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DISASTER
RECOVERY 101
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Confused about RTOs and RPOs? Fuzzy
about failover and failback? Wondering
Why Do You Need DR?
about the advantages of continuous data
No one is immune to disruptions, malicious attacks, and unrecoverable data
protection over snapshots? This eBook
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will help you learn about disaster recovery
(DR) from the ground up so you can make
informed decisions and implement an
effective DR strategy. We’ll show you how
91% 91%
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building a resilient IT infrastructure—the
backbone of successful digital businesses 91% have experienced a tech-related 91% have experienced some type of
and always-on customer experiences. business disruption in the past 2 years business disruption (variety of factors)

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84% 56%

The Future of Disaster Recovery 84% have experienced a malicious 56% have experienced unrecoverable
attack in the past 12 months (that they data within the last 3 years (up from
know about) 49% last year)

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Source: IDC State of IT Resilience Report
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THE COST OF
DOWNTIME
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Modern businesses cannot afford to lose Disruptions cost a business even when
data. Customers & stakeholders, both it’s not tier 1 or critical applications that
internal and external, expect seamless have an outage. And it’s important to keep
24/7 access to their data and applications. in mind that the cost of downtime is not
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Whatever the cause—natural disaster, only impacted by revenue-generating VMs,
human error, or cyberattack—downtime or those directly involved in creating or
and data loss are costly and can be processing sales. Consider indirect impact

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extremely risky to the life of a business.
Every enterprise, no matter the industry,
as well:
$250,000/hr
• Brand damage, either for the IT division Average cost of downtime per
needs a cutting-edge disaster recovery hour across all industries and
or the business as a whole
strategy to ensure uptime, minimize organizational sizes
data loss, and maximize productivity no • Loss of productivity; for example, when

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matter what kind of disruption or outage email, file servers, or the CRM goes down $2,000,000/yr
comes along. The collective cost of 8 hours
• Time spent during and after an incident
of downtime per year to an
on analysis, communication, or reporting organization

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Source: IDC State of IT Resilience Report
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consultation.

A rock-solid disaster recovery strategy is RDP, then encrypts the data and generates
not limited to traditional disasters either. a pair of private-public keys. The hacker
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Organizations regularly contend with holds the private key, and without it
the need for operational recovery too. the data is impossible to decrypt until Calculate
Operational recovery deals with the day- the ransom is paid (usually in Bitcoin).
to-day realities of accidental deletions, Sometimes, even after a company pays the now
Disaster Recovery at Scale overwritten files, or corrupted folders. ransom, the attackers never provide the
decryption key leaving victims without their
Straddling the line between operational
money or their files. $ $ $
recovery and disaster recovery are the

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potentially crippling effects of viruses,
worms, and malware of all types. Notably,
Recent advancements in encryption
technologies, coupled with the ease with
$ $ $
ransomware has become a particularly which hackers can conceal their identities,
thorny problem for enterprises. According has resulted in an increased adoption of
to Cybersecurity Ventures, the global cost ransomware strategies.
of ransomware is predicted to reach $11.5
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billion in 2019. This malicious software
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INTRODUCING
RTO & RPO DAILY
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Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the last • Always aim for the lowest RPO possible, RPO = 24 Hours
point in time IT systems and applications then configure alerts to warn if you are in UP TO $273,972.60 *
can be recovered to. It indicates the danger of the actual RPO exceeding your
amount of data that will be lost, measured defined SLA. Ensure that your solution
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in elapsed time. enables the prioritization of individual
applications should the bandwidth for
• The cost of ONE HOUR of lost data for
replication become constrained.
most enterprises can easily hit six figures,
which is one reason organizations of all Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the SNAPSHOT-BASED
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sizes are reconsidering whether nightly time that it takes to recover data and REPLICATION
backups (with an RPO of 24 hours) are applications, meaning, how long will it RPO = Hours
still sufficient in today’s demanding be until business operations are back to UP TO $45,662.10 *
business environments normal after an outage or interruption.
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• Due to the RPO’s importance on data • The cost of downtime associated with
loss, it is recommended to agree on an waiting for applications and data to be
acceptable, achievable RPO on a per- recovered (RTO) can result in significant
application basis. loss in revenue and productivity.
CONTINUOUS
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REPLICATION
RPO = Seconds
UP TO $7,610.35 *
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PROVE YOUR
DR WORKS
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In order to benchmark your RTO
Recovery Report for Virtual Protection Group
Production 3 and tweak your DR plan to minimize
Report was generated on 09/14/2019 12:02:29 downtime, testing is a must. By testing
Recovery Operation Details
Initiated by System
your plan with a DR technology that
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Point-in-time
Failover Test
09/14/2019 11:46:17
allows for no downtime in production
Recovery operation Start Time 09/14/2019 15:46:30
or break in the replication, you can
Recovery operation End Time 09/14/2019 16:01:07
RTO 00:07:43 perform a test during working hours.
Recovery operation result Passed by user
User Notes Stop Test for VPG Production 3 This ensure you are able to fully
Disaster Recovery at Scale Virtual Protection Group Recovery Settings recover, and you can run through the
Protected Site Production
Recovery Site Culpeper Prod recovery operation multiple times to
Default recovery host Prod 1
Default recovery datastore DSXtremCP6
get your RTO as low as possible.
Journal datastore DRJOURNAL01
Default test recovery network Zerto_TestNet
Default recovery folder DR

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Detailed Recovery Steps
# Step Description Result Start End Time Executi
1. Fail-over test VM ‘c3putdmo2212d1’ Success 11:46:32 11:46:42 00:00:09

1.1. Create Recovery VM ‘c3putdmo2212db1’- testing recovery’ Success 11:46:33 11:46:38 00:00:05

1.2. Reconfigure IP for VM ‘c3putdmo2212db1’- testing recovery’ Success 11:46:41 11:46:41 00:00:00
16. Fail-over test VM ‘c3putdcts1’ Success 11:46:42 11:46:50 00:00:08 This is an actual successful failover test from a healthcare orga-
16.1 Create Recovery VM ‘c3putdcts1’’- testing recovery’ Success 11:46:43 11:46:49 00:00:06 nization using Zerto Virtual Replication. The test
16.2 Reconfigure IP for VM ‘c3putdcts1’ testing recovery’ Success 11:46:50 11:46:50 00:00:00 was completed during a regular work day, with zero production
The Future of Disaster Recovery 19. Fail-over test VM ‘c3pitdga2122ap1’ Success 11:46:42 11:46:50 00:00:07 impact.
19.1 Create Recovery VM ‘c3pitdga2122ap1- testing recovery’ Success 11:46:43 11:46:47 00:00:03

19.2 Reconfigure IP for VM ‘c3pitdga2122ap1’- testing recovery’ Success 11:46:49 11:46:49 00:00:00
This failover test covers the organization’s tier one healthcare
20. Fail-over test CM ‘c3pitdoh2004ap1’ Success 11:46:42 11:46:50 00:00:07
applications, consisting of 23 VMs with 8.3 TB of data, and took
25. Fail-over test VMs’ ‘c3putdmo2212db1’ volumes Success 11:47:19 11:48:06 00:00:46
less than 15 min, with no downtime.
25.1 Create scratch volume for VM ‘c3putdmo2212db1’ Success 11:47:19 11:47:44 00:00:24
Note: Some data points in this report have been redacted to
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protect customer confidentiality.
27.1 Attach volume VMs’ ‘c3putdmo2212db1-0:1:’ to Success 11:47:54 11:48:02 00:00:08
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TYPES
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RPO = 0 RPO > 1hr

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Sometimes called storage-based
replication, these solutions are deployed 1 2
inside the storage array and replicate
Ensures all data is written to the source and Uses storage snapshots to take a point-in-time
the entire LUN, regardless of its utilized
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capacity. They are designed for physical acknowledgment from both arrays before to the recovery site. The frequency is typically
rather than virtual infrastructures completing the operation. This relies on set on a schedule of hours, depending on the
and, as such, eliminate the benefits of matching storage arrays and close geographic number and frequency of snapshots that the
proximity between sites to achieve low fiber storage and application can withstand.
virtualization. channel latencies and minimize performance
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impact. With the rise of all-flash arrays (AFA),
There are two types of replication that can
latency of the connection between arrays
be deployed. becomes a bottleneck. Synchronous replication
also runs the risk of quickly propagating malware
and thus dramatically extending recovery times.
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RPO > 1hr RPO > 1hr RPO = secs

Comparing Technologies VM Snapshot- Guest-based Hypervisor-

based 3 4 based 5

Uses VM-level snapshots to take a point-in-time Otherwise known as agent- or OS-based With these solutions, all writes are captured,
Disaster Recovery at Scale copy of the data that has changed and sends it replication, these are software components that cloned, and sent to the recovery site at the
to the recovery site. The snapshots are created in must be installed on each physical and virtual hypervisor layer, making it more efficient,
the hypervisor and incur performance impact. It server. Although more portable than array-based accurate, and responsive than prior methods.
is not recommended to create, remove or leave solutions, the requirement to install modules on
Hypervisor-based replication uses continuous
VM-level snapshots running on production VMs every server limits scalability and is limited to
data protection (CDP) and is constantly
during working hours. only certain operating systems.
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When VM-level snapshots are being used the only Guest-based replication typically only support recovery site within seconds— it’s always on.
type of supported replication is asynchronous. asynchronous replication. As it runs on the This technology thus combines the best of both
The frequency of replication is typically operating system of the production systems synchronous and asynchronous replication. It
scheduled to occur every few hours due to the itself, it can impact the performance of these does not need to be scheduled, does not use
performance impact of this type of technology. systems. snapshots, and writes to the source storage
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PERIODIC VERSUS
CONTINUOUS
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BACKUP
Snapshots
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VM-level or storage-level technology), the 4+ hours
24+ hours CORRUPTION
replication occurs on a schedule. This 3:43PM
results in the potential for more data loss in
case of a disaster.
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This periodic approach also impacts the

granularity in recovery as checkpoints will
Snapshot BACKUP Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot
only be generated every few hours.
If we take the above example of a data corruption at 15:43, then a VM-level 24-hour snapshot-based replication solution means you are go-
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Continuous Data
Protection
Continuous data protection (CDP) utilizes
changed block tracking at the hypervisor
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written to storage. Because CDP replicates
only changed information, rather than an Easy Recovery to CHECKPOINT
image of the entire host or array, there
Any Point In Time 3:40PM
is no impact to the performance of the
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replicated VM.
4+ hours
Hypervisor-based CDP also utilizes 24+ hours CORRUPTION
3:43PM
journal technology to keep a log of all the
changes occurring in a specified journal
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timeframe, allowing point-in-time recovery
in increments of just seconds for the length
of the journal.
Snapshot BACKUP Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot

Because CDP is always on and always

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replicating the most recently changed data,
it offers considerably lower RPOs than
snapshot-based solutions. This results in
significantly less data loss to the business
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CDP IN BACKUP
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Backup typically uses snapshot-based
technology to protect virtual environments.
Because the data that is backed up is read
SNAPSHOTS VS CDP
directly from production systems, backups Storing multiple snapshots on replica VMs incurs
With journal-based protection, the journal is
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are almost always run at night to avoid a significant VM performance penalty if you
selected, without the performance impact of
attempt to power on the replica VM.
many snapshots.
“VM stun,” or any kind of application lag or
slowdown. Using snapshots on replicated VMs allows no
way of controlling the total space used for With journal-based protection, you can place the
When an environment is protected by CDP, snapshots, or the ability to store the data change journal on any datastore and place maximum size
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you can recover data from seconds ago on in terms of being able to set SLAs and define which could otherwise break replication and
maximum limits on the data space used by the recovery.
production grade systems within only a few snapshots.
minutes. Besides that, the recovery site can
With journaling technology, no extra space is
also be used as a source for longer term With snapshot-based replication, there is often
used in the source storage as no snapshots are
significant overhead on the storage arrays for
created. Only 7-10% of the target storage is
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typically used for the changed data, freeing up
both source and target storage in many cases.
concept of backup windows. significant amounts of disk space.

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AUTOMATION &
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ORCHESTRATION
The top hypervisor-based replication replication. Reports can be generated to
solutions include replication, recovery show the testing outcomes and prove
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automation, and orchestration all-in-one. the recovery capability. This enables
The VMs that form each application are organizations to increase the frequency
recovered together in consistency groups of DR testing, mitigate risk, and satisfy
from the same point-in-time. Boot-ordering compliance initiatives.
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online in the correct order, and re-IP or ANALYTICS
MAC addressing can be utilized if needed to
ensure there is no break in communication. Orchestration & Automation
This ensures an RTO of just minutes with
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no manual operations required since the
application is automatically recovered in a
working and consistent state. DISASTER OPERATIONAL LONG-TERM HYBRID, OPERATIONAL
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No-impact failover testing also enables
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this automated process to be tested
Continuous Data Protection
during working hours in minutes, with
no shutdown in production or break in
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APIs AND
SCRIPTING
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Although you’ll want to avoid solutions that
are overly dependent on scripting—which
will inhibit efficient scaling, even with
professional services—it’s inevitable that
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enterprise-scale deployments will need
open, REST APIs. The platforms that have
an API-first approach (potentially using
something like Swagger or Postman) will
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integrating systems together for effective,
automated DR.

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MULTI-SITE
MANAGEMENT
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As a business grows, typically so does its especially useful in seeing exactly how your
need to run multiple datacenters, and infrastructure is performing (e.g. in terms of
they’re often geographically diverse and storage or bandwidth consumed) as well as
potentially using disparate hardware plan for future growth.
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& vendors. A modern DR strategy must
account for all the various sites and clouds
being utilized, no matter where they’re
located, what hypervisor they’re on, or how
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Part of effective management will include

role-based access control (RBAC), but
it’s also important to have a single pane
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everything the organization is running.
On-Premis
A multi-site management platform can
Zerto CSP
show IT teams at a glance what the state
of their protection coverage is, as well as Azure
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highlight any critical issues that need to be AWS

addressed. Dynamic analytics, especially if IBM Cloud

it includes forecasting or modeling, can be

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UTILIZATION & COST & AUTOMATION LOCK-IN

Challenge: Snapshot solutions typically Challenge: Utilizing storage replication Challenge: Array-based replication
consume more than 20% of both the simply creates a copy of the data in the solutions are vendor-specific and require
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additional 5% of replication reserve space. testing or a DR event, it needs to either be and target sites. This can significantly
The cost and overheads of utilizing array- done manually using scripts, or by utilizing increase the TCO of the next storage refresh
based replication must therefore include an orchestration and automation solution. by having to buy new and matching storage
the cost per TB multiplied by the storage Due to the time it takes to recover manually arrays, just to configure replication. There
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usage of the snapshots and replication and the difficulty in conducting tests, an is no ability to mix storage vendors and
reservations. additional orchestration and automation technologies to get the best price-to-
solution is recommended. The cost of performance ratio in a recovery site, or to
Solution: The ability to recover to previous
purchasing the licensing of the additional introduce new storage vendors to improve
points in time is enabled by keeping a
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journal on the recovery site storage, which
should therefore be factored in.
dynamically grows and shrinks to the size Solution: Hypervisor-based replication
of the changes for the time it is configured Solution: Hypervisor-based solutions operates at the virtual, not physical layer,
to keep. include recovery automation and meaning it is inherently storage-agnostic.
Total Cost of Ownership orchestration features such as application- This allows you to buy or use any storage
consistent VM boot-ordering, re-IP/MAC in any site, reducing the TCO of your next
Forrester’s Total Economic
addressing and custom pre-/post-scripting, storage refresh and enabling the seamless
Impact of Zerto
in addition to the continuous replication adoption of new technology. Even if the
technology. This significantly reduces the same storage is used in both source and
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RTO as well as the cost and complexity of target sites, replicating from the hypervisor
managing multiple solutions. removes complexity to save on the cost of
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AS A SERVICE Control Costs
Gain greater predictability

(DRaaS)
of storage costs and choose
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for you.

Since a dedicated DR site can be expensive Why Consider DRaaS?

to maintain and scale, many organizations
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are looking to outsource DR to specialized
they are knowledgeable about getting
cloud providers who can manage it for
environments online quickly and can Diversify Data Protection
them. Replacing the direct and indirect
help you avoid common mistakes. Gain confidence with target
costs of secondary sites—including
They also serve as additional resources site diversification. Take
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that are focused on your datacenter global network of DR sites
a predictable monthly expense and high afforded by managed
recovery when you need it most. service providers.
burst capacity can be a very attractive
option. Look for service providers with a
deep background in data protection and, if
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required, proven expertise in your specific
industry or with your specific infrastructure
& workload requirements. Consider both Take DR to the Cloud
niche providers in your region as well major
Leverage a DRaaS provider to
The Future of Disaster Recovery players, such as those on Gartner’s Magic be your guide to the cloud.
Quadrant for DRaaS.

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CONVERGED
PLATFORMS OVER
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POINT SOLUTIONS
In recent years, both IT vendors and
IT customers have increasingly found
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consensus that continuous data
protection (CDP) provides the highest DISASTER
level of protection and DR readiness. The RECOVERY
emergence of robust CDP platforms has
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that, for example, only provide DR, only do
migrations, or only provide backup. The P L A T F O R M

future of DR lies with converged solutions

that offer DR, backup, cloud mobility, and
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on-demand operational services that cover BACKUP HYBRID CLOUD
the full breadth of what today’s modern IT
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MULTI-CLOUD DR
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The proliferation of hypervisor and
cloud options has not been without its
challenges, but IT teams are increasingly
poised to fully leverage the benefits for
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DR. New architectures and new models
Azure IBM Cloud Zerto CSP
are being unlocked as businesses look to
seamlessly move to, from, and between
clouds of all types. The ability to place
Azure IBM Cloud Zerto CSP
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means greater cost savings and greater
efficiencies. The DR platform of the future
will need to be more than simply cross-
hypervisor, but also allow IT organizations On-Premises On-Premises On-Premises
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to quickly configure and refigure their
deployments as the business evolves
without being locked into a single
technology or provider. When comparing
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with built-in analytics and multi-site
management tools that provide visibility
across all your clouds and environments.
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IT RESILIENCE
24/7
Many businesses have recently embraced “With IT Resilience, organizations can
strategic plans that move beyond DR as withstand any disaster, confidently
a reactive, standalone function within
embrace change and focus on business.” BUSINESS
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IT. Instead, DR needs can be met with
enterprise-class platforms that unlock

IT RESILIENCE
proactive, integrated IT functions. By
leveraging the future-forward features
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DR and backup alongside multi-cloud
mobility—organizations can be well on
their way to becoming IT resilient. IT 3 STEPS TO IT RESILIENCE
resilience is the ability for a business 72%
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to protect what exists today while
simultaneously innovating for the needs
Of companies have experi-
of tomorrow. It encompasses both enced an IT outage in the
Minimize Service Disruption Ensure Application Mobility Create Infrastructure
last year 1
the unplanned nature of DR and its Flexibility

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beneficial disruptions such as mergers & 70%
acquisitions, datacenter consolidations, 1 in 3
firms has had at least
and hardware refreshes. In that way, the Of enterprises that will have
one declared disaster
or major disruption
future of DR is not the narrow role it played a hyprid cloud strategy by
20192
during the past 5 years
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in yesterday’s transactional IT, but as an
expansive, strategic part of every resilient IT
organization. Sources:
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Gartner BCM survey (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3200321/survey-analysis--bcm-survey)
2
Gartner “The future of the Datacenter in the Cloud Era” (https://www.gartner.com/document/3079122?ref=unauthreader&srcId=1-3478922254) NEXT
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SO, WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE?
Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by eliminating the risk and complexity of modernization
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and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is
changing the way disaster recovery, backup and cloud are managed. At enterprise scale, Zerto’s software
platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload
mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted
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and more than 400 cloud services providers.

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