Arcserve Acquired Start-Up Zetta, Enterprise-Cloud DR Provider

Arcserve, LLC, whose data protection and availability solutions deliver enterprise power with small team simplicity, announced the acquisition of Zetta, Inc., in cloud-first DR solutions and data center IP.

Zetta’s offerings provide organizations with direct-to-cloud DR as a service (DRaaS) and backup as a service (BaaS) to quickly and reliably protect, access and recover virtual and physical data without the need for extra hardware.

The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

This transaction increases Arcserve’s market share on the heels of the company’s recent email archiving technology acquisition of FastArchiver.

“The acquisition of Zetta advances our cloud solution with technology, data centers and expertise that places Arcserve at the forefront of the backup and recovery industry,” said Mike Crest, CEO, Arcserve.

Jeff Whitehead, CTO, Arcserve, and former CTO, Zetta, added: “Arcserve and Zetta share the same passionate focus on customer success and delivering the world’s foremost data protection innovation. Becoming a part of Arcserve presents us with an amazing opportunity to invest further in our technology and gives our customers access to a broader portfolio of data protection solutions with continued global support.”

“Organizations of all sizes are looking to cloud technologies as part of their IT acceleration strategies; especially with regard to backup and BC/DR. Arcserve is making the right strategic move at a critical juncture in this market,” said Jason Buffington, principal analyst, ESG. “The addition of Zetta is clearly a good fit for mid-market customer needs today. Zetta’s leading cloud technologies, combined with Arcserve’s rich data protection solutions, provide a compelling breadth of capabilities that demonstrates Arcserve’s continued evolution and reinvention in this market.”

Complete and Seamless Cloud Backup and DR
With the purchase of Zetta, Arcserve’s Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution suite will now include UDP Cloud Direct, its new direct-to-cloud DRaaS and BaaS offerings, for:

• Businesses who need a quick and simple cloud on-ramp without on-premise hardware requirements, such as in branch or small offices where on-premise may not be desired or practical
• Users who want a seamless cloud networking, automation and management platform, and who wish to automatically and securely move large volumes of data over networks to data centers worldwide
• Organizations with systems that cannot tolerate downtime and want to benefit from push-button failover of an entire IT environment in minutes, cloud backup speeds and 100% recoverability with validated data integrity
• Channel partners looking to efficiently and profitably adopt and manage cloud offerings, with features such as multitenancy, multi-customer administration, tracking, and invoicing

Arcserve currently offers its cloud service through UDP in a hybrid backup model, whereby users automatically replicate backup images from an on-premise recovery point server (RPS) to a corresponding RPS in the cloud (disk-to-disk-to-cloud). By converging direct-to-cloud and hybrid cloud technologies into one solution, IT teams can now implement on premises, hybrid cloud and direct to cloud from a single pane of glass.

Arcserve Shatters Notion of Recovery
With First Platform-Comprehensive Near-Zero Data Loss Solution
Recognizing that a growing number of organizations are deploying systems with zero tolerance for more than a fews of data loss, the company announced a disaster avoidance platform that will enable its customers to move beyond recovering data in the event of a disaster to avoiding the disaster altogether.

“Midsize and decentralized organizations are being overwhelmed by enterprise expectations, whereby they’re expected to adhere to stricter service level availability agreements without enterprise budgets,” said Crest. “This is where the challenge lies: these organizations cannot afford the complex and expensive solutions offered by some vendors, nor can they justify DRaaS solutions that may recover systems quickly but are recovering hours-old data. That’s a huge market gap we will fill.”

The company will soon deliver a comprehensive and affordable near-zero data loss RPO solution with near-instant RTO priced affordably for midsize and decentralized enterprise organizations. The firm is already building out this solution by combining its replication and HA engine with its new cloud-first DRaaS offerings and data center IP.

Continued Crest, “Over the coming months, we’ll change the game with an affordable, completely seamless solution that will limit customers’ data loss to nearly zero and will support all midmarket platforms, hypervisors, cloud and on-premises, ultimately making DRaaS solutions that lose hours of data a relic of the past.”

Arcserve’s new direct-to-cloud solution, Cloud Direct, will be available through its North American partner network this summer, with broader availability and local data centers in EMEA this fall, and Japan within the year.

The availability of the current UDP hybrid cloud service is unaffected.

Current Zetta customers will continue to be supported.