Category: Cloud & Data Management

Zerto is one of those vendors that I have been aware of for a while and has been in our “need to get to that and evaluate” pile for a while now.  It was put into that pile for two reasons: The Zerto elevator pitch did make sense when I heard it As we have…

One of the most often asked questions from our customers and partners is … How much Microsoft Azure am I going to need? This is a completely reasonable question and one Zerto took action to help address. We made it as simple as 1, 2, 3: How many Virtual Machines (VM’s) do you want to…

Most organisations that I meet with and talk to have leadership mandated cloud first strategies that they need to implement and rightly so. There are clear and tangible benefits of consuming cloud services for an organisation. Leveraging cloud platforms and services can allow organisations to reduce their physical footprints, reduce management and administration requirements, reduce…

When it comes to developing a cloud strategy, for many organizations, the struggle is real.  It is a challenge to even know where to begin. “Developing a Practical Cloud Strategy for Traditional Data Centers,” is a report by Storage Switzerland, a leading storage analyst firm, that lays out the steps to establishing a practical cloud…

By now, it’s no secret that the IT Resilience Platform that Zerto has come to be known as offers complete flexibility when it comes to multi-cloud agility.  This agility allows businesses to accelerate their digital transformation and truly take advantage of what the public cloud platform offers – ensuring even more freedom to choose your…

Overview While deploying the Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA) in Azure is straightforward, it does require that a Resource Group, networking, and network security groups (NSGs) exist in Azure already. We wanted to eliminate the separate pre-requisite build steps and have the Resource Group, Network, NSGs, and storage all deploy along with the ZCA. Fortunately, Microsoft…

In the ever-demanding world of 24/7/365, no business can afford any downtime expected or unexpected. Business resiliency is no longer just a nice to have but a requirement for doing business in the 21st century. With Zerto and IBM Cloud, your business can remain always available no matter what happens. IBM Cloud gives you the…

Hello everyone and welcome to Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0! There are so many exciting new features in this release, it’s sure to be a popular download! There seemed to be no better way to celebrate the release of Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 than with a glass of Cardhu single malt (the code name for this…

The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Cloud is not new anymore and it’s being used more and more by organizations across the globe. But as cloud usage is maturing the way it is being adopted changes. The new option…. Multi-Cloud! Multi-Cloud describes an environment that relies on multiple clouds – such as Azure, IBM Cloud or AWS…

In the previous post in this series, we created Resource Groups and Networks and Subnets. In this post we continue to create what we need in the Azure environment for our Zerto Cloud Appliance installation. Network Security Groups Using similar steps as the creation of Resource Group and Networks,   from the main menu, go to Network Security…