Editorial

Zerto ensures application availability in the public sector

Zerto is working with public sector organisations to improve and simplify application availability and mobility for virtualised workloads

Posted 15 April 2021 by Christine Horton


No organisation can afford downtime. From 24/7 continuous patient care in hospitals, to interruption-free airline travel, to keeping e-commerce systems running without a hitch, the path to an always-available world starts with Continuous Data Protection (CDP).

In the public sector, organisations are facing the same challenges around application availability and mobility as their private sector counterparts. However, while the private sector sees increasing growth and preventing ‘lost’ revenue often as a driving factor, in the public sector efficiency and overall cost and risk reduction are much more prevalent.

At the same time, a public sector organisation might often feel frustrated with paying for redundant infrastructure to facilitate a disaster recovery environment or is striving to improve and simplify application mobility to mitigate against planned disruptions and events.

Organisations face shrinking backup windows and pressure to have applications available 24×7, while dealing with regulatory pressure for auditable DR testing that has no impact on production workloads. Elsewhere they are looking to reduce the number of tools required to provide application protection and mobility to simplify the environment and reduce software and ongoing operational costs.

There is also the increasing threat of attacks such as ransomware. It’s not a matter of if, but when organisations get hit by ransomware. Zerto’s fully automated failover and failback recovers corrupt applications and data to within minutes of when the infection took place, helping reduce disruptions to business operations and ensure organisations achieve cyber-resilience.

Public sector organisations need a solution that is agnostic to the underlying infrastructure or cloud platform to avoid technology lock-in and make better choices for their business needs.

Zerto Platform

Zerto helps its 9500+ customers realise Continuous Data Protection through its Zerto Platform, an all-in-one converged disaster recovery and backup platform that enables digital transformation, reduces downtime and data loss, and helps businesses move workloads seamlessly across clouds or data centres.

Zerto works with customers who are challenged with protecting their business applications from unplanned disruptions such as:

  • IT outages
  • Ransomware / virus attacks
  • Logical corruption
  • Accidental or malicious data deletion
  • Natural disasters

Protect: Disaster recovery and backup, down to the second. CDP is the future of data protection. By using journal-based technology to log all changes occurring within a specified time frame, CDP delivers point-in-time recovery with RPOs of seconds.

Simplify: Simplify migrations with complete automation and orchestration. Gain complete mobility with support for any infrastructure including public cloud, 350+ managed service providers, and both vSphere and Hyper-V environments. Supporting virtualised containers and SaaS application workloads.

Modernise: Manage your data protection and mobility across any site or platform. Whether moving applications to or between clouds, or protecting onsite applications against disruptions, multi-cloud agility simplifies and manages disaster recovery and backup without the need for a second data centre.

Zerto in the public sector

Zerto is working with public sector organisations to improve and simplify application availability and mobility for virtualised workloads.

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust provides healthcare in-hospital and to the community of 258,000 people. To ensure the highest quality of patient care, its important employees have access to patient data and that all technology remains operational. After a legacy storage array failed, and it took them a significant amount of time and effort to get back up, Southport and Ormskirk knew they needed a better BC/DR solution.

With Zerto, Southport and Ormskirk were able to get their new BC/DR solution up and running in less than an hour, is able to recover in less than five hours, and can prove successful failover to auditors.

Elsewhere, Surrey County Council (SCC) is one of the largest local government organisations in the UK, providing essential services to more than 1.2 million residents and supporting the work of 11 local authorities operating within the region. Many of these services rely on 24/7 availability of applications and information to effectively support local communities, such as social housing and police and fire & rescue services.

SCC demanded a disaster recovery plan that was robust, secure, provided aggressive SLAs, and reduced cost. With Zerto, SCC was able to reduce RPOs and RTOs to seconds and minutes, see a significant cost reduction, and consolidate into one, easy to use solution.

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