Zerto ROI

JC
Director of IT at Arnott Inc

I would estimate that if I had to recover from a scenario like the last one that affected us, it would take me 10 to 20 percent of the time it took me at that time. That reduces the amount of time that our system is down and, therefore, the amount of money we're losing because our system is down. It does provide some cost-benefit, but it's hard to quantify, because nobody has said, "In our company, we lose $X an hour when we're down." But when things are down, people are not happy. If nothing else, it means I hear less griping, and that makes me happier.

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BW
Vice President of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We have not done a return on investment. We aren't planning on doing one at this point. We know what we've got out of it, but we have not done a formal ROI.

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Joseph Lamb - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Nevada Bank and Trust

It's just been a few months. We have yet to see a return on investment. 

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LA
Information Security Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't seen a return aside from saving money on the annual license because we've had to invest so much time into getting it to work.

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Steve McFate - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst III at St. Luke's

There is an annual cost for Zerto, but that is something that our director level works through. Our organization, St. Luke's, goes through all vendor contracts looking for the best value. The fact that we have been using Zerto for a few years says that the value must be there compared to other vendors.

Not having to take down our tier-one system for an extended period of time for DR testing is invaluable. You can't put a dollar value on the impact on a patient's life. We need our systems to stay up constantly because they are what keep people alive.

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KP
Sr Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen ROI. It reduced the time for failover and failback by 90%. I am not saying that the products I mentioned earlier are bad products. They just didn't work well for what we wanted.

Zerto has had a significant impact on our RPO. It is a double-edged sword where our RTO and RPO have allowed us to almost not miss a beat. In a DR test, we are more staging and moving systems over, and this is more of a tactical approach. With some of the moves that we are making with SQL and using blue-green environments, I don't think we see a problem at all. We feel very good about it. 

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Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is hard to measure an ROI. It is more like an insurance policy. You may or may not use your insurance policy, but it provides comfort to management. There may also be some soft cost.

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MR
Sr Storage Adminstrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have seen an ROI with Zerto, though it's hard to quantify precisely how much. It saved us a significant amount of downtime, and plants lose money when they're down, so it's a hidden ROI in that respect.

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Paul Mickenbecker - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst, IS Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen ROI on the migration project which didn't require a whole bunch of people involved. We rotated two people who were able to facilitate the migrations when we scheduled them in the evenings. Sometimes, we would do up to six or seven migrations in an evening. 

The main thing that held us up a little in that project was the validation process required by the business. If we had been able to just run through it, we probably would have completed it a lot more quickly.

Still, we didn't require a lot of resources to do it. It was just one engineer to handle a migration and the applications teams to validate. We didn't have to go outside the company to hire services to help us with the migration. That was helpful from a cost perspective.

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KM
Cloud Engineering Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen a return on investment.

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Raymond Rosario - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen ROI due to the lack of losses from downtime that has been avoided.

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Angelo Winfield - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Lone Star Park

It reduces the time and effort needed to get our data. 

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GK
Global Lead Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Having a solution like this is similar to having insurance. When you have a car accident, that is when you know the value of your insurance. Similarly, you cannot put a definite value on a solution like this till something happens, but there is peace of mind in knowing that the software is there, the VMs are there, and we can test it anytime. That is the true value.

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CS
Director IT at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I can't quantify the ROI because we haven't used it in a disaster. It's more of a cost-avoidance solution, protecting the organization.

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Mansoor Hanif - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

We have experienced ROI using this solution. It helps a lot when we use Zerto to test out certain applications. It offers a lot of value for our upper management to see how this product helps us in the event of a DR.

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DC
Manager of IT Technical Operations at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

We definitely have seen a return on investment from Zerto. We were able to recover from an incident that would have been a lot more serious without Zerto.

Without Zerto, our organization would have lost several million dollars in financial damages from data loss.

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TF
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

I believe we have seen an ROI, but I do not know the exact number. We are definitely seeing a good return from what we have put into the Zerto product. Our business users said that it is very important to them to have disaster recovery and for us to be able to perform quarterly tests with all these different application stacks. We can show them what it is like to bring up a bubble environment and do full testing.

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GY
Team Lead / Virtualization SME at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We have seen a return on investment.

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DB
Senior Systems Engineer at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We relocated all our virtual machines from Belgium to Budapest, Hungary. I am not sure how we would have done it without Zerto, because we were able to keep the data in sync. We would have needed to have a lot more expensive storage products online at the time that could have kept that replication. From what I have seen from other methods, that would have required a much higher amount of bandwidth as well, then the cost would have been extreme. The mechanisms available to us with a storage space replication would have been more labor-intensive and prone to error. It was much easier and more successful with Zerto than other ways at our disposal.

Zerto has reduced the time involved that staff would spend on a data recovery operation. We don't have dedicated resources for disaster recovery. It is a scenario where, "Everybody, stop what you are doing. This is what we are all working on right now." We haven't had a reduction in headcount because of Zerto, but we have reduced the use of existing headcount.

DR management is less time-intensive and resource intensive. Therefore, there are less staff hours involved because of Zerto, but not less headcount.

Zerto has helped to reduce downtime in any situation. The easiest one to point out was the data center move. It took minutes to move an application to a different country, then minutes once again to move it back. That would have been hours at best to days with the other solutions that we had at our disposal.

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DT
CIO at Per Mar Security and Research Corporation

We have seen ROI. And even when you cost-compare against Site Recovery Manager, none of these solutions is cheap. But we are folks who need to have uptime and these things have to work. When you start comparing it against Site Recovery Manager, Zerto blows it out of the water, in my opinion.

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DR
Principal DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It's hard to quantify the return, but we can do what we set out to. We're able to recover critical services in a DR site. We haven't had to use it, but we know it's there, and we've done testing that shows it works. Hopefully, we don't have to use it, but it's a good insurance policy. 

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Jason Tucker - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at Majestic Realty Co.

I have not yet seen an ROI. I will see it when I resolve my issues, and I can bring my entire environment over and get it up and running.

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Brent Bishop - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager IS Technical Services at Kalsec

We have not calculated the ROI of the solution.

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KP
Sr Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen ROI in terms of resources and time. For our overall management of the system, it doesn't require too many resources. The upgrades are not too bad. You may have to dedicate a staff member to do it for a couple of days. I didn't have a lot of experience with it and the two upgrades I did were simple.

In terms of time, it has saved us north of 30%. It cut down on a lot of manpower. There has been a reduction in our management pattern from other prior solutions.

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RB
Server Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The human resources necessary to perform a disaster recovery test are undoubtedly available. It is more economical than RecoverPoint. Now, it has been many years, and I am uncertain about the cost disparity. However, on the whole, there is a decrease in various aspects regarding the product's cost and the number of work hours needed for disaster recovery testing which is a clear return on investment.

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CZ
Virtualization Manager at Teknor Apex Company

We've seen a solid return with Zerto

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John Skarja - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at Niagara Health System

Zerto has been more of an insurance policy. We haven't had to use it yet, but if that day ever comes, it will be invaluable. Zerto has already helped us in other areas, such as moving workloads, which has saved us a lot of time that would have been spent rebuilding and decommissioning. more of a safety net.

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JM
Disaster Recovery Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have seen an ROI. Otherwise, we wouldn't keep using it. The biggest thing is the number of VMs we can support with the staff that we have. 

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D. Ngunyen - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at State of California

For a long time, we needed disaster recovery that was more than IBM's, which is in Colorado. We needed something on-premises that was instantaneous. That's what Zerto offers, and that's the ROI we have with Zerto.

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Jagadeesh Ethiraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead, Global DataCenter Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

In the event of a disaster, we will certainly see a return on investment.

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Shawn Woods - PeerSpot reviewer
US Infrastructure Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's hard to quantify the ROI. 

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Oran Turner - PeerSpot reviewer
ISD Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our migrations were all successful. We had no issues at any point during the project. That is what really sold us on Zerto.

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DR
Enterprise Data Management Supervisor at Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company

It definitely is a very robust product. The feature set from 4.0, 4.5 to now has increased greatly. We do like the fact, even though we're not using it, that as long as I pay my maintenance when the new features come out like longterm retention, analytics, the monitoring, the reporting, the things that were not there when we first purchased it that are there now, is all part of maintenance. It's not a bolt-on price. They don't charge extra. It was one of the things with Dell EMC that was always a pain was. They had additional costs. With Zerto it's like, "You paid your maintenance, here's a new feature, enjoy!"

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SB
Senior Security Engineer at North Shore LIJ Huntington Hospital

I don't any ROI information.

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DA
Global IT Operations Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Zerto saves us a lot of time. One team member alone can handle the DR test using Zerto, whereas before, when we used SRM, at least two or three people were involved from the VM perspective and from storage. VMware was integrated with our NetApp environment and that meant at least two or three team members were involved. But with Zerto, just one person uses the product for a DR test.

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Mike Erin - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of IT Infrastructure at Fay Financial

It has proven to be a cost-effective solution for us. 

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GC
Manager of Architecture and Network Operations at EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE MANAGEMENT, INC

We've seen ROI in active disaster recovery and failover.

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TB
Network Engineer at PRICE TRANSFER, INC

I can't give an exact figure, but I would say that protection from Ransomware tech alone paid for the initial startup process and most of the maintenance needed. 

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CM
Cloud Hosting Operations Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We have seen ROI from Zerto. 

It has reduced downtime. It went from 24 hours to four minutes. It could even be seconds. It's fairly quick.

The dollar amount would equate to something in the millions. For an environment to be restored it means restoring our ERP systems. Then in that ERP in that system, it also has some manufacturing as well.

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JL
IT Director at Kingston Technology

Zerto has very much saved us money by enabling us to do DR in the cloud, rather than in our physical data center. To do what we want to do and have that same type of hardware, to be able to stand up on it and have that hardware at the ready with support and maintenance, would be huge compared to what I'm doing.

By the way, we are doing what is considered a poor man's DR. I'm not saying that I'm poor, but that's the term I place on it because most people have a replica of their hardware in another environment. One needs to pay for those hardware costs, even though it's not doing anything other than sitting there, just in case. Using Zerto, I don't have to pay for that hardware in the cloud.

All I pay for is storage, and that's much less than what the hardware cost would be. To run that environment with everything on there, just sitting, would cost a factor of ten to one.

I would use this ratio with that because the storage that it replicates to is not the fastest. There's no VMs, there's no compute or memory associated with replicating this, so all I'm paying for is the storage.

So in one case, I'm paying only for storage, and in the other case, I have to pay for storage and for hardware, compute, and connectivity. If you add all that up into what storage would be, I think it would be that storage is inexpensive, but compute added up with maintenance and everything, and networking connectivity between there and the soft costs and man-hours to support that environment, just to have it ready, I would say ten to one is probably a fair assessment.

When it comes to DR, there is no real return on investment. The return comes in the form of risk mitigation. If the question is whether I think that I spent the least amount of money to provide a resilient environment then I would answer yes. Without question.

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MU
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have seen an ROI. If I do a vSphere replication from vCenter to vCenter, and of course, we can do long-distance vCenter migration these days, it would not be as good as Zerto replication.

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Andrew Watts - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Ivrnet Inc.

Zerto has saved time during our data center migration, and we are utilizing it for our disaster recovery. However, we have not yet calculated the return on investment for it.

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SM
Sr Manager IT Infrastructure at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

From our perspective, we are already thin-staffed as it is. So, Zerto has allowed us to focus on other things that are equally important.

We have not been able to apply ROI yet, just because of our circumstances. We are waiting on teams to move out of the data center. However, we are now poised and ready. Once that onslaught of requests come in, that is when we will really see the return on it.

If you are a numbers person, the benefit far outweighs the cost from any other competing software or service provider. When you are talking about trying to keep a reduced amount of engineers in the happiest state possible in their work environment to do the workload that they had traditionally done with double the amount of people on their teams, this tool relieves all the stress that they are carrying with them on a daily basis, even though they don't have to implement it on a daily basis. I have seen that firsthand. That return on investment is almost invaluable.

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SK
Manager System Administrators at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Every single penny we have invested in Zerto has been worth it. It has allowed us to grow our business and acquire more clients. Our clients are very happy with our DR solution. That's why they give us more money. For a company like ours, the more money we manage, the more revenue we have. From that perspective, Zerto has paid for itself 100 times.

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Dan Janousek - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at National Indemnity Company

It provides us with a safety net.

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Abdellateef Hasan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

We have seen an ROI with Zerto. 

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MM
Sr Director, Private Hosting at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

We have seen an ROI from the perspective of a reduction in hardware and a reduction in the number of people trying to focus on the tool sets.

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AN
IT Infrastructure Server Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've absolutely seen an ROI in terms of time savings with respect to downtime. When you convert a couple of thousand machines from one platform to another, the amount of downtime that it would take itself would have paid for Zerto many times over.

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RM
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We have absolutely seen a return on investment in terms of the manhours that have to be put into maintaining and testing this type of product. Thankfully, we have never had to use it in a true DR situation. However, I can guarantee that if something were to happen, even beyond the manhours and ease of automation, that it would pay for itself.

Our network infrastructure runs pretty smoothly most of the time. That said, Zerto has helped us to reduce downtime by approximately 20%. It is difficult to equate this with a monetary value because we have to consider what happens when a client misses a trade or cannot get a hold of their portfolio manager.

If it were an outage of a couple of hours then the person might pay a little more or a little less for a stock that they were trying to purchase. Overall, however, it is difficult to estimate. We aren't a day trading-type firm, so ultimately, I'm not sure that a short outage has any effect on our revenue stream whatsoever.

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Dov Goldman - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

In our DR testing, Zerto allows us to go work on other things while it takes care of everything. That's valuable because we know that we can still hit all of our SLAs in a real disaster. 

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AC
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

ROI is pretty good compared to the recovery compared to the investment we have. The solution is worth it. If we go to the cloud, the ROI is definitely going to be much more.

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RS
Systems Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

We have seen ROI from a time-management standpoint.

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JS
Information Technology Director at Cameron county

It is about $1,000 per VM, so it is pricey. However, the cost and time (the manpower cost) that it would take several members of IT to restore a backup and every individual piece of the virtual environment would easily exceed the pricing cost.

If we had to trigger it, downtime would go down to whatever the RPO is at that time. Right now, our RPO average is between four and 10 seconds. This is a big cost saver for us. Anytime certain systems are down within the organization, money is lost.

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DC
Senior Server Storage Engineer at MAPFRE Insurance

We have seen huge ROI.

It used to be a three-person job, and now it only takes one person to manage and run the process. The fall back is the same thing. We've never had any issues with stuff coming back out of Arizona to our Massachusetts location. Within 15 to 20 minutes, we can have our servers successfully migrated back, then up and running just as they were originally without having too many conflicts or configuration issues. 

The solution has helped us reduce downtime in any situation that we have come across, thus far, for disaster recovery at a 4:1 ratio.

We are an insurance company therefore, if we're down for an hour, it's thousands of dollars being lost. E.g., people can't pay their insurance bills, open new policies or get the support they need for an accident.

These things have been invaluable to us:

  • Not having to have so many bodies onsite during a disaster recovery drill.
  • Not having to worry about multiple people dealing with the application.
  • The product's reliability of always being up and running and not having any issues with it.
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Gaurav Sharma. - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our customers have witnessed an ROI. 

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DW
Computer Services Division Manager at a government with 51-200 employees

We're still waiting on the ROI. However, it will be very easy to calculate the minute we have a failover. 

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SW
Sr Systems Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We see the biggest ROI from Zerto's real-time test environment. If we want to do a proof of concept on a hundred servers, we can spin them up within a few hours and have them ready to start testing stuff with real data to see how that might look if we were to deploy that into production. It's an excellent, accurate test environment that we don't need to maintain.

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JT
Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The return on investment is in the ease and functionality of the tool as opposed to actually a gain from using the tool.

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Ken-Adams - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

That's hard to say because we haven't had a catastrophe. If we have a failure, hands down, I can't complain about that, but we haven't had any incidents.

Even though there is a fast speed of recovery and ease of use, I haven't measured the time savings and resource savings with Zerto. That's analytics, and we're not that detailed. We're user support focused.

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ED
Technology Infrastructure Manager at County of Grey

I think that return on investment will come in the event that we do have a disaster that we need to recover from. We have seen some ROI from Zerto by moving virtual machines between data centers, where that has saved us a lot of time. The technology not only is useful for disaster recovery, but also for server maintenance and moving resources between posts and impairments. Before, it could take hours to copy virtual machines, even days. We use Zerto to move resources around with little to no downtime in a lot quicker time. So we were able to save staff time and resources by using Zerto.

It wouldn't have cost us too much with the government. It's hard to equate a lot of downtime to dollars and cents for us because it's more so around staff time and convenience. We have long-term care homes that we need that are up all the time. And any of those maintenance windows we usually schedule after hours. So it's more of an inconvenience for IT staff to work overnight instead of during regular business hours.

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TT
Lead Infrastructure Team at a government with 10,001+ employees

It gives us peace of mind. It hasn't happened yet, but it does happen. Based on our annual testing, we are pretty much happy with what Zerto has done or can do.

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TP
Virtualization Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have definitely seen a return on investment. We can move any of our VMs from either of our data centers back and forth very easily, bringing them back and doing tests as frequently as we want. We will be doing two tests next week. At previous companies, we did one test a year. Now, we are doing different stacks, e.g., if we do 20, 100, or 700 VMS, then it will be this long. So, we can forecast additional workload and how much that will affect our DR position.

Zerto is definitely a lot easier to manage. My whole team knows how to use it, since it is very simple to use and intuitive. There are a couple people who use it and I am the secondary person. We have someone who basically lives in Zerto. She adds stuff on a daily basis and we are always on top of our updates. We are always looking at whatever new features come out. We try to maximize our journals. We are up to 24 hours on a lot of them. Our average RPO is eight seconds, and that is pretty good since we have 1,500 VMs and 280-plus VPGs. We have a pretty big on-prem environment. So, the good thing about it is the frequency and ease of testing because Zerto is very simple to use. DR has enough problems to deal with and Zerto makes things a lot easier.

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Lambert Tomeldan - PeerSpot reviewer
SVP of Technology / Head of Information Technology at Barkley Inc.

We have been able to reduce our RPO and RTO to a matter of seconds to minutes versus what our technology committee established as our metrics, which was 30 minutes versus a few days.

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SS
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

There is nothing that we can quantitatively define, but we are able to meet regulatory requirements.

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NR
Senior Manager, Technical Services at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have probably not seen a return on investment from using Zerto. We don't really have lots of situations where we have to use it and can substantiate any kind of financial claim to it.

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ML
Enterprise Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The way we use it there is no return on investment. You can think of Zerto as an insurance policy. We use it to protect our business, but we actually hope that we'll never put it into action.

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JP
Disaster Recovery & Cybersecurity Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We have seen an ROI, but I do not have the metrics.

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MM
Database Admin at Fintec

The solution is worth the cost. Having disaster recovery is necessary. If we ever suffer from a hardware failure, we can easily replicate in one click. 

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TH
Sr Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

I'm unsure if the company has witnessed any ROI. We have not gone through any TCO analysis. 

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Daniel Griffiths - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Aunalytics

We have absolutely seen ROI. Over time, we make money off of the CPU, RAM, and storage of Zerto usage. We benefit that way.

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JC
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Zerto has helped reduce downtime. We have had servers go down and could easily spin them back up at our DR location almost instantly. Instead of taking an hour, it took a minute.

On average, it saves us three to five hours a day.

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ND
Solutions Architect / Building Supervisor at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have seen ROI in terms of time savings, as well as other points.

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John Skarja - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at Niagara Health System

In terms of ROI, it is hard to say. Fortunately, we haven't had any issues. Obviously, if we had an issue we would have seen ROI, but it's kind of like insurance. You pay for it and then if nothing ever happens, that's it. But, if something were to happen, then you're pretty glad that you had it in place. 

Similarly, if you have an accident with your car, it's good that you had insurance because it's saving you money. But if you never have an accident, then you're spending money. In that way, I look at any disaster recovery business continuity as insurance.

Although we've never had to use it, if we do then we will see ROI the first time.

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DC
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our ROI is quite significant. The SQL cost savings alone would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. That's due to the fact that we don't need to have our SQL clustering set up as an always-on cluster, which would need to be a higher tier of Microsoft licensing. We're able to use SQL standard for everything, and that wouldn't be possible without a third-party like Zerto to do the replication and failover.

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PW
System Engineer at American Medical Response

I'm not sure if I can put a dollar amount on ROI but the biggest return is time to actually get things set up and then begin to migrate virtual machines over to the new environment.

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RL
Lead Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I can't speak to if the company has witnessed any ROI. 

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JC
VMware Engineer Infrastructure Team at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have seen return in our investment with Zerto due to the speed and usability and being able to do this huge project with limited hiccups.

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MikeEllis - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at AHEAD

Our customers definitely see a return on investment, especially with time savings, by doing required compliance testing for disaster recovery with a minimal amount of effort.

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SI
Network Engineer at Eastern Industrial Supplies, Inc.

We have definitely seen return on our investment in Zerto. First, it's a time-saver. Second, for IT, it gives us peace of mind. We don't have to worry about it. 

One of the ways Zerto is really good in that regard is that you can actually bring your servers online in your test environment and see exactly what something would look like if you restored it. And if you don't want to restore it, you just hit "cancel" and it puts it back the way it was. It's great to be able to do that. The test features they have built into the product mean you can test a scenario like "What if I want to spin this up over here, how would it look?" You can do that.

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ZK
Sr. System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I believe that we have seen a return on our investment. The return comes from time saved in manpower, for example. From what I've seen, it's worth the cost.

I've also heard comments from my coworkers to say that it's an expensive product but it definitely makes you feel more comfortable in a DR situation.

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SC
Systems Engineer at Shift movers

We have seen positive returns on investment. We have achieved a lot, and our performance keeps on improving. We have seen an 80% ROI in the past six months.

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DZ
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is hard to say, but the value is there. At the end of the day, the benefits of having a failover solution outweigh the cost.

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KU
Sr Project manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We have seen a return on investment with Zerto.

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RM
Engineering Manager at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

We've definitely gotten our money's worth out of it for what we've been doing. We have been able to close three data centers so far.

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SP
Regional Director IT at Apache Gold Casino Resort

We haven't calculated an ROI, but just comparing what it's been able to do for us, versus not having a solution, there has been ROI. It has the potential to help reduce downtime. Fortunately, we haven't had any, but it puts something in place to help us if we were to encounter some downtime. We're a casino, so every hour that we're down we lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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GY
Team Lead / Virtualization SME at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I am pretty sure my company has seen ROI.

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DH
Chief Information Officer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We have seen ROI. The biggest way that we have seen it is in avoided downtime. We have had outages before, and we count downtime in terms of dollars spent. We have cut that down so dramatically, which provides us a very quick ROI. We have drastically reduced the amount of time it takes us to recover workloads, from an average of two hours to an average of 10 minutes.

We measure our downtime in thousands of dollars per minute. While it depends on what is down and who it is impacting, we take in an average of $1,000 a minute at a minimum. So, 120 minutes of downtime at $1,000 is $120,000 per workload that is down, and that can add up very quickly.

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FB
Enterprise Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I think we do see ROI. We need a defensive posture to protect ourselves.

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AA
Virtualization Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have witnessed a lot of ROI. Being technical, I always ask to make sure management is happy with the product we are trying to use. With the migration feature, it's way better now. We are able to migrate from the old data center without any disruption. That's a big win. 

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SC
Systems Admin at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

We have not yet seen an ROI. We are going to be moving to a new environment and a new data center. I am sure I would see a big return on investment at that point.

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DC
Manager of IT Technical Operations at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

We certainly have seen an ROI. When we got hit, we saved a lot of money because we were able to recover RBMs. Without Zerto, we would have been in serious trouble. So, it definitely returned the investment many times over.

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AA
VMware Engineer at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

We're down to a couple of data centers now, and our data center cost is going down. That is the ROI we have seen with Zerto.

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DS
Windows Administrator 3 at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

The return on investment from Zerto was immediate. Instead of having legacy DR failover exercises that involved multiple teams and weekends work of activity, now a single user can fail over everything and get reports to prove that it was failed over and the data integrity was all done. As far as people hours and time, the ROI was instant.

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GM
Resiliency Specialist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Using Zerto has saved us money by enabling us to do DR in the cloud because we did not have to purchase the infrastructure at the alternate site. It's difficult to approximate how much money we have saved because we never built a DR site for the applications that we now have replicated in the cloud. There has never been an on-premises solution for them.

It is relevant to point out that we're not using it so much for day-to-day backups, but rather, we're using it for continuous data protection for DR and we have not had any disaster, so it's difficult to quantify our return on investment from that perspective.

However, from the perspective of being able to do cloud DR and not having to pay for that infrastructure, and even when it comes to the ease of use when we're going from data center to data center, I think we've got a definite return on our investment in comparison to not having a continuous data protection tool.

There is a difference between what we do and what we would have been doing without a tool like Zerto. In this regard, Zerto is a kind of overhead because hopefully, you're not using it day-to-day in a real disaster. It's more like insurance.

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JM
Senior Director - Information Technology at Revenew International

The one time we had the failover and run at the DR site, instead of having two or three days of downtime, we really had less than one day of downtime. If you measure that in how much money we were able to make that day, it's around $200,000 to $300,000.

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MM
Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Zerto does exactly what it says it's going to do. I don't have to go back and babysit it. If something happens, it alerts me. I don't have to sit there and add hours of babysitting or monitoring. I can be doing other tasks. That is our ROI.

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GK
Converge Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I do think that we've seen a return on investment. We started off with SRM in our legacy environment, and it was probably protecting 90% of the estate. Now, we have a new environment, and Zerto is now protecting 90% of the estate, and SRM is only doing 10% or even less than that.

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ZS
Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If I have networking issues on one vCenter, then I can just Zerto it over to another vCenter. This instantly fixes the problem, saving us time and money. In one case, our phone system was down because we were having a network issue at one of the vCenters. So, I just moved the machine over to the other vCenter through Zerto. It came back online, bringing us back up.

It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money.

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BS
System Administrator at City of Rock Hill, SC

There's not a direct ROI as it's being used as an insurance policy. The only time it really benefits us is when something bad happens.

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DB
Senior IT Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The RTO and RPO are unparalleled. In the event you do have an issue, you can be back up and running (depending on the size of your infrastructure) within minutes. Your RTO can be 15 minutes and data loss be five minutes. I don't think that's matched by anybody else in the field.

It has helped decrease the number of people involved in data center moves. For the infrastructure pieces, which is my primary responsibility, I am the sole person. Whereas, we use to have an OS guy and a network person before to manually configure the pieces. We also had application teams, but they are still relevant. Previously, it took four people because we were touching each environment and machine. Since we wanted it done fast, we would stack a bunch of people on it. Now, it's just me and it's done faster.

When migrating data centers, we have saved a lot of time on my team. Something that takes an hour or two used to take a week or two.

There is big ROI for ease of use, management, and labor overhead versus other solutions.

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NG
Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Zerto costs us several hundred thousand dollars a year, and we haven't needed to use it in a real DR situation, so it's hard to quantify an ROI. However, based on what we know from testing, it will be a huge benefit in the worst-case scenario. 

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RL
IT Operations at a performing arts with 501-1,000 employees

We have noted an ROI. Compared to others, overall, it made sense to choose Zerto.

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KS
Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Uptime for our customers is important. When we are able to do transitions and not impact customers or minimize that impact, that is a financial gain at the end of the day in terms of the satisfaction that customers get, as well as the overall view of the company. As a whole, the management sees that we are doing this stuff in minutes and hours versus days. So, overall, the company is not looking to move away from Zerto anytime soon.

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RD
Senior Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

We'll probably see ROI in around three years. 

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Lee_Castillo - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Information Security Engineer at Lumen

I have saved days and even weeks of working time from using the solution. We are in the process right now of designing a new cloud infrastructure for one of our environments to utilize Zerto to replicate our VMs to our cloud. It is going to be a huge time saver, probably saving us a couple hundred thousand dollars. We've definitely seen some good return on investment with it. Our auditors are impressed by it. 

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MT
Network Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We have seen return on our investment with Zerto, absolutely. Just to have an option for disaster recovery in case our main data center goes down — which can happen, because we don't have a generator or anything in our home office — is a type of return. Not just IT, but everybody in the company from the C-suite, was happy that we have a disaster recovery option now.

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LP
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have seen a return on investment with Zerto, which saved us 30 percent of our costs and improved our disaster recovery time.

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DT
Sr systems engineer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ROI is in "funny money." It's my time and how long something is down or how long it takes somebody to restore something, and that is much faster.

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VV
Cloud System Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We have definitely seen a return on investment.

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JP
Director of IT at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Our technology committee established an RPO and RTO. We beat those times with Zerto. We have a 30-minute RTO and we can recover within seconds. We have far exceeded any expectations so far.

From the simple point of not having to worry about whether or not we are protected in the event of ransomware or disaster, it is worth the money.

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AM
IT Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We have seen ROI with the RTOs, RPOs, and speed of recovery.

Using Zerto, you can have your VM up and running in a matter of minutes. All you need to do is flip a switch, then you are good to go.

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AS
Systems Engineer Virtualization at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would think we have seen return on the investment in Zerto because we use it a decent amount of the time. We have reduced the downtime within the last month because of it as well.

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GG
Principle Systems Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees

Compared to the licensing fees with Oracle and SAP, we see a return on investment.

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AB
Manager - IT Infrastructure and Resiliency at Asian Paints

There is no need to think of ROI as this is a DC-DR solution.

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RW
IT Professional at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

We haven't had a need to use it in an actual live disaster scenario, but we have that capability, which we did not before. But if we had to use it, it would save us a tremendous amount of money. Tremendous.

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AB
Head of IT at TWM Solicitors LLP

We do not consider an ROI analysis to be relevant in this area.

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MC
Hosting Services Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We recently bought more licenses and are exploiting the benefits of Zerto so I would say we are seeing a return on investment. 

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GV
Lead Network Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company

Based on the fact that we can rely on Zerto for recovery if anything were to happen and the confidence that our management has in this product, it's definitely worth the money. 

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BF
Systems Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't seen ROI because we've not ever had to recover anything. But in an instance where we would have to recover from a disaster, we would definitely see ROI. It's like paying for insurance. You don't really see any value in it until you need it.

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TL
SQL Database Administrator at Aurora Mental Health Center

It's hard to say if we have seen ROI since it's only been running for about four months. I think that we will see cost savings over the next year.

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RD
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

A client was migrating into one of our usage-based clouds, so it automatically bills by the resource pool. The more that they put in there, the more we gain. We've probably increased the input to that environment 10-fold. It's a 10-time multiple of what we invested into it, just particularly for that one use case because he's growing so rapidly. Every time he brings over a new client, it adds to the billing which is hands-free for us. We've enabled him to do it.

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reviewer1254672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The ROI with Zerto can't even be measured. The peace of mind we have gotten from knowing that all of our protected VMs are safely replicated with almost live RPOs is something that you can't even quantify.

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RB
Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry

An exact dollar ROI has not been calculated. The largest gain will be seen in man hours used for DR testing as well as the management of backups and recovery. This will turn what is now a very manual process into a fully automated recovery.

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CA
System Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

In terms of ROI, it was quite expensive, but I think we got a lot of value out of it, such as being able to have a reliable DR method, particularly offsite. We have very poor latency locations, and sometimes, we replicate those. Zerto makes that very easy.

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TL
Sr. System Engineer at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Have not had to failover often but the ability to test product upgrades has been invaluable.

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it_user364671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Hopefully 50% less than with teh other solutions, we will have a look to it after a year production

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reviewer1199877 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

Our ROI happened in nine seconds.

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SR
Sr Director Security Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have absolutely seen return on our investment with Zerto. We do mock disaster recovery exercises and, in every such exercise since we've gone ahead with Zerto, we've been able to restore the data within a few minutes, very easily, without any business loss. That gives us the confidence to say that, even in the case of a real disaster, we should be able to restore the data.

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BK
Security Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have seen a return on our investment in terms of time and resources.

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it_user159951 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead, Virtualization/Converged at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
KH
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

My customers said that though they had to pay for it, they were glad they bought it because Zerto works. It's got really great ROI coming from that perspective.

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GN
Solutions Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

Amazing ROI considering I don't have to buy a second set of hardware for my DR site. I can use a cloud provider and only pay when I need it.

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it_user774891 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm

We expect to achieve a ROI within four years of the purchase. However, the ability to almost instantly failover and the fast file level ransomware recovering times give you that peace of mind that allows for low stress levels.

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Zerto
March 2024
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