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IT refreshes are full of challenges, even more so today with the emergence and rapid growth of cloud computing. Not only are you considering what is the right solution to meet your business requirements as closely as possible, you’re often looking in to your crystal ball to aim for this to remain aligned 1, 3, […]

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 […]

Once again, World Backup Day is upon us. This time it’s on March 31st, making those who still aren't backing up data a fool the next day. Yet, according to the organizers of the event, about 30 percent of us are still taking the risk of running our business and personal lives without a solid […]

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 […]

On the fence about attending this year's ZertoCON? We get it - you're not sure what to expect and why this conference is different from every other event currently vying for your attention. Therefore, we asked for input from someone who is far more qualified to convince you than anyone who works at Zerto.  In this blog post, Zerto customer Rubyanne O’Bryan from ClearPath Mutual […]

You’ve installed Zerto's Virtual Replication and you can finally relax. The installation went seamlessly and all that remains is to check in with your environment to ensure everything is running as expected. There’s just one problem – you see an error message. It can be a bit of a challenge at times to understand exactly […]

Modern companies of any size embrace APIs as a critical part of their business.  Recently, we have made all of our Zerto Analytics APIs publicly available for users running ZVR 5.0-6! This means that ANYTHING you see in Zerto Analytics you can get via API.  Cloud Service Providers should be especially excited about this because […]

Sydney Airport (Australia’s largest airport) was in chaos again yesterday, causing major disruption by delaying passenger processing in both the international and domestic terminals. ‘Technical issues’ were spruiked as the root cause but unfortunately, this isn’t the first time this has happened, or even the second. Airport outages are becoming more frequent not only in […]

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 […]

Quick tip for a little extra security with Zerto Let me start by saying that by default unless you have your Windows firewall wide open, no one who doesn’t already have access to your Zerto server can access the PowerShell API. Zerto listens for PowerShell requests on port 9080 by default and that port is […]

I noticed something today – disaster recovery plans are no different than relationships.  Bear with me while I draw this analogy for you.  In order to get a good disaster recovery plan (you know, one that you can see yourself with for a long time), you need to put in the time.  Sure, I can go to […]

Well…maybe it’s not a crisis, but it certainly is a hot topic.  Now more than ever, companies are beginning to look to the cloud to cut costs, streamline operations, and maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly diverse ecosystem.  But if legacy technologies are preventing your organization from testing the capabilities of the cloud, you […]