Category: Continuous Data Protection
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Zerto Recognized for the First Time in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery
To say we’re excited that we were named as a Niche Player and positioned high in the Niche Quadrant of the Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions Magic Quadrant, would be an understatement. In our first-time recognition, we’re very proud that we’re in the top right of the Niche category. However, this is only…
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Beyond legacy backup and DR: It’s all about the recovery
Legacy backup Backup and disaster recovery solutions are merging. Backup vendors, large and small, are looking to incorporate disaster recovery and orchestration into their platforms. Coming from market and technical leadership in disaster recovery for a decade here at Zerto, we see why legacy backup can’t meet modern recovery expectations, let alone trusting backup for…
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Has COVID Changed How Organizations Look at their Data Protection Strategies?
New Insights from IDC Show that Companies are Modernizing their Backup and DR More than a year into the pandemic, COVID has certainly changed the way organizations do business. That is nothing new. But that’s just one of the challenges shifting the IT landscape faster than ever before. In this past year, ransomware and other…
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How Are Organizations Protecting Their Data in the Cloud?
A new study reveals key year-over-year trends in how IT organizations are capitalizing on cloud services as part of their data protection strategy. As organizations continue to adopt public cloud services for business-critical data, many users are confused about what these data protection solutions actually provide—leading to potential data loss and compliance risks. Additionally, on-premises…
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Protecting the Patchwork of SaaS
Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said that software is eating the world in 2011. Now, 10 years later, we can safely say that while software may be eating the world, services are eating software. Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS for short) is the predominant way of delivering commodity, off-the-shelf applications.…
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Why Out of the Box SaaS Protection Isn’t Enough
Yes, Your SaaS Data Needs Backup Just because your software–as–a–service lives in the cloud doesn’t mean your data is backed up. But Zerto Backup for SaaS, powered by KeepIt, can change that. SaaS solutions are terrific. They’re scalable, affordable, fast, and when something goes wrong with the software, the vendor fixes it and gets it back online. But a lot of users don’t know that when (not if) something…
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As World Backup Day Turns 10, Here’s Why It’s Still As Important As Ever
World Backup Day has been around for a decade, and its pledge, “I solemnly swear to backup my important documents and precious memories on March 31st,” remains as relevant and as important as ever. But what started as a personal reminder as people were adopting personal computers quickly became a much bigger reminder for today’s…
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Disaster Recovery vs. Backup: Are the Lines Blurring?
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…
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Go from Snapshots to Streaming with Continuous Data Protection
You can’t tell a fast-paced, constantly changing story with a series of still pictures—you’ll definitely miss something important. You need a streaming video story that shows every moment and captures all the details. Your data is the fast paced, constantly changing fuel for your business. You can’t afford to miss a detail or fail to…
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With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility for Protection and Privacy
So much so, there’s a day dedicated to it With Data Protection Day—also called Data Privacy Day in some regions—celebrated on January 28th, it serves as a critical reminder of the importance of making sure the data you share or that is in your possession is safe and secure. Think about it. Data is growing…
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Achieve Cost-effective Backups and Long-term Retention with Zerto 8.5 and AWS S3
With the AWS re:Invent virtual event rounding off 2020 and focused on helping customers innovate, I thought it would be timely to talk about how Zerto and AWS together deliver cutting-edge capabilities for backup and long-term retention (LTR). When Zerto 7.0 was released with long-term retention, it was only the beginning of the journey to…
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The Art and Impact of Continuous Versus Periodic
At Zerto, our reputation is built upon our unmatched platform that’s engineered for continuous data protection (CDP). The Zerto platform has helped thousands of organizations solve their disaster recovery challenges. With our journal-based technology that allows you to choose from any of the unlimited checkpoints to recover your data to any point back in time,…