Jefferson National Protects With Zerto
Internal file server and production applications
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 14, 2012 at 3:07 pmZerto, Inc.,
an hypervisor-based replication solution provider, announced
that Jefferson National Securities Corporation has chosen Zerto
Virtual Replication (ZVR) to provide DR services for its internal file server
and production applications.
Jefferson National is a financial services firm that provides
tax-deferred investing solutions to a network of more than 2,000 registered
investment advisors (RIAs) and fee-based advisors nationwide, helping them
serve their clients to build wealth and achieve their financial goals.
It implemented ZVR to protect a new datacenter that was opened for redundancy and failover purposes. The company is currently
protecting production applications including SQL servers, web
servers, Exchange and its online variable annuity product, a tax-deferred
investing solution that allows advisors and their clients to manage and trade
between more than 380 different underlying funds, including stock funds, bond
funds, commodity funds, ETF portfolios and more. By replacing its previous
replication technology with Zerto, Jefferson National achieved a RPO near zero and reduced its RTO)from
four hours down to minutes.
"Zerto’s
replication solution is incredibly simple to set up, use and manage. We
recently did a DR test to fail over production to our Atlanta
data center. With just a few clicks, and in less than 30 minutes, we had all of
our production applications back up," said Jeff Chandler, VP of
technology operations, Jefferson National. "Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication solution eliminates risk.
Furthermore, support has been outstanding, and it delivers on the RPO/RTOs that
our company requires."
Zerto offers a virtual-aware BC and DR solution,
which replicates data within the virtual infrastructure instead of in physical
storage. By moving replication to the hypervisor, companies extend the
benefits of virtualization, including flexibility, mobility and scalability, to
their DR solutions. Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication combines the
enterprise-class features of physical replication with the flexibility, ease-of-management and control, and scalability of virtual environments.
"As with all our customers, our goal
is to provide Jefferson National with the most powerful yet user-friendly BC/DR
solution available for the enterprise," said Ziv Kedem, CEO, Zerto. "We know that every second
counts in the financial services industry, and specifically designed ZVR to
eliminate lengthy outages of the sort that previously threatened not only
Jefferson National but also its network of advisors and their clients."