Cloud & Data Management

In this series of blog posts, we will create the elements needed to get the Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA) installed and ready to connect to an on-premises site. The four components Zerto needs in order for you to use Azure are: Resource Groups Networks Firewalls Storage You can see how Zerto consumes the Azure components in this quick […]

So you want to migrate to the cloud? There is no time better than now to give it a try and see what all the buzz is about. Thankfully, rest easy with Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 (ZVR) in your back pocket because not only can you cross-replicate between hypervisors, versions, and platforms but you can […]

Zerto has many customers already protecting virtual machines from vSphere and Hyper-V to AWS and Azure. With the recent release, Zerto added several new features and fixes that make it worthwhile to upgrade the AWS or Azure Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA). See the release notes here. The upgrade is really straightforward. Log into your ZCA, download […]

You’ve no doubt already noticed that with the release of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5, Zerto is continuing to drive use of the cloud and particularly, hybrid cloud models, to better enable organizations to increase their resilience.  In 5.5, arguably the biggest feature added is automated failback from Microsoft Azure – but because flexibility is such […]

Hopefully you’re now in the know with some of what’s new in Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 5.5. If you need a quick refresher, head over to Ryan’s latest blog here for a quick taste, and more here by Adam. One exciting feature with ZVR 5.0, released near the end of 2016, was the integrated failover […]

With the eagerly anticipated release of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 on August 22nd, it’s time to get all fired up! Why? The fantastic new features in this release are going to make true hybrid cloud resilience possible. It’s the era of the cloud. If you weren’t already convinced that cloud-based infrastructures are the way of […]

The benefits of cloud migration have been proven time and time again, including the switch from CapEx to OpEx, reduced manpower requirements, the ability to scale resources on demand, greater security, better performance, and more. So, why are many organizations still hesitant to make the move? Some may be in a situation comparable to the […]

Cloud computing is causing a paradigm shift in the information technology landscape.  Companies are moving production workloads and even entire datacenters to the cloud in order to fully realize the benefits the cloud offers.  However, two questions that I was always taught to ask myself during my university days was, “Why”, and “How?” Why are […]

Introducing new technology to an IT organization often times is met with resistance. Although it plays a part, the resistance comes not from “fear of the unknown,” but rather the dread of integrating a new platform, learning a new platform, operating a new platform, and maintaining yet another new platform. How can an organization embrace change when […]

With so many organizations looking to find ways to embrace the public cloud without compromising the security of their data and applications, a hybrid cloud strategy is rapidly becoming the preferred method of efficiently delivering IT services. While it’s all very well-and-good deciding that a hybrid cloud strategy is the way forward, successfully creating an […]

A datacenter migration is a huge and incredibly complex project.  You have spent months planning it, thousands of dollars acquiring the resources for it, and you aren’t even sure if your team is going to pull it off!  The idea is simple enough – take my applications and data I have on premise and move […]

Server upgrades and updates. I’m sure you know the history by now of how Zerto came to be. It starts off on our company “About” page stating how Zerto provides enterprise-class disaster recovery. Well, the beautiful thing about creating a hypervisor-based solution that not only continuously replicates virtual machine blocks to another site, but also […]