Inc. magazine today revealed that Zerto is No. 1567 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. This ranking places Zerto within the top third of the most successful companies in the United States, representing the American economy's most dynamic segment-its independent small businesses. Microsoft, Dell, Domino's Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.

"Each year we're included on the Inc. 5000 list is more gratifying than the last. It's one thing to achieve success in this industry but to be able maintain it is a testament to the tremendous work of our team and the value our product provides to our customers," said Ziv Kedem, CEO and co-founder, Zerto. "The recognition validates our efforts to provide a simple, scalable IT resilience platform built on a foundation of continuous data protection."

Zerto has disrupted the backup and disaster recovery markets by fundamentally altering the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. Traditional backup and disaster recovery products and tools do not meet the speed, performance, availability or data retention expectations dictated by businesses today. Zerto's vision and actualization of converging backup and disaster recovery eliminates the legacy of outdated, failing technologies and products. Delivering the benefits of continuous data protection and unique journaling technology, Zerto redefines the way customers both protect and also recover data and applications in the 'always-on' economy.

Not only have the companies on the 2019 Inc. 5000 (which are listed online at Inc.com, with the top 500 companies featured in the September issue of Inc., available on newsstands August 20) been very competitive within their markets, but the list as a whole shows staggering growth compared with prior lists. The 2019 Inc. 5000 achieved an astounding three-year average growth of 454 percent, and a median rate of 157 percent. The Inc. 5000's aggregate revenue was $237.7 billion in 2018, accounting for 1,216,308 jobs over the past three years.

"The companies on this year's Inc. 5000 have followed so many different paths to success," says Inc. editor in chief James Ledbetter. "There's no single course you can follow or investment you can take that will guarantee this kind of spectacular growth. But what they have in common is persistence and seizing opportunities."

The annual Inc. 5000 event honoring the companies on the list will be held October 10 to 12, 2019, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. As always, speakers include some of the greatest innovators and business leaders of our generation.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.