Zerto for CIOs
And IT Executives
Changemaker and Caretaker
As a CIO or IT executive, you are the changemaker who helps drive innovation through digital transformations and new technology initiatives. Considering the current digital and technological landscape, being a head of IT has never been more challenging nor as exciting.
But while you look ahead to your business’s future, it’s important that you continue to adapt your internal IT operations and infrastructure to keep up with both current demands and future needs. Doing this while balancing costs, tech stack complexities, and the allocation of human resources is no small task, especially while ensuring that your organization and infrastructure are compliant with numerous established regulations and emerging standards.
Yet despite these issues and challenges, you continue to find the best solutions through your curiosity, tech savvy, and collaboration skills, allowing your organization to be the best it can be.
Your Focus Is On
Driving digital transformation and business innovation
Aligning IT initiatives and investments with business goals
Improving IT operations and modernizing IT infrastructure
Overseeing data management, analytics, and AI
Ensuring compliance with regulations
Leading and managing the team—resource allocation, hiring, and training
How Zerto Can Help You
Extended Data Protection and Business Continuity
Cloud adoption is essential for organizations implementing digital transformation. But it also means that for each new service or product, you bring to life, you need to ensure they are continuously available to your customers and users.
So, while there are numerous benefits to leveraging cloud computing architecture, it also means IT infrastructures require novel and/or upgraded capabilities for their management and protection.
Managing Complexity
If your business was not created in the cloud, you most likely have legacy IT and on-prem workloads to manage. If your business is cloud-native, it is very likely that you either use more than one cloud or are considering using more than one for risk management purposes. All these options have a level of complexity that must be managed effectively.
Supporting Diverse Environments and Models at Scale
Like many CIOs and IT executives, you may be dealing with a mix of on-premises and cloud workloads, spanning public and private clouds. Your data protection strategy and capabilities must be comprehensive and cover on-prem, hybrid cloud, in-cloud, and even multi-cloud models. To account for this, your data protection must be able scale to match your needs.
Avoiding Lock-ins
As with most businesses, your organization must consider risk management through several lenses. From a financial and strategic standpoint, you don’t want to be dependent on only one cloud provider, technology, or vendor. From an operational perspective, you may want to diversify your deployments to create some redundancies. It’s always a balancing act as more security often translates into more complexity.
Fast Recovery Capabilities
When new services or products emerge from your digital transformation and IT innovation initiatives, they become a part of your business and business continuity plan. These revenue-generating products and services carry an expected quality for service and user experience. To meet these expectations, proper recovery capabilities must be in place to lower downtime, minimize data loss, and maintain the continuity of operations.
What You Need
Data Protection and Recovery Solution Ready for Anything
The range of challenges inherent to digital transformation and IT modernization is significant. Solutions that can address multiple challenges at once should be considered, as they may benefit your organization’s operation, procurement, and overall costs.
In this case, you would need a data protection and recovery solution that can deliver the following:
Fast Recovery with Minimal Data Loss
This is the primary attribute for ensuring overall business continuity. Restoring operations with minimal downtime and data loss after any type of disruption—natural or man-made—is paramount. The ability to do it effectively and efficiently can make a good solution into something great.
Effortless Scalability
It’s normal for the new services or products you produce to start small but grow with success. In these cases, as you scale your infrastructure to meet growing demand, you want your data protection and recovery capabilities to scale at the same pace and without hassle.
Deployment and Implementation Flexibility
You want your data protection and recovery capabilities to adapt to your infrastructure and cover more than one type of environment or implementation. Stay away from specialized solutions that feature many caveats and exceptions.
Simplification
Many new data protection and recovery solutions come with dedicated learning curves, complexities, unique requirements, and maintenance tasks. Instead, look for solutions that deliver ease of use to your staff, require minimal training, and free up time with automation.
What Zerto Offers You
Rapid, Efficient, and Effective Recovery
Zerto enables recovery from any disruption with the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs in the industry, dramatically limiting data loss and downtime thanks to always-on replication and journal-based recovery.
What Zerto Offers You
On-Prem, Cloud-Ready Protection and Recovery
Whether you want to protect your workloads and applications stored on-premises, in the cloud, or through managed service providers, Zerto delivers recovery with minimal downtime and data loss.
What Zerto Offers You
Easy-to-Manage Scale-Out Architecture
Because Zerto’s continuous data protection is software based with no guest-host requirements, agents, or an additional hardware footprint, it can be deployed and managed easily, no matter how fast the infrastructure expands.
What Zerto Offers You
Operational Benefits and ROI
Zerto's benefits go beyond its technical capabilities and features. Zerto is cost-effective, efficient, and beneficial for multiple operational areas.
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Balancing Cost, Resources While Meeting Business Goals, Timelines, and Demands
Whether during a M&A, or as part of an IT optimization effort, as a CIO, 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
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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.
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.
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Managing Regulations in a Cohesive Way
Ensuring that your organization’s software products, services, and overall IT infrastructure comply with the multitude of new and shifting regulations is paramount.
Besides finding the right balance between compliance and innovation, your compliance efforts must have some level of coordination and alignment with your organization’s general counsel and CISO, as both teams also deal with IT compliance and contribute to making the organization compliant overall.
Translating Regulations into IT Requirements
Establishing a strong collaboration with your organization’s legal and compliance function is essential. This team’s responsibility extends to compliance with laws and regulations in general, including areas related to technology, cybersecurity, and data privacy. They can help identify regulations that demand action from IT.
Sharing Responsibility and Adopting Common Objectives
Both the security and IT Ops teams share the responsibility of keeping the operations running during a cyberattack or another type of disruption. Most regulations focus on mitigating and minimizing the effects of these types of events.
Security and IT Ops teams have other common goals as well, such as reducing the number of vendors and solutions used and optimizing staff workloads.
Demonstrating Compliance
Building architecture and establishing processes that enable compliance is only one part of the equation; you also need to show that it delivers. Testing and reporting on your cyber recovery and disaster recovery plans is the best way to build readiness and demonstrate that you can meet compliance requirements.
What You Need
A Comprehensive DR Solution for SecOps, IT Ops, and Security
Meeting compliance for cyber and IT resilience is a multi-faceted endeavor. It requires finding vendors and solutions that can deliver against SecOps shared responsibilities and goals as well as meet the dedicated needs for each respective team.
Here are some of the key elements you want to find in such a multi-role solution. And the more it combines effectively, the higher your chances of reducing complexity and streamline operations.
Rapid Recovery with Minimal Downtime and Data Loss
Get recovery operations for both disaster and cyberattack scenarios that leverage shared workflows and provide fast RTOs and low RPOs.
Ease of Use and Automation
Find a solution that can deliver against each team’s common goals for efficiency, simplification, automation, ease of use, and integrations.
Non-disruptive Testing
Test and report your DR and cyber recovery plans. Cover IT Ops testing requirements for patch management as well as application updates and upgrades.
Integrating Security Features and Capabilities
Select vendors and solutions with strong security features that guarantee the integrity of the entire infrastructure. Prioritize solutions that add to your security capabilities and can integrate with your security solutions such as SIEM or SOAR.
What Zerto Offers You
Fast Recovery for Disaster and
Cyber Recovery
Zerto enables organizations to recover from ransomware—and other natural or man-made disasters—with the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs in the industry.
This helps meet regulatory requirements for mitigating and minimizing disruptions to business continuity in various industries.
What Zerto Offers You
Nondisruptive Testing
Whether conducting patch management, development testing, or simply testing your DR or CR plan, Zerto lets you test without impacting your production environment, allowing you to test whenever you want, as often as you want.
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On-Demand Cloning for Testing
Easily spin up your environment or applications to create self-serve, high-fidelity clones to test and validate security patches or test software and application updates or upgrades.
No Impact on Production
Since testing occurs in its own separate sandbox, it has no impact on replication or protection status and can be performed at any time.
Simple, Automated Failover Testing
Test failover in only three steps. With just a few clicks, run a failover simulation for your entire datacenter or just a single application. Customize your test using APIs and empower any team member to safely and confidently run a test.
Powerful Post-Test Operations
Generate failover test reports that can be used for compliance auditing. Alternatively, any data generated during a test can be easily and securely deleted.
“As businesses continue to focus on resilience and continuous availability, the real-time ransomware detection capabilities offered by Zerto 10 are increasingly important to both maintaining an effective security posture and minimizing the risk of data loss and downtime.”
Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
What Zerto Offers You
Continuous Real-Time Detection & Hardening
The continuous data protection built into Zerto enables constant, real-time ransomware detection at no additional cost. This capability, combined with the hardening of the solution, makes Zerto an easy addition to the cybersecurity team’s arsenal.
What Zerto Offers You
A Cyber Vault for the Most Stringent Regulations
Cyber insurance policies, local and federal regulatory bodies, and industry associations are increasingly requiring fully separated cyber vaults that cannot be infected by ransomware.
The Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault is a last-resort solution that guarantees a fast recovery using true air gaps, immutable copies, and industry-leading hardware from HPE and Zerto.
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Zerto’s Benefits
For Your Organization
Support for Major Strategic Initiatives and Regulations
Unlock Operational Efficiencies and Free Up Time
Enable Flexibility and Alignment
For You as a CIO or IT Executive Leader
While Zerto delivers benefits to your organization, it also takes care of you personally.
Less Anxiety
Rest easy knowing your team can deliver on high-stake migration projects, demonstrate compliance where applicable, and deal with both minor and major disruptions on new and legacy services.
Peace of Mind
The proper level of readiness from your team can be achieved thanks to access to frequent and easy testing. There’s nothing like practice, practice, practice.
Greater Satisfaction
You are executing your efforts to streamline operations, using fewer vendors, and reducing your future technology debt with a future-proof solution.
Confidence
Those simplification efforts are going to reduce costs and free up time for your team to refocus on more strategic initiatives while feeling less stretched out in their day-to-day.
Sense of Achievement
As you align with the security team and its leader on how to deal with and recover from cyberattacks, your organization grows to be more cohesive and integrated.
What You Can Do Now
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