Zerto,
setting the standard for disaster recovery in virtualised and cloud
environments, today announced that its customer the Liverpool Heart and
Chest Hospital has been awarded “Best Virtualisation for Disaster
Recovery” at the Best of VMworld Europe 2014 User Awards, which took
place in Barcelona this week.
The hospital, which is a major specialist cardiothoracic facility that
performs 60,000 outpatient appointments and 12,000 inpatient procedures
every year, used Zerto for an innovative project that delivered
non-disruptive disaster recovery testing and simple installation,
together with automated failover, failback, recovery and testing to meet
aggressive service levels and minimise the impact of DR processes on
patient care.
The judges of the fifth annual Best of VMworld Europe awards assessed
the entries and selected the winners based on overall innovation,
systems performance improvement, cost reduction, easing the management
burden, new use in the market and improved efficiencies and business
processes.
The awards, hosted by Computer Weekly, SearchServerVirtualization.com
and LeMag IT, covered virtualisation and server consolidation, desktop
virtualisation, hybrid cloud computing, disaster recovery and a private
cloud computing project.
“Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital is a great example of how our
technology can help organisations protect their mission critical IT
infrastructure without having to compromise or dramatically modify
established processes,” says Ziv Kedem, CEO and co-founder at Zerto,
“The team at the hospital deserve all the credit and we would like to
thank the judges for recognising the innovation demonstrated by the
project and its clear benefits.”
The implementation uses a Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM), which plugs
directly into the hospital’s VMware vCenter management software to
manage replication for its entire vSphere domain to keep track of
applications and information in motion, in real time. The advantages of
the virtual replication solution include a completely hardware-agnostic
approach allowing the hospital to replicate from any source storage to
any target storage. In addition, instead of doing bandwidth hogging
snapshots, the solution replicates only what is needed as each virtual
machine writes new data. Also, as the replication is continuous, the new
information is compressed and moves over the network just as it is
created, significantly reducing bandwidth requirements and avoiding the
any application slowdown.