City of Cape Coral Improves Municipal Efficiency and Eliminates Downtime Using Zerto's Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Software
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Posted on October 13, 2015 at 7:49:02 AM
City of Cape Coral Improves Municipal Efficiency and Eliminates Downtime Using Zerto's Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Software
City's IT Department Achieves Data Center Virtualization Goal to Reduce OPEX and Environmental Impact, While Exceeding Audit Requirements to Protect Key ERP and HR Systems
BOSTON, October 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Zerto [http://www.zerto.com ], setting the standard for protection, recovery and
migration of data in cloud and virtualized data centers, today announced the City of Cape
Coral, Florida has significantly improved municipal efficiency by supporting major
business applications using Zerto's business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) software,
Zerto Virtual Replication. The city's IT department has achieved its data center
virtualization goal to reduce OPEX and environmental impact, while exceeding its audit
requirements to protect key enterprise resource planning (ERP) and HR applications. With
Zerto Virtual Replication, the City of Cape Coral's IT department has also met their
recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for enterprise
applications such as JD Edwards
[http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/jd-edwards-enterpriseone/overview/index.html ]
and Kronos [http://www.kronos.com ]. Additionally, they can now quickly replicate
applications off-site to a secondary data center, and reduce testing and development time
to support seamless migration to their production environment.
The City of Cape Coral began virtualizing its IT environment in 2005 to conserve space
and lower administrative costs in its data center. It also established a goal of
virtualizing 95 percent of its primary business applications. After multiple audits of
potential solutions, the City of Cape Coral couldn't find a suitable solution that was
efficient, and delivered within budget all while eliminating downtime by decreasing RPO
and RTO. After extensive evaluation based on a recommendation from Zerto reseller partner,
Alturna Tech, the City of Cape Coral chose Zerto Virtual Replication. They found it
allowed them to achieve their data center goals while using their own custom hardware to
increase their ROI.
Zerto Virtual Replication provides the city with a highly efficient and easy to use
solution that meets aggressive RPO and RTO goals for each audit report. Zerto's
software-based technology uses asynchronous replication at the hypervisor level to capture
the data before it is even written to the storage layer in order to be the closest to zero
RPO as possible. Zerto's software also lowers the City of Cape Coral's RTO in several ways
that reduce the recovery time of their servers, including:
- Putting the servers in affinity groupings that logically go together, either by
tiers or by service or application support. Zerto calls these Virtual Protection
Groups (VPGs).
- Integrating the orchestration and replication tools for administrative efficiency.
- Thoroughly and routinely performing failover tests to allow Cape Coral to more
effectively manage all aspects of their failover operation and ensure success in the
event of a disaster.
Supporting QuotesÂ
Fidel Deforte, ICT Manager, City of Cape Coral
"Zerto is continuously providing new, industry-leading innovations such as Zerto
Virtual Replication that answered the critical needs of our municipal IT environment,
while meeting our specific criteria on every level. With Zerto Virtual Replication, we
were able to provide instant data management solutions with minimal issues and overhead,
while eliminating downtime. The fact that Zerto can be installed in any infrastructure
anywhere and work flawlessly, while providing a smooth transition failover to and failback,
assured us that our partnership with Zerto will be a successful one for years to come."
Ziv Kedem, CEO, ZertoÂ
"Municipal IT departments nationwide are increasingly realizing the critical
importance of maintaining and improving operational efficiency by better supporting major
business applications and protecting their infrastructure from failed disaster recovery
efforts. Any downtime to a city's virtualized infrastructure would likely shut the city
down, which is unacceptable. We're pleased to be able to provide Cape Coral with
comprehensive, around-the-clock protection of their critical business applications across
multiple IT infrastructures. With ZVR, Cape Coral's IT department is better equipped to
meet their critical operational requirements, while reducing variable capital costs."
Supporting ResourcesÂ
- About Zerto for Partners [http://www.zerto.com/partners ]
- About Zerto Virtual Replication
[http://www.zerto.com/bcdr-for-enterprises/data-replication ]
About City of Cape CoralÂ
The City of Cape Coral is the largest city in southwest Florida. Surrounded with over
400 miles of navigational waterways from the Gulf of Mexico, Cape Coral has more miles of
canals than any other city in the world, granting it the title of Waterfront Wonderland.
The Information Technology Services (ITS) Department provides all technology support and
management for the City of Cape Coral, and its 38 Wide Area Network (WAN) connected sites,
and redundant, hardened data centers local and remote.
About Alturna-TechÂ
Alturna-Tech is a high impact IT Solutions Provider that is committed to delivering
robust, disruptive and innovative technology solutions that are driven to break the data
center status quo and focus on transforming enterprise infrastructures into relevant
business value.
About Zerto
Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative,
simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto
Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized
workloads between public, private and hybrid clouds. The company's flagship product, Zerto
Virtual Replication, has become the standard for protection, recovery and migration of
applications in cloud and virtualized data centers, and won numerous awards, including
Best of Show at VMworld 2011, Best of VMworld Europe 2014, as well as 2011, 2012 and 2013
Product of the Year Awards for its innovative hypervisor-based replication approach. For
more information, go to http://www.zerto.com.
Contacts:
Zerto, Inc
Erik Mason
erik.mason@zerto.com
+1-617-379-3736
Matter Communications for Zerto (US)
Matthew Farhadi or Tim Hurley
zerto@matternow.com
+1-978-358-5832
Zerto
City's IT Department Achieves Data Center Virtualization Goal to Reduce OPEX and Environmental Impact, While Exceeding Audit Requirements to Protect Key ERP and HR Systems
BOSTON, October 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Zerto [http://www.zerto.com ], setting the standard for protection, recovery and
migration of data in cloud and virtualized data centers, today announced the City of Cape
Coral, Florida has significantly improved municipal efficiency by supporting major
business applications using Zerto's business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) software,
Zerto Virtual Replication. The city's IT department has achieved its data center
virtualization goal to reduce OPEX and environmental impact, while exceeding its audit
requirements to protect key enterprise resource planning (ERP) and HR applications. With
Zerto Virtual Replication, the City of Cape Coral's IT department has also met their
recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for enterprise
applications such as JD Edwards
[http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/jd-edwards-enterpriseone/overview/index.html ]
and Kronos [http://www.kronos.com ]. Additionally, they can now quickly replicate
applications off-site to a secondary data center, and reduce testing and development time
to support seamless migration to their production environment.
The City of Cape Coral began virtualizing its IT environment in 2005 to conserve space
and lower administrative costs in its data center. It also established a goal of
virtualizing 95 percent of its primary business applications. After multiple audits of
potential solutions, the City of Cape Coral couldn't find a suitable solution that was
efficient, and delivered within budget all while eliminating downtime by decreasing RPO
and RTO. After extensive evaluation based on a recommendation from Zerto reseller partner,
Alturna Tech, the City of Cape Coral chose Zerto Virtual Replication. They found it
allowed them to achieve their data center goals while using their own custom hardware to
increase their ROI.
Zerto Virtual Replication provides the city with a highly efficient and easy to use
solution that meets aggressive RPO and RTO goals for each audit report. Zerto's
software-based technology uses asynchronous replication at the hypervisor level to capture
the data before it is even written to the storage layer in order to be the closest to zero
RPO as possible. Zerto's software also lowers the City of Cape Coral's RTO in several ways
that reduce the recovery time of their servers, including:
- Putting the servers in affinity groupings that logically go together, either by
tiers or by service or application support. Zerto calls these Virtual Protection
Groups (VPGs).
- Integrating the orchestration and replication tools for administrative efficiency.
- Thoroughly and routinely performing failover tests to allow Cape Coral to more
effectively manage all aspects of their failover operation and ensure success in the
event of a disaster.
Supporting QuotesÂ
Fidel Deforte, ICT Manager, City of Cape Coral
"Zerto is continuously providing new, industry-leading innovations such as Zerto
Virtual Replication that answered the critical needs of our municipal IT environment,
while meeting our specific criteria on every level. With Zerto Virtual Replication, we
were able to provide instant data management solutions with minimal issues and overhead,
while eliminating downtime. The fact that Zerto can be installed in any infrastructure
anywhere and work flawlessly, while providing a smooth transition failover to and failback,
assured us that our partnership with Zerto will be a successful one for years to come."
Ziv Kedem, CEO, ZertoÂ
"Municipal IT departments nationwide are increasingly realizing the critical
importance of maintaining and improving operational efficiency by better supporting major
business applications and protecting their infrastructure from failed disaster recovery
efforts. Any downtime to a city's virtualized infrastructure would likely shut the city
down, which is unacceptable. We're pleased to be able to provide Cape Coral with
comprehensive, around-the-clock protection of their critical business applications across
multiple IT infrastructures. With ZVR, Cape Coral's IT department is better equipped to
meet their critical operational requirements, while reducing variable capital costs."
Supporting ResourcesÂ
- About Zerto for Partners [http://www.zerto.com/partners ]
- About Zerto Virtual Replication
[http://www.zerto.com/bcdr-for-enterprises/data-replication ]
About City of Cape CoralÂ
The City of Cape Coral is the largest city in southwest Florida. Surrounded with over
400 miles of navigational waterways from the Gulf of Mexico, Cape Coral has more miles of
canals than any other city in the world, granting it the title of Waterfront Wonderland.
The Information Technology Services (ITS) Department provides all technology support and
management for the City of Cape Coral, and its 38 Wide Area Network (WAN) connected sites,
and redundant, hardened data centers local and remote.
About Alturna-TechÂ
Alturna-Tech is a high impact IT Solutions Provider that is committed to delivering
robust, disruptive and innovative technology solutions that are driven to break the data
center status quo and focus on transforming enterprise infrastructures into relevant
business value.
About Zerto
Zerto is committed to keeping enterprise and cloud IT running 24/7 by providing innovative,
simple, reliable and scalable business continuity software solutions. Through the Zerto
Cloud Continuity Platform, organizations can seamlessly move and protect virtualized
workloads between public, private and hybrid clouds. The company's flagship product, Zerto
Virtual Replication, has become the standard for protection, recovery and migration of
applications in cloud and virtualized data centers, and won numerous awards, including
Best of Show at VMworld 2011, Best of VMworld Europe 2014, as well as 2011, 2012 and 2013
Product of the Year Awards for its innovative hypervisor-based replication approach. For
more information, go to http://www.zerto.com.
Contacts:
Zerto, Inc
Erik Mason
erik.mason@zerto.com
+1-617-379-3736
Matter Communications for Zerto (US)
Matthew Farhadi or Tim Hurley
zerto@matternow.com
+1-978-358-5832
Zerto