Zerto’s innovative, hypervisor-based replication is a technology developed to provide a true enterprise class, yet fully virtual-aware disaster recovery solution, to protect virtualized, mission-critical applications. This document outlines the fundamental differences between Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication and other current and legacy technologies.

Compared Technologies

The current and legacy disaster recovery solutions compared in this document include:

• Zerto Hypervisor-based Replication

• Array-based Replication with and without SRM

• Host / Guest-based Replication

• Snapshot-based Replication

• VMware Site Recovery Manager with vSphere Replication

Zerto protects virtualized applications with the same robust and effective recovery previously available only with complex and expensive array based replication solutions. With Zerto you get:

•         Scalability
•         Ease of management
•         A Hardware agnostic solutions

Zerto Offsite Backup in the Cloud

What is Offsite Backup?

Offsite Backup is a new paradigm in data protection that combines hypervisor-based replication with longer retention. This greatly simplifies data protection for IT organizations. The ability to leverage the data at the disaster recovery target site or in the cloud for VM backup eliminates the impact on production workloads.

Why Cloud Backup?

• Offsite Backup combines replication and long retention in a new way
• The repository can be located in public cloud storage, a private cloud, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
• Copies are saved on a daily, weekly and monthly schedule.
• The data volumes and configuration information are included to allow VM backups to be restored on any compatible platform, cloud or otherwise.

• Communication: Maintain clear, and regular communication with everyone.
• Scoping: Understand what makes up the application. Get rid of the unknowns to ensure nothing breaks.
• Ownership and permissions: Who owns the server and application and who will test and validate pre and post migration?
• Priority: Are there other projects in your way?
• Organization: Checklists and spreadsheets: How are you tracking all of this?
• Execution: How is the migration happening? How will the servers and data be moved?
• Contingency: If something goes wrong, how do I back out and reschedule if necessary?
• Tracking: Prepare for change. Track what changes need to occur on machines, applications, and infrastructure.
• Data Hygiene: Cleanup the source environment

• How to evaluate replication technologies
• Measuring the cost of downtime
• How to test your Disaster Recovery plan
• Reasons why backup isn’t Disaster Recovery
• Tips for leveraging the cloud
• Mitigating IT threats like ransomware
  

With so many organizations looking to find ways to embrace the public cloud without compromising the security of their data and applications, a hybrid cloud strategy is rapidly becoming the preferred method of efficiently delivering IT services.

This guide aims to provide you with an understanding of the driving factors behind why the cloud is being adopted en-masse, as well as advice on how to begin building your own cloud strategy.

Topics discussed include:
•    Why Cloud?
•    Getting There Safely
•    IT Resilience in the Hybrid Cloud
•    The Power of Microsoft Azure and Zerto

You’ll find out how, by embracing the cloud, organizations can achieve true IT Resilience – the ability to withstand any disruption, confidently embrace change and focus on business.