Cumulus partners Zerto to provide disaster recovery for Lankan enterprises

Cumulus, the cloud solutions arm of Dialog Axiata has partnered with Zerto to provide Sri Lankan enterprises with real-time Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), designed specifically for critical business applications using hybrid cloud solutions. Enterprises of all sizes are deploying applications on virtualized IT infrastructure of their own and public clouds by adopting a hybrid cloud strategy. 
The benefits of cloud virtualization include flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness. Near synchronous replication help customers who are adopting cloud platforms achieve true business continuity for their critical applications hosted at their production data centers in the event of any service outage.
Zerto’s award winning Virtual Replication platform is the industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution for tier-one applications, which is a software-only, enterprise-class replication solution - purpose-built for virtual environments. This enables enterprises to simplify business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) and reduce storage costs. Zerto Virtual Replication is able to deliver orchestration and automation of the entire site-to-site disaster recovery process within a few clicks. 
“Zerto Disaster Recovery as a Service is the ideal blend of what customers require to protect their important applications and data,” said Navin Pieris, Head of Broadband and Fixed Telecommunication Services of Dialog Axiata PLC. “Customers can rest assured, knowing that their workloads, no matter the type, size or scope, will be protected and recovered quickly with minimal impact on operations in the event of a disaster or outage,” he adds. Further Cumulus, with its ISO 27001:2013 certified state-of-the-art data centers and cloud offerings backed by the world’s leading technology providers,offer affordable and unparalleled bundled cloud solutions to its esteemed customers. 
“We developed Zerto Virtual Replication to transform the way that organizations think about and execute their BC and DR strategies, and provide IT resilience for the evolving needs of technology,” said Andrew Martin, Managing Director, APJ, Zerto. “Our technology is rapidly becoming the DR standard in cloud environments. With Zerto Virtual Replication, BC and DR is part of the virtualized infrastructure, making it easy for Dialog Axiata to offer DRaaS capabilities to its clients.”