Zerto,
setting the standard for protection, recovery and migration of data in
cloud and virtualized data centers, today announced a new business
continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) solution in IBM Cloud. The new
solution offers turnkey BC/DR capabilities that protect critical IT
infrastructure, and supports multiple use cases including data center
migrations. Running in IBM Cloud this solution automates all aspects of
disaster recovery for the virtual workload to create an advanced, and
flexible disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) using Zerto Virtual Replication.
Customers
with production workloads running in a virtualized infrastructure can
now achieve application recovery time objective (RTO) of minutes using
the dedicated IBM Cloud infrastructure. Additionally, a recovery point
objective (RPO) of seconds can be achieved to maintain complete control
over DR, with full automation and orchestration and on-demand recovery
and DR testing. Further, usage based pricing eliminates additional
capital costs.
Disaster
recovery requires a significant expense to maintain and operate a
separate data center. With DRaaS, a significant capital expense is
converted to a predictable, low operational cost. With DRaaS based on
Zerto Virtual Replication and the IBM Cloud, customers can realize very
aggressive RTO and RPO that enterprises require to support key drivers
such as regulatory compliance. This turnkey, and highly scalable
offering also reduces the costs of business disruptions associated with
testing, hiring and training a DR experienced workforce, and maintaining
DR.
The
service is now available across IBM Cloud's global footprint of data
centers to enable customers to protect their virtual applications from
on-premises, bare metal servers, database, and virtual machine into the
cloud, as well as protecting their critical applications.
IBM
Cloud delivers fast, easy and automated access to a public, private and
hybrid cloud services that enable companies to lower their overall IT
costs, while increasing agility and productivity. IBM offers a complete
portfolio of cloud services, with over 46 data centers in every major
financial market around the world, supporting a wide range of
applications including big data, analytics, mobile and cognitive.
"For
Oxford Networks' diverse base of Managed IT Service Customers, five 9's
of uptime is not just a target, it is expected. IBM Cloud and Zerto are
strategic enablers to ensuring that customers always have access to
their critical systems and data." -- Alan Marblestone, Director of Product Management, Oxford Networks
"We
are excited to collaborate with IBM since the growth within the
disaster recovery as a service market continues to outstrip many other
cloud segments. The significance of this space is underpinned by the
growing complexity of IT infrastructures and the natural and man-made
threats to them, balanced with a mission critical need to protect them
to ensure uninterrupted business operations. By offering a solution on
one of the world's leading clouds, organizations are able to
significantly improve their business continuity and disaster recovery
capabilities and quickly execute their strategies in ways they were
never capable of before." --
Paul Zeiter, President, Zerto