BRIEF
The True Costs of
Zerto DR in the Cloud.
Comparing iland DRaaS to Zerto DR in Azure.
iland has become a leader in disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
by working with leading vendors like Zerto to create simple and
robust replication and failover solutions.
However, Zerto offers many paths to implementing disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure in the
cloud, including a customer-implemented (DIY) solution utilizing Azure that may seem deceptively
simple at first glance. Developing a true total cost of ownership (TCO) between the two requires a
detailed analysis of a variety of costs to create a true comparison. The details will vary, but utilizing
conservative numbers applied to the chart on the second page of this brief, iland can provide a much
simpler DR solution for less than half the price, no matter the size of the protected infrastructure.
S/M/L - 36 month TCO excluding FTE
Large (1000 VMs)
Medium (200 VMs)
Small (50 VMs)
$ $500,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000 $2,000,000 $2,500,000
Zerto + Azure Difference iland
In addition to these raw service costs, it is important to keep in mind that the DIY nature of a Zerto
solution in Azure will naturally increase the staff time spent on the solution, especially for the initial
implementation, but also throughout the life of the solution and during failovers. Given the high
variability of these costs they were not included in this cost model, but should be added to any
detailed analysis, and will only further differentiate the TCO of the two solutions.
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The following items were used to develop the above cost model, and represent a complete DR
target environment.
INFRASTRUCTURE
iland COST MODEL AZURE COST MODEL NOTES
COMPONENT
In addition to transaction fees, be
Per reserved GB and
Replicated storage Per reserved GB aware of limitations imposed on
transactions
storage pools
• Charges incurred only during test
CPU Per Ghz
or failover.
• An instance of equal or greater
size must be selected for each VM
Per instance deployed
when configuring protection to
Azure. For iland, the recovery VM
Memory Per GB
will have the same configuration
as the protected VM.
iland provides much more
VPN included
Additional cost per VPN or flexibility for connecting into
Network connectivity Additional cost for dedicated connection the DR environment, including
dedicated connections customer-provided equipment.
Available on a per GB cost Additional cost per VM Additional costs for restorations
Backup
based on primary storage and GB may apply in Azure
Ingress: Included Bandwidth charges between
vNETs and reverse replication for
Bandwidth Included Egress: Per GB
failback operations could result in
Cross vNET: Per GB unexpected steep costs in Azure
Included (anti-malware, IDS/ Customer must deploy and manage
Additional cost per VM
Security in DR IPS, vulnerability scanning, multiple services in Azure to create
and transaction
and web reputation services) a comparable solution to iland
At a minimum, there should be a
Additional cost per instance firewall and VPN for both replication
Virtual gateways Included
and bandwidth and failover networks. iland fully
manages the replication firewall
To match iland’s included
Self service support (KBs) or phone-based support, Azure
Support Included
additional cost customers would need to add
premium support
Additional cost and contract All needed Zerto licensing is
Zerto licensing Included for Zerto Enterprise Cloud included with iland (no additional
Edition licensing on-prem licenses needed)
Additional cost for always on All Zerto components in the iland
Included and managed by
Failover Zerto infrastructure instances for ZCA (DS3 v2) infrastructure are fully managed
iland
and customer management by iland
For more details on this analysis, including an estimation of the additional management cost differences,
please see the full whitepaper or work with your iland sales representative.
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Thank you.
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