Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Adopts Zerto IT Resilience Platform

Zerto Ltd announced that Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), an asset management and disposition company, has modernized its DR and strengthened its IT resilience with the vendor.

Through its multiple online selling platforms, Ritchie Bros. helps thousands of people around the world buy and sell heavy equipment, trucks, and other assets. Because bidding is done in real-time through the its websites, if downtime occurs, sellers and buyers can’t complete business transactions and revenue opportunities are quickly missed.

Prior to working with Zerto, the IT team at Ritchie Bros. relied on using another based MSP solution and wanted to bring DR in-house to simplify operations and strengthen their IT resilience.

After testing DR solutions on the market, the IT team determined that Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform was simple to use and worked with a variety of their existing storage solutions. Ritchie Bros. uses Zerto to protect their mission critical applications, as well as containerized applications.

“At the end of the day, we’re a technology company,” said Stephen Charles, director, enterprise infrastructure and technical services, Ritchie Bros. “Our customers need our auction services to be available 24/7 so they can get top $ for their assets. Because of our global reach, if a critical auction service is down for even a minute or second, sales can get postponed or lost altogether. With Zerto we’ve been able to gain much better RPOs and RTOs to protect the business from any potential disruptions while minimizing expenses.“

Since implementing Zerto, the user has reduced the time needed for failover testing. It has also used the vendor to migrate data from an old datacenter to a central datacenter following an acquisition.

“Helping Ritchie Bros continue serving the needs of its worldwide customers without worrying about technology disruptions, downtime, or data loss is fundamental to modern IT operations and strategies,” said Coley Burke, CRO, Zerto. “We’re delighted that Ritchie Bros. is using Zerto for DR, data migration, and protection across both servers and containerized applications to build IT resilience.“

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