M&A Activities and IT Optimization with Zerto
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How Zerto Can Help You to

Support M&A Activities and

IT Optimization

CHALLENGE

Balancing Cost, Resources While Meeting Business Goals, Timelines, and Demands

Whether during a M&A, or as part of an IT optimization effort, you must ensure that the organization’s IT infrastructure, resources and staff are optimized to deliver against various business goals, business continuity requirements, and your budget.


Another challenge in the context of M&As and divestitures is maintaining service continuity. This must be done to minimize disruptions to business operations when there are shifts in the infrastructure and the IT team in general.

All of this can be an ongoing struggle to tame complexities, improve operations, reduce costs of technology debt, and get the most out of your IT investments. And this can be reflected in these three areas:



Migrations

Whether it is about IT consolidation efforts to support M&As or for optimization purposes, having effective migration capabilities is essential. However, due to the very heterogeneous nature of most IT infrastructures, it is hard to find one tool to cover most migration needs while shrinking increasingly stringent migration completion timelines.

Data Protection and Recovery

For both M&A activities and day-to-day operations, data protection and recovery capabilities—along with staff and process readiness—must ensure the resilience of your IT infrastructure and its ability to maintain business operations in the face of disruption, natural or man-made. These capabilities must be continuously reassessed.

Complexity Management

Redundant and/or legacy systems, applications, and datacenters sprout year by year, driven by M&A activities or technological evolution. Reducing the number of vendors, providers, platforms alongside consolidating infrastructure components (servers , storage, entire datacenters, cloud deployments) is key to deliver operational efficiencies and better resource utilization.

What You Need

Prevention and Recovery in One Solution

These are the three pillars that are going to make your modernization efforts easier and deliver your M&A on time, without adding complexity to your operations.

Shortened and Safe Migrations

Shorten the time needed to move your workloads with a solution that can run migrations quickly, handle the size of your environment, and protect your workloads during the move.

Scalable Data Protection and Fast Recovery

Meet or beat business continuity SLAs no matter where your workloads are (whether it be on-prem or in the cloud) and no matter what size environment you have or will have.

Ease of Use and Operation

Improve operational efficiency by reducing overhead and required training with a solution that delivers easy deployment, ease of use, and simplified workflows and integrations. Add support for multiple use cases in one solution.

What Zerto Offers You

Fast, Flexible, and Safe Migrations

Zerto’s unique CDP helps move workloads and applications quickly and safely. This translates into reduced completion timelines for migration efforts, and peace of mind knowing even large-scale migrations will run smoothly

Migration with Minimal Downtime

Whether you are relocating a single workload or an entire datacenter, Zerto’s orchestrated move operation works in tandem with nondisruptive background replication to deliver near-zero migration times with just a few clicks.

Hassle-Free Migrations To, Between, and from the Cloud

Whether you are moving to the cloud—through re-hosting (lift and shift), re-platforming (lift, reshape, and shift) or re-factoring—moving between cloud providers, or executing some cloud repatriation to regain some control, Zerto orchestrated and automated workflows can make your move hassle-free.

Error-Proof Migrations, Rollback Safely if Needed

Before committing to a move, test migrated VMs to ensure everything works. If there are any issues, easily revert to your initial state with the push of a button.

Zerto for Migrations

“The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move. It can Re-IP at the same time. This is something very useful for us.”

Sr Infrastructure Engineer, Financial Services firm

“The auto-connect feature is valuable because we can set the amount of time that we delay before committing a move from one location to another, giving application teams time to validate that the move went well and everything is working before we commit those changes. That gives us the ability to roll back to the same point we were at before we shut things down, if needed."

Senior Analyst, IS Infrastructure, Energy/Utilities company

“In the old days, during data center swaps, it used to take days to move our workload environments over, whereas now, it literally takes an hour for hundreds of servers to migrate. Literally, in under a minute, an app stack can move down and up in a new data center. It is reflected in the uptime support to our customers. Our company is very happy with the product."

Engineer, Financial Services firm

“The service levels we are delivering to the business we never thought would be possible. It really helps me sleep at night. I know the application will be available in five minutes.”

Kevin Jackson, Senior Administrator,

Hapo Community Credit Union

“The most important thing to me is Zerto's ability to deliver continuous protection for all data without any issues or incidents. Zerto is a rock-solid product in terms of protection.”

Deputy Head of IT Infrastructure, Financial Services firm

“However, with Zerto's automation, we can now recover within seconds—five, ten, or twenty seconds from the point of the outage. We can bring systems back online automatically and at a significantly faster pace than our previous manual approach allowed.”


Rodney Barnhardt, Server Administrator,

Construction company

What Zerto Offers You

Scale-Out Data Protection with Streamlined Operations

Zerto enables organizations to rapidly recover from any disruption, dramatically limiting data loss and downtime thanks to its unique continuous data protection engine.

Scale-out Replication

Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication is software based with no guest-host requirements, agents, or additional hardware footprint, making it easily deployed and managed, no matter how fast the infrastructure expands.

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Enjoy the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs with Zerto CDP and its continuous stream of recovery checkpoints to recover from its journal.

Orchestration and Automation

Recover entire sites, applications, VMs, folders, and files in just a few clicks. Simply select a checkpoint and let the simple, automated Zerto workflows do the rest.

DR On-Premises, to the Cloud, Within the Cloud, as a Service

Zerto can be used in all types of DR plans, whether it’s on-premises, through an MSP for DRaaS, or leveraging the public cloud—AWS or Azure—for your cloud DR or in-cloud DR.

Zerto Continuous Data Protection
Zerto Disaster Recovery

What Zerto Offers You

Ease of Use and Simplicity for Migrations and Disaster Recovery

Achieve operational efficiencies with Zerto. Simplify your tech stack and reduce the number of vendors and tools needed to meet your data protection, recovery, and migration needs.

Free up time for your team with simple and easy to use Zerto UI and workflows.

One Solution for DR and Migrations

Use a single solution for DR and migration. The CDP engine, supported by powerful automation and orchestration capabilities, enables effective and efficient migrations, scalable data protection, and fast recovery operations.

Quick Time to Value

Zerto is easy to deploy, configure, and manage. No matter the task, Zerto gets to work and delivers value quickly.

More Coverage, Less Time in Training

Intuitive UI and automated workflows make Zerto easy to master. This accessibility equates to less overhead and time spent learning Zerto, resulting in better coverage with multiple individuals being able to easily operate it.

Easy Path from Migration to DR

Your immediate need may just be about dealing with migration activities. There is a Zerto license only for that use case. However, once you’ve experienced the power of Zerto CDP, chances are you’ll want to get further, and that’s easy to do whenever the time is right for you.

Zerto Migration License

“It is very easy to use, so we do not need to spend extra time training engineers on how to use it. All of our engineers were able to start using Zerto immediately.”

Deputy Head of IT Infrastructure, Financial Services firm

“Zerto is way better than other products. Installation is done with the click of a button. Everything happens in the background. You do not have to worry about it."

Global Lead Infrastructure, Manufacturing company

“Moreover, Zerto's support for on-premises to cloud replication is invaluable. We've leveraged this capability to replicate all systems to the cloud, establishing a robust disaster recovery solution. Zerto has proven to be an effective cloud migration and disaster recovery planning tool."

Cloud Disaster Recovery Manager, Consumer Goods company

More Resources on this Topic

Dive deeper into some of the topics covered here.

Migrations

Continuous Data Protection

Disaster Recovery

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