Assured Data Protection unveiled a disaster recovery service powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) Zerto as a means to ease enterprise concerns over continued rumblings at VMware.

The offering is targeted at firms running hypervisor environments that require highly aggressive recovery point and recovery time objectives. It's designed to provide protection and peace of mind for applications as many firms ponder their long-term commitment to VMware following Broadcom’s licensing revisions.

“Many enterprises still have 12-36 months left on VMware contracts but need a robust disaster recovery solution now,” Tony Giannini, VP for global innovation at Assured, said. “Our partnership with Zerto enables us to provide ultra-low RPOs (recovery point objective) and RTOs (recovery time objective) for critical applications, independent of hardware, and with the flexibility to transition to Nutanix whenever customers choose."

For long-time VMware users looking to shift their work elsewhere, maintaining business continuity, and avoiding downtime is critical. But simply replicating VMs to another platform could trigger some licensing costs

Assured is looking to support that need with its new offering, providing hypervisor users with the means to shore up their applications, regardless of their underlying compute or storage hardware.

Prior to the addition of Zerto, Assured worked with Rubrik and Nutanix, though users can still leverage its new service to support their short- or long-term VMware performance, in addition to tapping it for use during migration.

“By combining HPE Zerto Software host-based replication technology with Assured’s managed service expertise, customers gain a proven, scalable foundation for modern disaster recovery,” Michael Lebo, global MSP leader for data protection strategy at Zerto, noted.

“Assured can customize protection levels by application, so customers aren’t paying highest-common-denominator prices across the board,” Giannini added. “This is the perfect complement to our Rubrik cyber resilience solutions to ensure an organization is resilient against cyber, natural, and other disasters.”

The launch is the latest in an ever-growing line of services emerging to take advantage of the uncertainty around changes at VMware.

Lenovo, Proxmox, and Nutanix are just a few examples of brands racing to offer everything from hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) alternatives to full-blown migrations.

All the while, Broadcom is continuing to add names to its revised VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in addition to readying its controversial VMware go-to-market partner program overhaul for launch, with the offering set to reach the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions, having already been unleashed on its Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Japan regions.