Assured Data Protection has launched a new disaster recovery service built on Zerto software and aimed at organisations running VMware and other hypervisor platforms amid growing uncertainty over their long-term infrastructure strategy.
The service provider said the offering targets enterprises that run mixed virtualisation estates and want aggressive recovery point and recovery time objectives for critical applications, regardless of the underlying compute or storage hardware.
This uses Zerto’s host-based replication technology. Assured said this extends its disaster recovery portfolio for customers that currently rely on VMware and other hypervisors but want to keep options open for future migrations.
Assured is positioning the service for organisations that are reviewing virtualisation plans following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. Many customers are assessing rising licensing costs and changes in support arrangements and are considering alternative platforms such…
