Zerto Virtual Replication Includes Offsite Backup

Zerto, Inc. announced availability of Virtual Replication 3.5.

The company has added features to its enterprise BC and DR solution, including offsite backup. The backup feature enables long-term retention of data and applications at the target site in addition to continuous replication, simplifying data protection for the purposes of recovery, archiving and compliance in a single solution. Hypervisor-based, it allows both CSPs and enterprises to satisfy internal and external requirements for data protection.

“A comprehensive DR and backup solution is particularly valuable to companies who have long-term retention requirements because it eliminates the need to purchase a separate backup product,” said Gil Levonai, VP products and marketing, Zerto. “Furthermore, Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 can be used with any cloud – private, public or hybrid – allowing organizations to choose the IT environment that best suits their needs and without disturbing existing production environments.“

Zerto Offsite Backup
The offsite backup is a model of data protection built on hypervisor-based replication, combining replication, CDP and long-term retention at the target site. Unlike traditional backup products, with this offsite backup, backups occur from replicas on the target site, so impact on production applications is reduced. No additional backup agents or appliances are required in the production environment. For those enterprises looking to leverage the cloud, this allows for DR to the cloud together with long term retention in the cloud.

Benefits include:

• Data protection with DR and backup in one solution

• Streamlined management with configurable backups, including daily, weekly and monthly options

• Reduced impact on production applications with backup infrastructure at the target site

• Support for business requirements with the ability to recover in different locations

• Backup to local or remote storage and recover even from third-party infrastructures, including public clouds

“iland customers using DR solutions powered by Zerto Virtual Replication can easily replicate from a vSphere environment to iland’s VMware vCloud infrastructure without making any changes to their environments,” said Justin Giardina, CTO, iland Internet Solutions Corporation. “Executing customers’ backup operations at the replication site reduces the overhead on ESXi hosts and VMs and also allows for both replication and backup to our cloud, which brings additional cost savings to our customers.“

Additional features include:

• Enhanced alert handling, including applicable problem and resolution information

• Simplified management activities, including hypervisor operations through Virtual Replication and status and activity

• Set of APIs to automate management

The solution has been in private beta with existing customers and becomes available.