What is new in Zerto 8?

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I was recently lucky enough to be invited to attend the first vRetreat event of 2020, albeit virtually! One of the sponsors for the event was Zerto. For those of you that don’t know, Zerto provides customers with a disaster recovery and backup platform that enables digital transformation, reduces downtime and data loss, and helps businesses move workloads seamlessly across clouds or datacenters.

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During the presentation, Steve Blow, SE Manager at Zerto, focused on updating us on Zerto 8.0 which was released in March.

Steve touched upon the vision for Zerto 7 providing:

  • Restore data from a recent copy from minutes to days old

  • Recover from disaster events to a remote site and/or cloud

  • Retain data for years to keep regulators happy

  • Move applications and data without disruption

The new release of Zerto 8.0 supports and further enhances this vision, embraces cloud and increases their ability to help tackle the ever growing need for DR.

The first announcement that Steve spoke about was that Zerto have partnered with Google to introduce their IT resilience platform to Google Cloud. This update goes GA in June, and will mean that Zerto 8.0 will enable users to protect and migrate native VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform which gives customers more choice in a multi-cloud world .

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Another announcement that Steve covered was Long-Term retention with AWS storage Gateway at enterprise-scale for data protection and other low-cost long-term data retention requirements, such as archiving.

Zerto allows you to migrate and recover entire multi-VM applications to and from AWS in the event of an individual application failure, site-wide outage, or as part of a planned migration.

For more information, download the data sheet.

Steve also discussed the New recovery user interface and rapid reverse protection for workload mobility which allows you to freely migrate, conduct tests and perform failovers with more availability. The new interface is a single pane of glass for data protection reporting with status performance and capacity reporting of protected workloads.

Throughout the session, Steve also touched on a few more areas of the technology that are advancing and how these enhance the offering of Zerto 8.0. These included:

  • Zerto’s failback functionality as part of the cost-effective incremental snapshots of Azure managed disks is now available across ALL regions.

  • New unified alert management with prioritized views of critical alerts and customization for users to receive the alerts exactly when needed for critical operations.

  • New impact analysis capability to mitigate risk of an organization’s protected and unprotected environment for on-premises or cloud.

  • New resource planning view of Unprotected VM’s for better insight into an organizations’ unprotected VMs.

  • Additional features to automate and streamline the processes for failover and configuration in the public cloud with automated OS configuration, automatic failback configuration and more.

For more information on the new release, click here.

Zerto 8.0 sets the foundation for the future of data protection and this was made extremely clear with the sneak peak Steve gave us into what is next for Zerto including It resiliency and containers.