Zerto Signs Agreements With 33 Cloud Service Providers

Zerto
Inc .
announced that 33 Cloud
Service Providers
(CSP) have joined the Zerto cloud DR Ecosystem (ZCE).

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Providers in the ecosystem can now
offer cloud DR services in a way that was not possible before,
enabling businesses of all sizes to protect production applications
to the cloud and in the cloud.

Businesses are looking to the cloud
to provide data protection for their production applications. With
cloud DR, companies can now replace their primary or secondary data
centers and benefit from cloud automation and flexibility while
having a solid DR assurance. Until now, cloud-based DR for production
applications had been ineffective, complex and expensive.

Due to limitations with array-based
replication, CSPs were required to have the same storage type as
their customers, increasing their overall costs. Driving up costs was
the complexity of managing these cloud-based DR offerings, which were
inflexible, labor-intensive and difficult to scale. By resolving
these problems for CSPs, Zerto makes the cloud itself more resilient,
so CSPs can provide enterprise customers with SLAs and assurance when
placing their business applications in the cloud.

"Zerto’s solution has been
adopted by cloud service providers because it enables them to offer
simple, automated, storage-agnostic DR at an attractive price,"
said Ziv Kedem, Zerto CEO and co-founder. "Recent outages
show that until now, customers hoping to use the cloud for disaster
recovery had no viable options. The widespread participation in
Zerto’s cloud DR Ecosystem shows that the service provider community
is eager to offer DR services that work better with their cloud
environments and meet the rigorous standards companies expect of DR
services."

"For our enterprise
customers, disaster recovery can be a critical step in the cloud
journey," said Ben Miller, product solution director at
Bluelock.
"Before Zerto, a true multi-tenant, cloud-based DR service
compatible with Bluelock’s VMware vcloud Datacenter Services was not
possible. Zerto provides a secure hypervisor replication capability
that will allow Bluelock to provide a disaster recovery offering with
the economics and agility of cloud computing that customers have been
seeking."

The cloud DR offering that ZCE
partners will deliver to their customers is based on Zerto Virtual
Replication 2.0, the hypervisor-based replication solution. Companies
can choose DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS), protecting
applications to the cloud, and In-cloud DR, protecting applications
deployed in the cloud and replicated to a secondary cloud datacenter.

"Zerto
provides a solution for our customers who want to decrease their
costs while increasing the functionality of their DR environment"
said Ken Seitz, manager of product strategy at Peak
10.
"Having Zerto
as part of our overall BC/DR offerings allows simpler configuration
for our customers and improves the ability to replicate directly into
the Peak 10 recovery cloud. The ZCE combined with our existing cloud
infrastructure makes disaster recovery available for a large segment
of our customers who once thought it was out of reach."