The new Predatar Black Widow release adds support for Zerto-replicated workloads to extend recovery assurance across even more of our customers’ storage and backup environments.
Businesses need recovery confidence — They need to know that they can quickly and safely restore critical systems after incidents like ransomware attacks, data-centre outages, or any other unforseen issue. That’s our mission – to give customers total recovery confidence.
We’ve made epic strides over the last few years, but with storage environments growing ever-more complex and disjointed it’s not an easy goal to achieve. That’s why expanding platform support is essential.
Predatar already supports leading backup and storage vendors including IBM, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, and Pure — and with R18 Black Widow, Zerto is now included too, taking our customer’s even closer to total recovery confidence.
Why Zerto?
Innovation at Predatar is driven by our customers. Zerto support has been one of the most frequent requests in the last 12 months – and it makes perfect sense.
Just like Predatar, Zerto is complementary to traditional backup. And just like Predatar, it’s a popular choice for organisations that take resilience seriously and understand the need for fast, safe data recovery.
Many existing Predatar customers that are already benefiting from automated recovery testing and malware scanning for their backups – are also using Zerto for continuous replication of their most critical data. Now, these customers can also validate the data they replicate with Zerto in their Predatar CleanRoom. No need for a new Predatar licence or a separate CleanRoom.
Zerto and the rise of cloud vaults
The concept of vaults, particularly as a method for protecting data from cyber-attacks has been around for a few years now, but it’s really been gaining traction in the last couple of years. Leading storage and cloud providers have productised the concept and made it easy to spin up a secure vault in the Cloud.
The Cloud vault market will continue to grow, and for businesses that are deploying vaults, Zerto is a strong choice. Zerto’s unrivalled recovery speed means that if/when an organisation needs to retrieve data from their vault – the disruption is minimised. This is useful in any scenario, but in the event of a major outage, the benefit will be huge. That’s why Zerto is built in to the HPE Cyber Resiliency Vault.
Many HPE customers are also choosing to add Predatar to their Cyber Resilience Vault. Here’s why…
What Zerto and vaults don’t do
A vault makes sure that cybercriminals can’t compromise or encrypt your data once it’s locked away. Zerto makes sure you can get the data back, fast, if you need to. But what if your data was already infected before it was replicated to your vault?
This isn’t a hypothetical question. Predatar has uncovered malware in the backups and snapshots of more than 90% of its customers. If malware is left undetected inside your vault it will seriously impact your ability to recover quickly and can even lead to reinfection of your production systems following a cyberattack.
Learn more about Predatar for Zerto
To find out more about how Predatar can give you confidence that your Zerto replicated workloads are recoverable and safe, take a look at the R18 Black Widow release page.
What’s next?
The R18.0 Black Widow release isn’t all about Zerto. It lays the groundwork for some big UI and usability updates early next year. And of course, support for more backup and storage products are the pipeline too. Sign-up for Predatar news here to stay in the loop.
