Case Study: Global Online Education Provider achieves 20-second RPO and $2M DR savings with Zerto and Microsoft Azure

Global Online Education Provider Embraces the Hybrid Cloud with Zerto and Azure

A global online education provider with a vSphere environment and hundreds of VMs faced capacity limits after rapid acquisitions and needed a simpler, cost-effective disaster recovery strategy. Their challenges included enabling a hybrid cloud model with VMware and Microsoft Azure, reducing DR cost and complexity, minimizing downtime and business impact, and proving recovery and compliance with non‑disruptive testing.

They deployed Zerto Virtual Replication with Microsoft Azure to replace a second DR site, enabling replication into Azure in minutes with no production downtime. The solution delivered 20‑second RPOs and 5‑minute RTOs, on‑demand failover testing, a single management console for on‑prem and cloud DR, and an estimated $2M savings over three years by eliminating dedicated DR infrastructure.