Austin Radiological Association Chooses Zerto Virtual Replication

Zerto announced that
Zerto Virtual Replication will be used by Austin Radiological Association (ARA)
for disaster recovery as part of an effort to implement a virtualized data
center.

ARA is already 25% virtualized and is moving to completely revamp its
infrastructure over the next 12 months.

"We believe that the virtual machine is the
new atomic unit for replication strategies," said R. Todd Thomas,
Chief Information Officer, ARA. "Zerto
works at the virtualization level, which allows us greater flexibility in the
type of storage we replicate to and removes the limitations around LUN-based
consistency groups. This solution adds a deeper level of control of recovery
time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) in a virtual
environment than traditional replication methods."

Zerto is a hypervisor-based
business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) solution, which replicates
data within the virtual infrastructure instead of in physical storage. By
moving replication to the hypervisor, companies gain all the benefits of
virtualization, including flexibility, mobility and scalability in their
disaster recovery solutions. Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication combines the
enterprise features of physical replication with the flexibility, ease of
management and control, and scalability of virtual environments.

"We are proud ARA selected Zerto Virtual
Replication as they are working to build a transformational data center at the
cutting edge of technology adoption not just for the healthcare industry, but
for all enterprise data centers," said Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto. "Working with ARA builds validation for the
value of Zerto in the data intensive healthcare enterprise."

ARA’s IT department
comprises over 40 people managing almost 800 TB of data. This team is
responsible for all IT areas including desktop support, development and data
center operations. It also hosts a SaaS service offering hospitals and doctors’
offices the ability to outsource their medical image management and storage to
ARA.

"We were very impressed during our tests of Zerto;
it offered ease-of-use, flexibility and the ability to set RPO/RTO,"
said Jack Yudell, Datacenter Operations Manager, ARA. "We
loved all the knobs and switches that did everything promised."

ARA provides diagnostic imaging services to the
people of Austin and Central
Texas, with 15 outpatient imaging centers and 90 radiologists on
staff. Its imaging centers offer everything from mammography to MRI, and its
specialty centers, such as the ARA Women’s Imaging
Center and the ARA Children’s Imaging Center (pediatric radiology), cater to
the special needs of specific patient groups.