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By Harry Smith, Technical Evangelist at Zerto After going through a million-and-one migrations - both manually and with the help of tools –and having encountered many roadblocks and situations in which I’ve learned from, I can say YES, using Zerto with your migration(s) will make your life SO much easier. However, that alone still isn’t […]

Our inaugural ZertoCON in May was a huge success with hundreds of people joining us for a great few days in Boston.  But we know that unfortunately, you couldn't all come out and join us and we're feeling a little sad about that.  At Zerto we like to share the love, so we've decided to […]

Guest Post By David Feinglass, Solutions Engineer at Zerto In reading about the recent outage at Delta, and seeing this article in which the CEO states that the vulnerability in their IT infrastructure was "a surprise to them", it reminded me of a personal experience that sounds similar.  It speaks to the fact that your […]

By Keith Taylor, Technology Evangelist at Zerto Your disaster recovery plan consists of more than just how you’re going to recover your systems and applications. All too often, it can be easy to overlook these seemingly less significant preparations as the focus tends to be on ensuring there is a solution, or combination of solutions, […]

In case you haven’t seen the news – or heard from friends and family complaining on Facebook – Delta passengers experienced a second day of flight delays and cancellations today due to a power outage in Atlanta yesterday. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and problems were compounded by Delta’s inability to get their notification systems […]

 By Andrew Martin,  APJ Managing Director at Zerto I was speaking to the managing director from a Zerto system integrator (SI) partner last week, and he said something to me that I thought was a joke, but it turned out he was being completely serious. We were discussing the Zerto product roadmap and looking at […]

By Joshua Stenhouse, Technology Evangelist at Zerto When using synchronous replication, a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero only applies to disk writes and only if the disaster requires recovery to the most recent point in time. An RPO of zero on disk writes does not capture any transactions in-flight such as those in the memory of […]

Forrester Research interviewed Zerto’s internal experts, along with their own Analysts, as well as Zerto customers, to learn about the benefits, costs, risks, and flexibility of Zerto. Forrester then quantified and articulated the results in this fascinating Total Economic ImpactTM study. Some highlights from the study: Zerto accounted for $2.2 million in savings in licensing, incidents, […]

By Harry Smith, Technology Evangelist at Zerto DRaaS – Disaster Recovery as a Service – is a pretty well-known term in the industry now, but do you know how to get started leveraging it? Let’s discuss some of the common questions in regards to DRaaS, as well the differences between managed and public cloud options. […]

A Guest Post By Lilac Schoenbeck, VP of Marketing at iLand   Admittedly, the title on the sash is long. Zerto Cloud Service Provider Partner of the Year, 2016. iland was honored to be recognized Zerto at this year’s inaugural ZertoCon conference this year in Boston. Obviously, any weighty bit of colorful lucite is welcomed […]

How Two Days of Paper Record-Keeping Was Enough to Drive a Community Hospital to Search for a Better Business Continuity Solution  By Rob Strechay, Vice President of Product, Zerto Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) strategy is often little thought of until a forcing function—be it natural or man-made—puts a renewed focus on this mission-critical […]

By Joshua Stenhouse, Zerto Technical Evangelist   Snapshots are often used to replicate Virtual Machines (VMs) from a specific point in time and to maintain multiple recovery points in order to recover from a disaster. Snapshots can be performed at the VM level or at the Storage Area Network (SAN) level. VM level snapshots are […]