Zerto kicked off ZertoCON 2020 today, its fifth annual user conference
but first one to go virtual. One piece of news being unveiled is its plans to
extend its IT Resilience Platform to support next generation, cloud native applications. This news
reinforces Zerto's leadership in the data protection and disaster recovery
market by providing disaster recovery, data protection, and mobility in a
single, simple, scalable platform for on-premises, cloud, and now next-gen
applications. As a first step, Zerto for Kubernetes was announced for the
initial release, which will be platform-agnostic and enable protecting
applications across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IBM
Cloud Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu.
"Our
IT Resilience Platform has fundamentally changed the way companies protect and
backup data across their organizations. With the clear shift towards containers
based application development in the market, we are looking to extend our
platform to offer these applications the same level of resilience we have
delivered to VM based applications," said Gil
Levonai, CMO and senior vice president of
product, Zerto. "Today at our first virtual ZertoCON, we are announcing our
vision and plan for resilience in next generation applications. While next-gen
applications are built with a lot of internal availability and resilience
concepts, they still require an easy and simple way to recover from human error
or malicious attacks, or to be mobilized and recovered quickly without
interruption. This is where Zerto can help."
"Zerto is focusing on resilience for
next-gen applications with its continuous data protection and journaling
technology," said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, ESG. "With Kubernetes
becoming the critical technology in container orchestration for managing
production applications, the availability of Zerto for Kubernetes is very
timely and needed by many organizations. It will enable enterprises to
efficiently protect, recover, and also move applications and their persistent
data for Intelligent Data Management use cases such as accelerated development
and delivery within DevOps workflows."
Resilience for Next-Gen Applications
Building on its
expertise with continuous data protection, Zerto will add new capabilities to
its IT Resilience Platform to disrupt the way that backup and disaster recovery
is done for next generation applications. Zerto for Kubernetes will include:
- Data protection as code: Integrate both data protection and disaster recovery into the
application deployment lifecycle from day one.
- Continuous
replication: Always-on replication provides
protection and fast recovery of persistent volumes within and between
clusters, data centers, or clouds.
- Application-centric protection: Beyond
protecting the persistent data, protect, move and recover complex
applications as one consistent entity, including all associated Kubernetes
objects and metadata.
- Low RPOs for
Kubernetes: Continuous journaling
for Kubernetes applications, including Persistent Volumes, StatefulSets,
Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps.
- Point-in-time
restore: Granular
journal provides thousands of recovery checkpoints to overcome challenges of synchronous replication
while providing more point-in-times than traditional backup.
- Support ordered
recovery of microservices
for complex applications.
- Simplicity: Easy
management with powerful kubectl plug-in and native Kubernetes tooling
- Non-disruptive recovery and testing:
Instantiate a full running copy of an entire application in minutes from
any point in time for testing or recovery from data corruption or
ransomware without impacting production.
- Automated
workflows: Workflows for failover, failover
test, restore, rollback restore, and commit restore.
"At
IFDS, the technology and services we provide underpin the world's largest
financial institutions. Our aim is to continually invest in award winning
technology and ongoing R&D to deliver the most accurate, innovative, and
reliable financial processing platform," said Kent Pollard, senior
infrastructure architect, IFDS. "As an early adopter of Zerto's IT Resilience
Platform for next-gen applications, data protection has become an integral part
of the development cycle. Not only can we protect every piece of the
application, but non-disruptive testing can happen throughout the process. It
also has low RPO and is so easy to manage."
Zerto for Kubernetes is targeted to be released next year, with an
early adopter program launching later in 2020. Interested customers are
encouraged to visit this site to learn more.
"Businesses are increasingly
leveraging containers and Kubernetes to manage enterprise applications," said
Manvinder Singh, director, partnerships at Google Cloud. "We're pleased that
Zerto will expand its capabilities in data protection, disaster recovery,
automated workflows, and more to help these enterprises deploy and manage
Kubernetes at scale."
"As customers increasingly move
business-critical applications to Kubernetes on Azure, Zerto's continuous data
protection technology will be valuable to safeguard stateful production-scale
deployments using Azure Kubernetes Service," said Aung Oo, head of product,
Azure Disks & Files, Microsoft Corp.
"Red Hat OpenShift provides an
industry-leading, comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, pairing the scale
of Kubernetes with the simplicity of Operators and Red Hat's overall commitment
to open source innovation. We're pleased that Zerto has made its IT Resilience
Platform available for Red Hat OpenShift, providing further choice to our
customers in how they secure and protect their critical operations," said Julio
Tapia, senior director, partner ecosystem, cloud platforms, Red Hat.
"Developers need to be able to push
applications into production quickly and also securely," said Amit Sabharwal,
Director, Tanzu technology and business solutions alliances, VMware.
"Kubernetes is a great starting point, and VMware has expanded on its core
functionality with a suite of products in the VMware Tanzu portfolio to provide
a more developer friendly, enterprise-ready, and secure-by-default experience.
The Zerto platform provides a simple user experience and built-in orchestration
for disaster recovery for applications running on Kubernetes."
For further information about Zerto
for containerized applications, visit: www.zerto.com/zerto-for-kubernetes/
For more information about ZertoCON,
visit: https://www.zerto.com/zertocon/