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Calling all Zerto Partners and Customers! Great news--the Second Annual ZertoCON Awards are now open for submissions! Sure, I’m running the awards so I may be a wee bit biased, but I honestly think these are the greatest honors ever bestowed on IT folks in the history of ever. And the Zerto customers and partners […]

It’s that time of the year again.. we're just a week away from the 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, FL, (Feb 19-23). Zerto will be there in full force! Each year, HIMSS brings together thousands of healthcare IT professionals from around the world to network, share, and learn about all about the […]

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 […]

One of the biggest reasons why customers love Zerto is because it’s so simple and easy to install (and it does exactly what it says on the tin), which isn’t common for any typical DR solution. Many vendors say they are simple, but Zerto is the rare exception where it really is as simple as […]

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 […]

Two years ago I wrote about the top 5 questions on data protection I was hearing as a Zerto Systems Engineer (SE). Back then the conversations were typically with mid-market enterprises and covered topics of interest to System Administrators and IT Managers. These are the front-line daily warriors who usually had specific questions around interoperability with our one supported platform […]

In the ever-changing world of corporate information technology and data management, CIOs are tasked with keeping a demanding pace and must be poised to make critical, well-informed decisions to mitigate risks and ensure business continuity for their organizations. No easy feat! Developed as an outlet to evaluate and discuss hot topics in the world of IT […]

On Sunday 8th January Zerto made Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 5.0 U1 generally available. With this update comes support for VMware vSphere 6.5 and VMware VSAN 6.5. This is a key release for customers that are planning on upgrading their VMware environment to the latest vSphere version. This means that within a very quick turnaround […]

It's the time of year for a bit of reflection on the last twelve months....What did I do in 2016? Did I go to the gym twice a week? Did I cut back on my creative use of swear words? Did I up my professional development game? For those of you who checked off "taking a […]

When IBM and VMware announced their partnership to offer the VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud (formally known as SoftLayer), adding Zerto's Virtual Replication (ZVR) was a logical next step. Now that the dust has settled, this partnership is called IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and Zerto in IBM Bluemix. IBM Cloud and VMware are […]

When it comes to data storage and management, replication is a common technique used to ensure availability and protection. Data replication involves creating copies of data and storing them in multiple locations so that they can be accessed even if one of the storage locations fails or becomes unavailable. This makes it a primary technology for […]