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Zerto Customers Lead DR-to-Cloud Trend With Adoption of Azure

Firm expands IT resilience platform footprint by 200%.

Zerto Ltd announced that for the 1H20, its customers are pursuing the DR-to-cloud trend with rapid adoption of Azure.

Additionally, it has tripled its global IT Resilience footprint across the federal government and public sectors with new customer acquisitions.

Azure Adoption Ascends
During 1H20, adoption of Azure doubled across several verticals. VMs protected to Azure using Zerto has doubled Y/Y with half of the consumption driven by the education, financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors.

According to Gartner, Inc., “Cloud DR costs can be a fraction of the total costs for traditional DR sites.

In the 2019 Security and Risk survey, for more than 300 IT organizations worldwide, cloud-based recovery is the most popular choice across all levels of system availability.*

Innovation in the Public Cloud
Zerto customers also expanded their adoption among other public cloud providers. Earlier this year, the company announced integrations with AWS Storage Gateway and introduced support for Oracle and Google Cloud. It also continues to make it easier for customers to adopt public clouds. A joint customer, QAD, Inc., a supplier of ERP software took advantage of the Google Cloud and Zerto integration.

With Google Cloud VMware Engine, we are able to quickly extend the enterprise DR capabilities we have become accustomed to with Zerto to the Google Cloud,” says Scott Lawson, director, IT architecture, QAD.

IT Resilience Footprint Grows
Zerto expanded its IT resilience platform footprint by more than 200% with new customers in the federal government and public sector in the 1H20. Additionally, it experienced more than 200% increase in customer project implementation sizes among the legal, software and Internet, and telecommunications sectors.

Key growth highlights include: 

  • New customers in the federal government sector increased by more than 250%.
  • New customers in the public sector increased by 225%.
  • New customers in the insurance industry increased by 18% with the average customer project implementation size increasing by 20%.
  • The average new customer project implementation size in the legal and telecommunications industries nearly doubled.
  • The average new customer project implementation size in the software and Internet industry more than tripled.
  • The average new customer project implementation size in financial services increased by 30%.

Customer Successes and Wins
In the 1H20, customers continued to build IT resilience and achieve results across multiple sectors and use cases:

  • Ritchie Bros., an asset management and disposition company, leveraged the vendor to simplify DR, gain more control, and support data center migrations. Read the Ritchie Bros. case study.
  • A chemical corporation leveraged the firm to move DR operations to the Azure cloud and achieved new operational efficiencies. Read the chemical corporation case study.
  • A regional credit union strengthened its IT resilience by adopting a multi-cloud DR strategy using Zerto with both Azure and AWS. Read the regional credit union case study.
  • New customers using Zerto with Azure include Cairn Energy PLC, City of SeaTac, Grey County, and KIK Custom Products.

We serve the people of Grey County, and because data serves the people, it needs to be available 24/7,” said Evan Davis, Grey County. “Zerto enabled us to easily make the move to Azure for more resilience. Now we have peace of mind that we can recover our data easily even in the midst of a disruption.

ZertoCON Was About the Customer
During ZertoCON 2020 Virtual Event in June, several customers spoke about their experiences with Zerto.

To access the following on-demand speaker sessions:

  • Rich Bailey, VP of IT operations, PruittHealth discusses A Customer’s Guide to DR in the Cloud with Zerto and Microsoft Azure.
  • Rodney Carlson, systems analyst, Horizon Bank shares his experience in Modernize Your Backup with Zerto.
  • Kent Pollard, senior technical architect, International Financial Data Services Ltd. discusses IT Resilience for Kubernetes and Containers.
  • Jayme Williams, senior systems engineer, TenCate BV shares A Tale of Two Ransomware Attacks: TenCate Uses Zerto to Recover from Ransomware in Minutes.

In June, Zerto also honored KIND Snacks as the inaugural IT Resilience Innovator, a program that highlights IT leaders in DR, data protection, and cloud that are striving to protect their business from disruption.

Organizations are increasingly recognizing that building IT resilience and leveraging the cloud for DR is critical not only for IT operations and BC but also for simplicity, greater efficiencies, and control,” said Coley Burke, CRO, Zerto. “We’re excited to see the momentum for our IT Resilience Platform across federal and public sectors and look forward to bolstering IT resilience across all customers for the second half of 2020.

* Gartner, What I&O Leaders Need to Know About DR to the Cloud, Nik Simpson, November 27, 2019

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