When disaster strikes, preparedness determines whether an organization quickly recovers or goes offline, suffering data loss and financial impact. If you want to recover from disaster well, then a disaster recovery (DR) runbook should be an indispensable part of your DR strategy. A DR runbook is a collection of recovery processes and documentation that simplifies […]
Last week, Gartner released its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, research that we feel represents the benchmark for customers looking for a DRaaS provider. Each year, Gartner evaluates each vendor in its Magic Quadrants who wait with baited breath to see where they’re positioned. We believe the holy grail is to […]
I noticed something today – disaster recovery plans are no different than relationships. Bear with me while I draw this analogy for you. In order to get a good disaster recovery plan (you know, one that you can see yourself with for a long time), you need to put in the time. Sure, I can go to […]
“The day began like any other Monday morning – that’s when the phone rang…One of the traders couldn’t access a file that was critical for trading. Assuming it was nothing out of the ordinary, I began work to try and restore the file. It was then that I noticed the Ransomware infection. I stared in […]
Whether you’re in the IT industry or not, you’ve either barely heard the term RPO/RTO or you have heard it and think you know what it means to you. We here at Zerto wanted to make sure you understood our stance on this dire topic in order to ensure you leave here informed, educated, and […]
In recent weeks, the US and Caribbean have been hit by what seems to be a never-ending barrage of storms during one of worst hurricane seasons in recent history. As Texas and Florida begin to assess the impact of the destruction caused by these devastating storms, those of us watching from other parts of the […]
In today’s evolving digital landscape, comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) solutions are more important than ever. Modern businesses can’t afford downtime or data loss, and customers expect 24/7 access to their data and applications. But as DR solutions and the threats they defend against become more complex, making the right choice about DR is imperative to […]
In the first 4 blog posts we covered installing a Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM), deploying Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs), installing a Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA) and protecting VMs in Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs). If you missed these steps check out them out below: Step 1 – Installing a ZVM Step 2 – Deploying VRAs Step […]
So far, we have covered installing a Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) and deploying Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs). If you missed it check out: Step 1 – Installing a ZVM Step 2 – Deploying VRAs The third step is to deploy a Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA). You only need to complete this step if you want […]
In the first 3 blog posts we covered installing a Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM), deploying Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) and installing a Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA) if you need to replicate to AWS or Azure. If you missed these steps check them out below: Step 1 – Installing a ZVM Step 2 – Deploying VRAs […]
In the first blog post we covered installing a Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM), if you missed it check it out here: Installing Zerto’s Virtual Replication in Minutes – Step 1 The second step is to deploy the Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) onto each ESXi or Hyper-V host that you are going to replicate VMs from […]
Airlines, take notes from GitLab. This is how you do a disaster. We’ve been saying this for years, disasters are gonna happen. Not a week goes by without news of some airline outage, ransomware taking down a hospital or power failure taking down a major website. This week saw (at least) two. Delta’s outage and GitLab’s […]
The CIO at a law firm has a great responsibility to the partners and the business. One of their primary tasks is to ensure that the lawyers have access to the critically important information they need to write briefs, motions, and close out cases — all the while maximizing billable hours. Standing in their way […]
What Is DRaaS? Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is one deployment method for disaster recovery. It used to involve bringing a datacenter to you on the back of a large truck and uploading your data to it. Old-fashioned as that sounds, this cumbersome and time-consuming process was once the gold standard for disaster recovery […]
Data Everywhere Business continuity is an area of increasing complexity in the current multi-cloud IT paradigm. In the old days, we used backups to protect against ‘localized’, limited-impact data loss, like a single system crash, and small-scale data loss. On the other hand, disaster recovery is a set of plans and technical capabilities that help […]
On Alton Brown’s cooking show, he used to abhor a unitasker – a tool used for only one thing. They clutter the cabinets and are useful only in the rare instance that you need to slice an egg or store half an onion. Similarly, a unitasking product in tech is annoying. They clutter your IT […]
