Zerto to Extend IT Resilience Platform to Next-Gen Applications

Zerto Ltd. opened its first virtual user conference, ZertoCON 2020, by unveiling its plans to extend its IT Resilience Platform to support next gen, cloud native applications.

This news reinforces the company’s in the data protection and DR market by providing DR, data protection, and mobility in a single, simple, scalable platform for on-premises, cloud, and now next-gen applications.

As a first step, Zerto for Kubernetes was announced for the initial release, which will be platform-agnostic and enable protecting applications across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu.

“Our IT Resilience Platform has fundamentally changed the way companies protect and backup data across their organizations. With the clear shift towards containers based application development in the market, we are looking to extend our platform to offer these applications the same level of resilience we have delivered to VM based applications,” said Gil Levonai, CMO and SVP, product. “Today at our first virtual ZertoCON, we are announcing our vision and plan for resilience in next gen applications. While next-gen applications are built with a lot of internal availability and resilience concepts, they still require an easy and simple way to recover from human error or malicious attacks, or to be mobilized and recovered quickly without interruption. This is where Zerto can help.“

“Zerto is focusing on resilience for next-gen applications with its CDP and journaling technology,” said Christophe Bertrand, senior analyst, ESG. “With Kubernetes becoming the critical technology in container orchestration for managing production applications, the availability of Zerto for Kubernetes is very timely and needed by many organizations. It will enable enterprises to efficiently protect, recover, and also move applications and their persistent data for Intelligent Data Management use cases such as accelerated development and delivery within DevOps workflows.“

Resilience for next-gen applications
Building on its expertise with CDP, the company will add capabilities to its IT Resilience Platform to disrupt the way that backup and DR is done for next gen applications. Zerto for Kubernetes will include:

• Data protection as code: Integrate both data protection and DR into the application deployment lifecycle from day one.

• Continuous replication: Always-on replication provides protection and fast recovery of persistent volumes within and between clusters, data centers, or clouds.

• Application-centric protection: Beyond protecting the persistent data, protect, move and recover complex applications as one consistent entity, including all associated Kubernetes objects and metadata.

• Low RPOs for Kubernetes: Continuous journaling for Kubernetes applications, including Persistent Volumes, StatefulSets, Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps.

• Point-in-time restore: Granular journal provides thousands of recovery checkpoints to overcome challenges of synchronous replication while providing more point-in-times than traditional backup.

• Support ordered recovery of micro-services for complex applications.

• Simplicity: Easy management with powerful kubectl plug-in and native Kubernetes tooling

• Non-disruptive recovery and testing: Instantiate a running copy of an entire application in minutes from any point in time for testing or recovery from data corruption or ransomware without impacting production.

• Automated workflows: Workflows for failover, failover test, restore, rollback restore, and commit restore.

“At IFDS, the technology and services we provide underpin the world’s largest financial institutions. Our aim is to continually invest in award winning technology and ongoing R&D to deliver the most accurate, innovative, and reliable financial processing platform,” said Kent Pollard, senior infrastructure architect, IFDS Group. “As an early adopter of Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform for next-gen applications, data protection has become an integral part of the development cycle. Not only can we protect every piece of the application, but non-disruptive testing can happen throughout the process. It also has low RPO and is so easy to manage.“

Zerto for Kubernetes is targeted to be released next year, with an early adopter program launching later in 2020. Interested customers are encouraged to visit this website.

“Businesses are increasingly leveraging containers and Kubernetes to manage enterprise applications,” said Manvinder Singh, director, partnerships, Google Cloud. “We’re pleased that Zerto will expand its capabilities in data protection, DR, automated workflows, and more to help these enterprises deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale.“

“As customers increasingly move business-critical applications to Kubernetes on Azure, Zerto’s CDP technology will be valuable to safeguard stateful production-scale deployments using Azure Kubernetes Service,” said Aung Oo, head, product, Azure Disks and Files, Microsoft Corp.

“Red Hat OpenShift provides an industry-leading, comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, pairing the scale of Kubernetes with the simplicity of Operators and Red Hat’s overall commitment to open source innovation. We’re pleased that Zerto has made its IT Resilience Platform available for Red Hat OpenShift, providing further choice to our customers in how they secure and protect their critical operations,” said Julio Tapia, senior director, partner ecosystem, cloud platforms, Red Hat, Inc.

“Developers need to be able to push applications into production quickly and also securely,” said Amit Sabharwal, director, Tanzu technology and business solutions alliances, VMware, Inc. “Kubernetes is a great starting point, and VMware has expanded on its core functionality with a suite of products in the VMware Tanzu portfolio to provide a more developer friendly, enterprise-ready, and secure-by-default experience. The Zerto platform provides a simple user experience and built-in orchestration for DR for applications running on Kubernetes.“

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