Zerto

Zerto provides disaster recovery, ransomware resilience and workload mobility software for virtualized infrastructures and cloud environments.^[1] Zerto is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company which is headquartered in Spring, Texas, USA.

Zerto

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Computer software
Founded	2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Founder	Oded Kedem Ziv Kedem
Headquarters	Spring, Texas
Key people	Ziv Kedem (CEO) Amir Idar (VP of Engineering)
Products	Zerto, Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault, Zerto Backup for SaaS
Parent	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Website	zerto.com

History

Ziv Kedem, Zerto's founder and CEO, previously co-founded Kashya.^[2] Zerto has received investments from venture capital firms such as 83North (formerly Greylock IL), Battery Ventures, Harmony Partners, RTP Ventures, IVP, and USVP.^[3] In 2016, the company was ranked #45 on the Deloitte Fast 500 North America list.^[4][5]

Zerto was bought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2021 for $374 million.^[6][7]

Products

Zerto simplifies the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s simple, software-only solution uses continuous data protection at scale to solve for ransomware resilience, disaster recovery and data mobility across private, public, and hybrid deployments. Zerto supports VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and more than 350 managed service providers.^[8]

Zerto provides disaster recovery software for virtualized and cloud infrastructures.^[9] The company's original product, Zerto Virtual Replication, was released in August 2011.^[10] The technology leverages 'hypervisor-based replication', which moves data replication up the server stack from the storage layer into the hypervisor.

Zerto Backup for SaaS powered by Keepit introduced in 2021 provides a simple cloud backup built on the world’s only secure cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection and includes support for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Zendesk, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics, and Microsoft Active directory.^[11]

References

1. Crocetti, Paul (February 2019). "Zerto IT Resilience Platform 6.0". TechTarget: SearchDataBackup (Press release).
2. "Zero RTO with Zerto, Replication and Disaster Recovery the easy way". www.gabesvirtualworld.com.
3. Press, Gil (27 July 2015). "Zerto CEO Is Creating A 'Build To Last' Company, Betting On The Cloud And IT Transformation". Forbes.
4. "2016 Winners by rank" (PDF). Deloitte. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
5. Crocetti, Paul (February 2019). "Zerto IT Resilience Platform 6.0". TechTarget: SearchDataBackup (Press release).
6. "Hewlett Packard Enterprise Completes Acquisition of Zerto" (Press release). Zerto. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
7. "Company Fast Facts" (PDF). Zerto. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
8. "Zerto Cited as a Contender among Data Resilience Solutions Suites by Independent Research Firm". www.businesswire.com. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
9. Xiong, Huanhuan; Fowley, Frank; Pahl, Claus. "An Architecture Pattern for Multi-Cloud High Availability and Disaster Recovery". p. 4. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.725.4460.
10. "Zerto Launches Self, Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Service". eWeek. 16 August 2011.
11. "Zerto Announces Zerto Backup for SaaS, powered by Keepit - Industry-Leading Backup and Recovery Solution for Managing and Protecting Cloud SaaS Data". www.businesswire.com. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2023.