US Signal Enhanced Options for Zerto-Based DRaaS Offering

US Signal, data center services provider, announced enhancements to its Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) with Zerto, Inc. offering, including self-management, enterprise license mobility, multi-cloud replication, and stretch layer 2 failover.

These enhancements provide customers with options for additional protection against common IT issues such as outages and downtime due to human error, malicious threats, bad patches, and natural disasters.

The demand for DR solutions continues to increase due to its ability to help businesses maintain maximum availability of their critical applications- even in the face of IT outages, advanced cyberthreats like ransomware, and natural disasters. In July 2019 alone, cybercriminals used ransomware to lock up essential data at organizations in New Mexico, Nevada, Connecticut, Louisiana and more.

The updated offering from the company and Zerto presents a DR solution that ensures customers have availability when a disaster strikes.

Four enhancements include several benefits that make this possible, including:

• Self-Managed DRaaS
  The firm’s DR with Zerto enables companies to manage and control their DR solution while taking advantage of the strength and security of the US Signal cloud. This allows them to achieve geo-diversity, minimize human error, avoid issues from patching and keep malicious threats like ransomware separate from their production environments.
  They can also take advantage of the company’s reliable infrastructure and networking while having the flexibility to build their own virtual protection groups (VPGs) to turn replication on or off, test different failover scenarios, or to fail over whenever necessary. In addition, customers can fail over isolated VPGs or their entire environment using a web-accessible self-service portal in case of a full-site failure that leaves the central management interface unavailable.

• Enterprise License Mobility
  The company’s DR with Zerto supports customers who already have purchased a perpetual Zerto IT Resilience Platform: Enterprise Cloud Edition (ECE) license along with maintenance and support from Zerto. Leveraging an existing license results in lower fees, and customers can still elect to have their service managed by US Signal or can manage it themselves.

• Multi-cloud Replication
  With the firm’s multi-cloud replication option, customers can leverage having secondary copies of their production environments in multiple virtual data centers for added protection. This feature enables protection for different failure domains – locally for individual machine restores and remotely for full site protection. It also empowers customers to follow best practices with a 3-2-1 backup and DR plan by creating local copies, for faster restores, while still having an off-site copy for added protection. Multi-cloud replication is also for customers going through digital transformation, as it provides a way to migrate workloads into the US Signal cloud.

• Stretch Layer 2
  Stretch layer 2 is a product extension with the ability to stretch a virtual local area network (VLAN) to allow VMs to talk over the same broadcast domain while in different physical locations. Layer 2 connectivity can be stretched over a layer 3 connection. This allows customers to fail over VPGs without the need to reconfigure IP addresses.

“With the new enhancements for our DRaaS with Zerto offering, we are giving our customers the tools they need to make sure their critical IT workloads are always available,” said David McClure, product development manager, US Signal. “Today’s organizations rely on the availability of their IT assets more than ever, and we are excited to be a strategic partner that helps them achieve maximum up time with minimum data loss, no matter what disaster they are facing.“

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