Microsoft Ignite: From Zerto, Expansive Data Protection Platform Utilizing Microsoft Azure

Zerto, Inc. introduces a more expansive data protection platform utilizing Microsoft Azure.

Zerto 7.5 incorporates Azure Managed Disks, native scale-out, mobility between regions and managed service identities. These functionalities expand the company’s offerings to a new set of critical use cases-helping customers move to Azure for multi-cloud, DR and migration projects.

Capabilities include:

• Azure Managed Disks: The firm’s integration supports failback from Azure Managed Disks both to and from the cloud (premium SSD, standard SSD and standard HDD), with short SLAs and high performance for workloads migrated to Azure or for DR/IT resilience strategy.

• Azure Cloud Native Scale-Out: The integration supports ongoing replication as well as recovery workflows, enabling increased RTO performance, recoverability and simpler management for enterprise workloads at scale with Azure scale sets.

• Azure Cloud Mobility between regions: Migrating from Zone to Zone or ‘lift and shift’ from one region to another can be achieved with simplicity when via Zerto’s 7.5 integration with Microsoft Azure.

• Azure Managed Service Identities: the company and Microsoft Azure users can authenticate to Azure services and keep their credentials secure via the Microsoft Managed Service Identity.

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of incremental snapshots of Azure Managed Disks that the company leverages for the failback functionality. This extended platform capability is available for customers on Azure in the Western Central US and Northern Europe.

According to Microsoft’s website, “incremental snapshots provide a unique capability available only in Azure Managed Disks enabling backup and DR solutions. It allows you to get the changes between two snapshots of the same disk, thus copying only data that has changed between two snapshots, reducing time and cost for backup and DR.“

“With the release of incremental snapshots of Azure Managed Disks, Microsoft again sets the bar for cloud performance and features. And Microsoft makes it possible for partners to innovate during the development process and therefore customers are able to realize the benefits of these advancements expediently. Microsoft understands that working closely with ISV partners is the best way to deliver innovation and requested features to customers quickly,” said Peter Kerr, VP, strategic alliance, Zerto.

“Through Zerto, we’ve been able to replace multiple legacy backup solutions, including SRM and RecoverPoint,” said Jeffrey Frankel, senior DR services engineer, McKesson Corp. “The integration and utilization of a streamlined application has not only reduced our setup time from days to less than an hour, but it has also reduced our system recovery time by more than 90%. Additionally, Zerto’s partnership has helped facilitate rapid adoption of a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy, implementing comprehensive cloud-based DR through Microsoft Azure.“

“Zerto continues to drive innovation on Microsoft Azure by building advanced failback capability for Azure Managed Disks leveraging the new incremental snapshot functionality. Customers are now able to expand their usage to premium SSD, standard SSD and standard HDD Disks, and experience the industry leading DR and cloud migration solution with lowered costs,” said Aung Oo, head, product, Azure Disks and Files, Microsoft Corp.