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title: HPE Zerto
tags: [backup-recovery, migration, security]
vendors: [hpe]
summary: Continuous replication rather than a nightly job. Recovery measured in minutes and data loss in seconds, and an HPE product since the acquisition.
photoNeed: "HPE hardware in our hands: a ProLiant or Alletra being racked, cabled, or opened, with the model badge readable"
stub: false
draft: false
kind: product
addon: false
sourceNote: HPE product page for HPE Zerto Software, read 2026-08-30, filed under Continuous Data Protection. The Swiss project claim is quoted from soultec.ch/partner, read the same day.
vendorName: HPE Zerto Software
status: current
practice: >
  Draft, not yet reviewed. soulTec's own partner page says our engineers were on the largest Zerto project in Switzerland, and the Coop Switzerland success story on this site is the public half of that work. What we take from it: the failover rehearsal is the deliverable, not the installation.
practiceReview: true
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## What it is

Zerto replicates continuously instead of on a schedule. Writes are captured as they happen
and shipped to the recovery site, so what you lose in a failure is measured in seconds
rather than in the time since last night's job.

HPE files it under continuous data protection, and that phrase is the honest description:
it is neither backup nor a snapshot regime, and it does not replace either.

## What it is for

Three things that turn out to be the same mechanism. Disaster recovery, where a site or a
platform is lost. Ransomware recovery, where the problem is not losing the data but finding
the last moment before it was encrypted. And migration, where workloads move between
platforms, on-premises or cloud, while they keep running.

The third one surprises people. A DR tool bought for the fire is used for the datacentre
move.

## Why the rehearsal is the point

Failover can be tested without interrupting anything. That is the feature that separates a
recovery plan from a recovery hope, and it is the reason we build on Zerto for the plans we
have to sign our name to.

A plan nobody has run is a document. Run it twice a year and it becomes a number you can
put in front of a board.

## What changed

Zerto was an independent company and is HPE's now, sold as HPE Zerto Software. Nothing
about the technology changed with the badge. What changed is who your contract is with, and
that is worth knowing before the next renewal rather than during it.