Case Study: Gleadell Agriculture achieves 14-second RPO and 15-minute RTO with Zerto

Gleadell Agriculture Guarantees Critical Application Protection Without Snapshots

Gleadell Agriculture, a UK-based grain, oilseed and pulse trader established in 1880 with 140 staff and five offices, relies on high‑availability trading and financial systems to support £millions of transactions and 2.5M tonnes of annual purchases. The company needed to reduce risk to its mission‑critical applications, prove recovery SLAs to stakeholders and auditors, and support a move toward a hybrid cloud strategy (Microsoft Azure); its existing snapshot‑based protection (Veeam) could only achieve a 14‑minute RPO and could not reliably demonstrate fast recovery.

Think S3 implemented Zerto Virtual Replication, replacing snapshots with continuous block‑level replication to deliver a 14‑second RPO and a 15‑minute RTO, enable non‑disruptive daily DR tests with concise compliance reporting, and maintain protection across platforms. The solution reduced recovery time objectives by 60x, allowed Gleadell to run 15‑minute DR tests every morning, and provided a clear, low‑risk path to migrate production workloads to Azure.

Gleadell Agriculture

Tristan Hargreaves

IT Manager