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Who is Zerto?
Zerto is a data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR) software company that provides continuous data replication, backup, and cyber-resilience for virtualized and cloud environments.
- Continuous data protection and DR for virtualized infrastructures and hybrid cloud
- Ransomware recovery and cyber-resilience capabilities for enterprise workloads
- Backup and long-term data retention across on-premises (on-prem) and cloud environments
- Orchestration and automation for failover, failback, and workload mobility
- Support for multiple hypervisors and public cloud platforms for infrastructure resilience
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More About Zerto
Zerto provides software-based data protection and DR that is typically deployed by enterprises to protect virtual machines and applications running in data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. Its platform focuses on continuous data protection (data protection) using near-synchronous replication, which enables recovery point objectives measured in seconds and recovery time objectives designed to reduce downtime for critical workloads. Organizations use Zerto to protect mission-critical applications, maintain business continuity, and support resilience strategies against hardware failures, site outages, and cyber incidents.
The Zerto platform (data protection) is generally categorized under DR as a service (DRaaS), backup and recovery, and cyber-resilience for virtualized and cloud-native environments. It integrates with hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, and with public cloud infrastructure platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Zerto uses virtual replication appliances that operate at the hypervisor level, which removes the requirement for array-based replication and enables heterogeneous storage environments. This architecture supports replication, recovery, and workload mobility across different storage systems and between on-prem and cloud locations.
Zerto employs journal-based continuous data protection (data protection) in which write operations are captured and stored in a journal for each protected Virtual Machine (VM). This approach allows enterprises to recover applications and data from points in time seconds apart within a defined journal window, which can help address logical corruption, user errors, or ransomware encryption by rolling back to an uncorrupted state. The platform also supports long-term retention for backup use cases by archiving recovery points to secondary storage or cloud object storage, which places Zerto within the broader backup and archive software category.
For DR orchestration (IT automation), Zerto provides constructs such as virtual protection groups that group dependent virtual machines together so they can be recovered consistently as a single entity. Administrators can define runbooks and automated workflows for failover, failback, and non-disruptive DR testing. These capabilities are used in enterprise environments to meet recovery Service Level Agreements (SLAs), demonstrate compliance, and support planned migrations or datacenter consolidations by moving workloads between sites or into cloud platforms.
In the context of cyber-resilience and ransomware recovery (security and resilience), Zerto enables recovery to pre-attack restore points and can integrate with security and monitoring workflows. Organizations use it to create isolated recovery environments for validation and forensics before bringing applications back into production. Because it supports replication and recovery across multiple sites and clouds, Zerto is also used for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, including cloud-bursting scenarios, dev/test environments in the cloud, and permanent migration of workloads with minimal downtime.
Within an enterprise technology directory, Zerto can be categorized under DR software, continuous data protection, backup and recovery, and cyber-resilience. Its current solution areas span workload protection for virtualized infrastructures, hybrid and multi-cloud data protection, ransomware and cyber-attack recovery, and orchestration for business continuity and IT resilience planning. These offerings are adopted by enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations that require low recovery point and recovery time objectives, flexible deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure, and automation for DR operations.
Our description of Zerto. Updated December 2025.
