Case Study: Ritchie Bros achieves modern disaster recovery and IT resilience with Zerto

Ritchie Bros, Wins Bid for Modern DR, IT Resilience Strategy

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, a global leader in heavy-equipment auctions, depends on real‑time online bidding where any downtime can halt transactions and revenue. Their disaster‑recovery strategy, run by a managed service provider, was complex, time‑consuming and required a large IT effort, so the company sought to bring DR in‑house and improve IT resilience.

After a bake‑off, Ritchie Bros. chose Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform for its simple setup, one‑click recovery and storage‑agnostic flexibility. Zerto now protects 264 VMs—including SQL, Oracle EBS, SharePoint, LDAP, SCCM, Avaya and containerized apps—reduced failover testing staff from six to two, improved RPOs/RTOs, streamlined failover testing, and enabled efficient data‑center migration after an acquisition with plans for further migrations.

Ritchie Bros

Stephen Charles

Director, Enterprise Infrastructure & Technical Services