Overview
Zerto is a software-only platform for disaster recovery, ransomware resilience and workload mobility, owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise[5]. HPE bought the company for a net cash price of US$374 million in a deal announced on 1 July 2021 and closed by early September 2021; at that time Zerto was co-headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and Boston, had about 500 employees and around 9,000 customers, including more than 350 managed service providers[6]. Its defining technology is continuous data protection: near-synchronous streaming replication of every write, held in a journal so that a workload can be rolled back to a point only seconds before a failure or encryption event. Zerto states that restore points are separated by 5 to 15 seconds and that the approach avoids snapshot-based replication[5]. Supported environments include VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and VMware running in public clouds, and immutable copies can be kept in Azure Blob, Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage. A Cyber Resilience Vault provides an air-gapped recovery option[5]. Zerto is strongest for virtualised and cloud workloads; it does not position itself as a general long-term backup product.
Zerto features
- Continuous data protection with write journal
- Restore points 5-15 seconds apart
- Cyber Resilience Vault for air-gapped recovery
- Immutable copies in Azure Blob or Amazon S3
- Replication across vSphere, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud
- Workload mobility and migration
Zerto pricing
Zerto does not publish list prices on its site; licensing is handled through HPE and partners. A free trial can be requested from the Zerto website.
Zerto strengths and limitations
Strengths
- RPOs measured in seconds
- Journal allows rollback to just before an attack
- Hypervisor- and cloud-agnostic replication
- Long track record with MSPs
Limitations
- Not a long-term retention backup product
- Pricing not published
- Strongest for virtualised workloads rather than physical servers
- Commercial process now runs through HPE
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