Zerto Partnering With IBM

Zerto Ltd announced that it is partnering with IBM Services to provide the replication engine behind IBM’s resiliency orchestration solution.

Specifically, Zerto IT Resilience Platform will be available to IBM customers through the IBM resiliency orchestration DRaaS solution for simplified, rapid recovery of virtual infrastructure.

Resiliency orchestration DRaaS solution stands as an offering to help organisations recover all of their virtual and physical workloads, whether running on an IBM mainframe, IBM Power AIX, IBM System I, Sun Solaris or HP-UX system, and to ensure coordinated application recovery throughout.

This is significant, as the offering automates the workflow of DR for a customer’s complete heterogeneous environment to provide a more predictable, simplified and always-on operation that leads to reduced risk, cost, testing and recovery time.

IBM resiliency orchestration is for DR and cyber resiliency, and is available on customer premises, IBM Cloud and resiliency data centres. It is available as both software and a managed service.

The offering has the capability to include Zerto’s replication technology, the complete VMware stack and the end-to-end IBM managed services using IBM’s resiliency orchestration tool, all in a single dashboard.

IBM resiliency orchestration solution, with replication technology by Zerto, aims to: 

• Simplify DR operations
• Ensure DR readiness on-premise and/or across multiple clouds
• Reduce complexity and risk
• Save time with smarter automation
• Improve reporting and BCDR testing across systems
• Enable a lifecycle approach to recovery

“With the help of Zerto’s replication technology, IBM customers can quickly recover their virtualised workloads regardless of the underlying technologies. The combined solution helps solve many IT resilience challenges that enterprise organisations face when working with legacy applications that take advantage of virtual and physical infrastructure,” said Mehran Hadipour, director of global business development, Zerto.

“Simplicity across the hybrid IT landscape is a crucial component of the IBM resiliency orchestration solution, and it is well-known for its ease of use and viability in a client’s recovery posture. Many of our enterprise clients are looking for a provider to manage their complete DR environment, which often includes multiple clouds and underlying technologies like mainframes or other physical devices. By partnering with Zerto, we’re able to use best-of-breed continuous availability to give our customers exactly what they’re looking for in a simple and seamless model,” said Daniel Witteveen, VP, global portfolio, IBM resiliency services.