Zerto Enterprise DR Solution With Replication to AWS

Zerto, Inc. announced that its Virtual Replication for Amazon Web Services (AWS) was previewed at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. 

It is an hypervisor-based replication solution to offer enterprise data protection and workload mobility from on-premise VMware environments to AWS, extending hypervisor-based replication to the public cloud. Zerto supports continuous replication of workloads irrespective of hypervisor, storage or cloud.

By adding support for AWS, Zerto extends enterprise DR to the public cloud, a capability for enterprises implementing datacenters that mix on-premise and public cloud elements – known as hybrid clouds. Zerto will release its latest version of the software, supporting application-consistent, continuous replication from vSphere or Hyper-V to AWS, in Q1 2015. 

Customers will soon be able to leverage AWS in two ways – for VM recoverability in AWS where the machines actually run in AWS, and long-term retention of VMware VMs using AWS simply as a target for offsite backup.

 “Zerto Virtual Replication to AWS is the next step in our cloud Fabric strategy, which allows customers to select their IT infrastructure based solely on their business needs, regardless of underlying storage, hypervisor or cloud provider,” said Ziv Kedem, Zerto CEO and co-founder. “In the future, Zerto Virtual Replication will offer support for more platforms to ensure that if business circumstances change, the data protection solution doesn’t have to, enabling customers to future-proof their DR investment.”

Specific features of Zerto Virtual Replication for AWS include:

• Storage and hypervisor agnostic replication – any storage can be used at the source and target site, and any hypervisor, including from vSphere or Hyper-V to AWS

• Virtual Protection Groups – consistency groups that ensure applications with multiple VMs can be recovered effectively with write-order fidelity
• Manage all DR and data mobility operations – across vSphere and Hyper-V environments as well as AWS from a single user interface
• CDP – no snapshots – to minimize impact on the production environment
• Lower costs for enterprise DR – with the ability to leverage AWS
• Automated recovery of VMs in AWS
• The use of AWS as backup or DR target for VMware VMs

• Automated orchestration of DR processes for application consistency

More than 700 enterprise customers in 29 countries use Virtual Replication in their production environments to protect, recover and migrate data and production applications with more than 150 cloud providers offering its services.