As enterprises and organizations continue to embrace the digital transformation where data is driving business decisions and reworking corporate culture, one key concept is important to think through — the resiliency of information technology and the implications long term of building flexible, scalable technology that can continue to grow and expand with company needs.

“If your IT is not resilient, that stops you. Everything just stays in place because you know that anything that you remove will break something else,” said Ziv Kedem (pictured), chief executive officer of Zerto Ltd, which provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software for virtualized infrastructure and cloud environments.

Kedem spoke with Paul Gillin (@pgillin), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the ZertoCon event in Boston, Massachusetts. They discussed IT resiliency within the digital transformation. (* Disclosure below.)

Creating IT resiliency through long-term IT solutions

Customers have higher and higher expectations for IT, according to Kedem. “IT is expected to be in the front seat driving the customer experience, not in the back seat getting orders and always saying, ‘OK, we cannot do that; we need to wait,'” he said. “It’s a great opportunity for IT.”

With this IT opportunity comes the need for resiliency, and another huge thing to figure out is big data and how to organize it and handle this information long term. One platform that is simple, scalable, and covers all resiliency needs is vitally important for businesses and enterprises moving forward, Kedem added.

“They can focus on generating business, not hand-holding infrastructure,” he said.

This is a goal Zerto has had for many years — to build a wall of uninterrupted IT. Zerto 7 is one platform the company is unfolding to lead the charge on this front. This version takes care of the entire lifespan of the data, Kedem explained.

“It’s all about cataloging when they have [data], how long they have it, and giving them the right tool to have it all in one place,” he said. “The real problem is not that they don’t know any specific detail — it’s just that it’s scattered across different applications, different tools, different systems.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of ZertoCon. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for ZertoCon 2018. Neither Zerto Ltd, the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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