Protecting Your Microsoft 365 Data: Why Third-Party Backups are Critical in the Battle Against Ransomware
Introduction In an era of increasing cybersecurity threats, ransomware attacks have emerged as one of the most significant threats to organizations worldwide. These attacks can encrypt an organization’s critical data, rendering it inaccessible until a ransom is paid. Microsoft 365, a widely used productivity suite, is not immune to such threats. While Microsoft provides some…
Keep readingTitle: Safeguarding Your Digital Identity: The Importance of Backing Up Azure AD
Introduction: In today’s digital landscape, where organizations rely heavily on cloud-based services, safeguarding critical data and ensuring business continuity is of paramount importance. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) plays a crucial role as the identity and access management platform for Microsoft cloud services. In this blog post, we will explore why backing up Azure AD…
Keep reading🔬 Exploring the Excitement of Zerto’s Free Hands-On Labs: An Insider’s Perspective 🆓
As a proud member of the Zerto technical marketing team, I couldn’t be more thrilled to share my personal experience with Zerto’s Hands-On Labs. These labs have become an integral part of my journey in the world of IT, providing an immersive and practical learning environment that continues to impress me. Join me as I…
Keep readingEmpowering Robust Disaster Recovery with Zerto for Azure
Introduction: In today’s dynamic digital landscape, ensuring business continuity through robust disaster recovery (DR) solutions is paramount. Zerto for Azure stands out as a technically advanced and efficient choice, offering seamless DR capabilities within the Azure cloud environment. In this blog post, we will explore the technical intricacies of Zerto for Azure, supported by statistics…
Keep readingZerto Migrations – Between Storage Systems
Are you considering migrating your data from one storage product to another? It can be a daunting task, but with the right tools and strategy, it can be done smoothly and with minimal disruption. One of the most popular tools for data migration is Zerto. Zerto is a software-based platform that specializes in disaster recovery,…
Keep readingThe Impact of Isolated Recovery Environments on Disaster Recovery and Ransomware Protection
Introduction Ransomware attacks have become a significant threat to businesses, causing extensive damage and financial loss. 61% or DR responses triggered last year were due to ransomware. To mitigate this risk, companies have been implementing various security measures, including the use of isolated recovery environments. In this article, we will discuss how isolated recovery environments…
Keep readingZerto Certified Associate Exam
The Training Team At Zerto has redesigned and relaunched the all-new Zerto Certified Associate (ZCA) qualification. The ZCA is a training and certification program designed to help IT professionals understand the fundamentals of disaster recovery and data protection utilising the Zerto solution. This course is perfect for those who want to specialize in the field…
Keep readingZerto now supports UEFI in AWS
Zerto, the industry leader in cloud data management and protection, has recently announced that it now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) UEFI. This exciting news means that Zerto users can now enjoy even more flexibility and choice when it comes to running their workloads on AWS. UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a modern…
Keep readingWhat is Zerto Backup for SaaS
The title is pretty self explanatory really, I’m going to run through what Zerto Backup for SaaS is, how it works and some of the advantages I see of using it. The What? Well the naming of the product couldn’t be more explanatory really, it is Zerto’s offering for backing up your SaaS Data, very…
Keep readingIntroducing Zerto 9.5 – Part 3
Immutability and Offsite Repository Additions Azure Storage Account Immutability With the astronomic rise of ransomware attacks, organizations are being even more wary about where and how they store copies of their data for recovery purposes, as many of you may know already Zerto supports a wide variety of storage platforms for its offsite repository or…
Keep readingIntroducing Zerto 9.5 – Part 2
Independant Scratch Journal Settings Thanks for reading the second part of this blog all about Zerto 9.5, in this post in going to look at another great feature Zerto has released, the ability to split out journal volumes and scratch volumes settings. So for people who are newer to Zerto, what is a scratch volume…
Keep readingIntroducing Zerto 9.5 – Part 1
No Sync Feature I’m going to write a short series on Newly released Features hat make up the Zerto 9.5 release Once I have experienced the new features a little more I will do a second series deep diving some of the new features and functionality inside Zerto 9.5 As a long time Zerto user…
Keep readingZerto Launches Instructor Led Training!
For the first time in Zerto’s history customers, partners and prospects are now able to gain valuable expertise and knowledge in the Zerto solution from a qualified instructor. Managing Zerto: Setup,Protection, and Recovery is the title of the course which is aimed at all experience levels looking to solidify their zerto knowledge to makes sure…
Keep readingDR at Scale in AWS – The Zerto Way
Last week i had the pleasure of attending AWS Re-Invent in Vegas, I spoke to a lot of people and it reminded me of how much I have missed these type of events recently! I had the pleasure of speaking to some of Zerto’s customers who are already achieving their DR or migration goals utilizing…
Keep readingIn, out, in, out, Zerto it all about!
Zerto autoscaling, up and down! First of all I am going to apologise for the terrible title, I don’t know what came over me. In this blog i am going to run you through how Zerto can scale up and down with your environment to make sure Zerto is always right sized for the amount…
Keep readingZerto 9.0u2 – MSP & API Improvements
Hey everyone just a quick post today about the new Zerto version that has been released recently, they’re is a couple of things I want to point out that I think are worth noting! Swagger API for the ZVM now anyone who loves a little bit of automation will love the API , i actually…
Keep readingZerto Long Term Retention with HPE Cloud Volumes
Hi All, today I am going to attempt to set up HPE Cloud Volumes as a repo for Zerto to store its Long Term Retention data. this is something completely new to me so hopefully we can all learn something on the way. so let’s look at the steps needed to create the backup store…
Keep readingLong Term Retention with HPE StoreOnce
Hey All I just wanted to run people by what I am using for my Long Term Retention Repo in my home lab. I am using the HPE StoreOnce Virtual Appliance to store my long term retention copies from Zerto on – simply this is a an OVF appliance that i’ve deployed into my environment…
Keep readingZerto For Kubernetes Hands-On-Lab
So i’ve started my journey into the world of containers and have found loads of resources available to help me understand the concepts. Obviously I have been taking a look at Zerto for Kubernetes (Z4K), i’ve been reading documentation and watching videos and presentations and gained loads of knowledge from these resources. The one thing…
Keep readingZLS Day 2
Hi All, I hope you have all read my ZLS deployment guide blog and found it useful in deploying your own ZLS into your environments. I thought I would do a follow up on a few things I have noticed now I have it imbedded in my setup. ZLS seems to be relatively set and…
Keep readingZLS Deployment Walkthrough
Hi Everyone I was playing around with the new Zerto Licence Server recently and have deployed it into my lab at home, I then thought, maybe other folks would find it useful to have a walkthrough guide as this is a new component to the Zerto stack… So here it is: ZLS Overview Firstly what…
Keep readingZerto Cloud Manager
Hi All, in this series i am going to be looking at a deepdive into the Zerto Cloud Manager(ZCM), the ZCM is a component normally deployed by our service providers but can equally be used by End User customers aswell. Some of the features the ZCM brings are: Multi-Tenancy Support Resource allocation Organisations or “ZORG”…
Keep readingNew in Zerto 9 – JFLR from ZSSP
With my service provider background holding a large place in my heart i am always extra excited when new features in Zerto land that are aimed directly at our service providers. one of these features in Zerto 9 is the ability to enable tenants to restore files and folders directly back into production VM’s or…
Keep readingZerto’s First Appearance in the Gartner Enterprise Backup & Recovery MQ!
Zerto reached a huge milestone in its history by making it into the Gartner MQ for Backup and Recovery for the first time. in my opinion this is a huge step as Zerto has its roots in the Disaster Recovery Sector. I believe this is even more significant as the MQ placement was…
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