Zerto Blog

Migrating Workloads to Azure. Easy as 1, 2, 3! Right?  Migrating your workloads and applications to a public cloud like Azure makes a lot of sense. But while adopting the cloud presents several benefits, there are some industry-wide challenges you may face when looking to migrate into Azure.   Does testing equal disruption?  For example, before you ever migrate, you must test and validate your recovery. Yet, testing […]

Digital disruption in healthcare is moving fast. Data in EMR systems, billing systems, telemedicine, care collaboration notes and research studies are growing exponentially, making it challenging to quickly find and tap into the right data to reach the best diagnosis and care plan for the patient. In addition to the sheer volumes of growing data, […]

It’s 10PM… do you know where your backups are? If the ghosts of incidents past come haunting you this Halloween, take comfort in knowing you’re not the only IT pro to have faced sleepless nights from frightening disasters of all kinds. Do any of these spooky tales sound familiar? The end user who haplessly introduced […]

Today Zerto announced important new features and functionality with the release of the 7.5 major update.  We are very excited to partner with Microsoft Azure Storage team to drive the path of innovation and evolution further forward for a wider variety of uses cases to help customers move to Azure through multi-cloud, disaster recovery and migration solutions. Microsoft announced the public preview of incremental snapshots of Azure Managed Disks that Zerto 7.5 leverages. These extended platform […]

Businesses continue to demand an always-on customer experience and that challenges IT professionals to find ways of adopting new technologies such as cloud to better protect a company’s data, reduce capital spend, and do more with existing resources. Essentially, it’s the ever-evolving challenge of moving at the speed of digital business using the right information […]

As everyone knows by now, Zerto is big on the concept of Resilience. So, when Forrester published the Forrester Wave for Data Resiliency Solutions Q3-2019, we took a close look. We were disappointed to find that under the pretense of “data resilience”, Forrester chose to stay behind and focus on legacy backup. Though the data […]

TaxSlayer, a leading online and professional tax and financial company, based in Augusta, GA, strives to make life simpler and less stressful for millions of Americans with their easy-to-use tax preparation software. The information technology team at TaxSlayer is committed to IT resilience as the foundation of exceptional customer experiences. TaxSlayer’s priority to deliver “always-on” […]

A recent IDC and Zerto survey estimates that as many as 50% of organizations could not survive a disaster event, with 91% of respondents experiencing a tech-related business disruption in the past two years. With the regular occurrence of data breaches and cyber-attacks on most people’s radar, the devastating impact that natural disasters can bring, […]

Zerto, a proud sponsor of VMworld, makes its mark with strategic partnerships, new capabilities and the expected energy of its Zertonians.  It’s a wrap! VMworld 2019 San Francisco is over, but we’re still buzzing around Zerto’s exciting news and activities that took place. VMworld’s theme this year was ‘Make Your Mark’, and we believe we met that expectation! Zerto took the bay area by storm, announcing new partnerships and […]

Today at VMworld 2019 Microsoft announced that Azure VMware Solutions would be adding a total of eight regions across the U.S., Western Europe and Asia Pacific by end of year. Zerto is proud to add the Azure VMware Solution (AVS) by CloudSimple as a supported platform for disaster recovery, replication, and workload mobility. Zerto customers […]

For almost 10 years now, Zerto has maintained that the future of backup is continuous, and in over 7,000 Enterprise customer installations, we’ve been using Continuous Data Protection (CDP) in our converged Disaster Recovery and Backup offerings to ensure the lowest, industry-breaking recovery times. There are important differentiators in how Zerto customers utilize CDP that you may want to keep in mind.  Zerto's Continuous Data Protection utilizes proven journaling technology that logs all changes that have occurred for up to 30 […]

With the proliferation of data-driven digital business growing at an exponential pace, so is the pace of cyber security threats and attacks, such as ransomware. In fact, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, the global cost of ransomware is predicted to reach $11.5 billion in 2019. Cyberattacks can cost a company $1.4 Million on average in recovery […]