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This just in – reports coming from twitter are showing that there has been a major outage in the Mimecast datacenter. Mimecast recently raised a $62.5 million funding round for their cloud-based email management platform. I was alerted to the mimecast outage on twitter by @Jon_G_UK who appears to be a customer:

We’re not in the business of pointing fingers at others – but in the Disaster Recovery market, it’s incumbent upon us to take stock of the types of failures and outages that happen, and to break them down so that we can be sure that Zerto’s disaster recovery solution will be able to handle outages of any kind.

Would we tell people not to use a cloud-based or SaaS offering? No – the benefits often outweigh the costs, and all datacenters are prone to outages. This one, with what seems like over 125 UK law firms that could be impacted, will certainly teach us many lessons about continuity plans.

This post was written by Zerto’s Sr. Marketing Architect, Shannon Snowden. One common question we get from service providers, enterprises, and others relates to how Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) is about data replication in large environments; how is Zerto able to protect servers with very large storage requirements? Servers with terabytes of data are very …

Today, Bluelock launched their Recovery as a Service offerings. With us today on the blog is Diana Nolting from Bluelock – here to talk about today’s announcement: Z: Hi Diana, and thanks for joining us on the Zerto blog. B: Thanks, Fara. Z: So tell us a bit about the road leading up to today’s …

It’s that time of year again! Voting has opened up for VMworld 2013 sessions, and there are some great choices. Lots from the usual suspects but there are still plenty of breakout sessions from some lesser-known presenters. Here are our top-picks (ours are included in the mix) – please vote for them and get these sessions …

Post contributed by Shannon Snowden, Zerto’s Sr. Technical Marketing Architect It is springtime and for many it’s time for baseball to begin again. I’m not a baseball fan, but I do like movies, and what we are seeing at Zerto reminds me of the tag line from the movie Field of Dreams.  “If you build …

Today’s post is by Eric Hannah, Zerto’s Regional Sales Manager for the North Central US Region. Remember the days when we used individual devices for every task in day to day life?  It wasn’t long ago that we had home telephones, answering machines with tapes, a clock, a camera and film, a map, compass, a television.  …