ExaGrid and Zerto With Integrated Solution for Real-Time Backup and Recovery

ExaGrid Systems, Inc., a provider of hyperconverged storage for backup, announced the availability of an integrated DR, long-term retention backup storage, and backup solution with Zerto Ltd.

It is key to a complete BC and DR plan that data is protected and recoverable during a disaster from very granular restore points, as well as providing long-term retention compliance for the growing number of data protection regulations, such as HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and addressing the need to prepare for SEC audits and legal discovery.

Zerto’s CDP ensures that changes are constantly recorded to the firm’s elastic journal so that recovery points are kept up to date. The platform converges DR and backup for continuous availability. This approach, in combination with ExaGrid’s disk landing zone, adaptive deduplication process, and scale-out architecture, provides a solution that includes CDP and scalable long-term backup retention storage.

Zerto writes long-term daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups directly to ExaGrid’s landing zone for fast restores of recently added backups. In parallel with the backup, but not inline, ExaGrid deduplicates the data into the it repository for long-term retention needs and requirements. As data grows, appliances are simply added to the company’s system, which eliminates controller forklift upgrades and product obsolescence, vs. traditional scale-up solutions that force forklift upgrades and periodic product obsolescence.

“There are a number of applications, data types, and organizations that require real-time backup and recovery as well as DR. ExaGrid is pleased to be a strategic partner of Zerto and is excited to see the fruits of our joint development efforts go to market,” said Bill Andrews, CEO and president, ExaGrid.

“In an age of continuous digital transformation, businesses require new levels of resilience from their DR and backup solutions,” commented Ziv Kedem, CEO and co-founder, Zerto. “Backup and DR providers should be striving to innovate ahead of need, and Zerto 7.0 does exactly that – it revolutionizes the way backup is done. We are happy to be partnering with ExaGrid to enable them to deliver the enhanced capabilities and performance their customers want, adding new levels of IT resilience to their data protection strategies, going above and beyond any other DR and backup solution.“

Together, ExaGrid and Zerto provide: 

• CDP with real-time restores for BC/DR
• Cost-effective long-term retention storage
• Indexing and search of all protected data
• Low-cost, offsite long-term retention storage for DR

Combining Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform with ExaGrid’s disk-based backup storage leverages the strengths of each solution to provide real-time data protection of virtualized environments. Data is retained in deduplicated form, meeting compliance-driven retention demands at a reduced storage footprint and cost. The two companies can replicate data in the onsite ExaGrid system to an offsite location, public cloud, or a secondary physical ExaGrid system, in order to ensure that all long-term retention data is protected from a site disaster.