE’s portfolio to deliver a unique solution against man-made disasters like ransomware. It blends HPE compute, storage, networking, and Zerto’s software. The Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault—with full air gapping, immutability and ransomware detection—offers a robust and fast cyber recovery solution that gives you a way out of the worst-case scenarios.
By addressing these critical decision criteria, Zerto provides a powerful, versatile, and cost-effective disaster recovery solution that meets the diverse needs of modern businesses.
Read the IDC white paper to access all the insights gained from the Zerto survey, and download the Data Protection Buyers Guide to make sure you are informed and prepared for your current or next buying decision.
1 IDC white paper, sponsored by Zerto—The State of Disaster Recovery and Cyber Recovery, 2024–2025: Factoring in AI— #US52445524, August 2024
Sarah Doherty Senior Product Marketing Manager
