Zerto, setting the standard for protection,
recovery and migration of data in cloud and virtualized datacenters,
today announced that Zerto Virtual Replication for Amazon Web Services
(AWS) will be previewed at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.
Zerto Virtual Replication is the first hypervisor-based replication
solution to offer enterprise-class data protection and workload mobility
from on-premise VMware environments to AWS, extending hypervisor-based
replication to the public cloud. Zerto supports continuous replication
of workloads irrespective of hypervisor, storage or cloud.
By
adding support for AWS, Zerto extends enterprise-class DR to the public
cloud, a critical capability for enterprises implementing datacenters
that mix on-premise and public cloud elements - known as hybrid clouds.
Zerto will release its latest version of the software, supporting
application-consistent, continuous replication from VMware vSphere or
Microsoft Hyper-V to AWS, in Q1 2015. Zerto Virtual Replication
customers will soon be able to leverage AWS in two ways - for VM
recoverability in AWS where the machines actually run in AWS, and
long-term retention of VMware VMs using AWS simply as a target for
offsite backup.
"Zerto
Virtual Replication to AWS is the next step in our Cloud Fabric
strategy, which allows customers to select their IT infrastructure based
solely on their business needs, regardless of underlying storage,
hypervisor or cloud provider," said Ziv Kedem,
Zerto CEO and co-founder. "In the future, Zerto Virtual Replication
will offer support for more platforms to ensure that if business
circumstances change, the data protection solution doesn't have to,
enabling customers to future-proof their DR investment."
Specific features of Zerto Virtual Replication for AWS include:
- Storage and hypervisor agnostic replication - any storage can be
used at the source and target site, and any hypervisor, including from
VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V to AWS
- Virtual Protection Groups - consistency groups that ensure
applications with multiple VMs can be recovered effectively with
write-order fidelity
- Manage all disaster recovery and data mobility operations across
VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments as well as AWS from a
single user interface
- Continuous data protection - no snapshots - to minimize impact on the production environment
- Dramatically lower costs for enterprise-class DR with the ability to leverage AWS
- Automated recovery of VMs in AWS
- The use of AWS as backup or DR target for VMware VMs
- Automated orchestration of disaster recovery processes for application consistency
Zerto
Virtual Replication has disrupted the traditional hardware-centric
market for disaster recovery and migration of applications. More than
700 enterprise customers in 29 countries use Zerto Virtual Replication
in their production environments to protect, recover and migrate data
and production applications. In addition, Zerto dominates the market for
cloud-based recovery and replication and has become the de-facto
standard for recovery and migration in cloud environments, with more
than 150 Cloud Providers offering services powered by Zerto Virtual
Replication.
Attendees of AWS re:Invent can see live demos of Zerto Virtual Replication to AWS at booth #450.