Zmanda

Zmanda
Company typePrivate company
IndustryOpen Source Enterprise Backup and Recovery
Founded2005
Headquarters
Broomfield, Colorado
Key people
Ashok Reddy (CEO)
Chandor Kant (Founder)
ProductsAmanda Community
Zmanda EBR
Zmanda Recovery Manager
Zmanda Pro
Websitewww.zmanda.com
Zmanda Recovery Manager
Initial release2008
Written inPerl
Available inEnglish
TypeBackup software
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.zmanda.com Edit this on Wikidata

Zmanda Inc. is an open-source software and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in the United States. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun[1] and MySQL, the company contributed to open source projects. Zmanda was acquired by Betsol in May, 2018.[2]

History

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Zmanda was founded in May, 2005, in Sunnyvale, California. It disclosed a round of $2 million of funding in October, 2005, with an investor Chander Kant who was also an executive at the time.[3] Pete Childers became chief executive in May, 2007, and then resigned in July of that year, with Kant then becoming chief executive.[4]

Zmanda develops and maintains the open source backup tools Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Amanda), and the Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, an open source relational database management system. ZRM included a graphical user interface for installation and management.[5] ZRM is written in the Perl programming language, and released with a GNU General Public License. Source code is kept on GitHub.[6]

The company was named one of MySQL partners of the year in 2008.[7] Within two weeks of the announced that Sun Microsystems would acquire MySQL AB (the company that developed MySQL), Sun announced a partnership to sell ZRM.[8][9][10] A backup agent allowed integration with the NetBackup product from Symantec.[11] Version 3.0 of ZRM was released in 2009, including support for the Ubuntu distribution of the Linux operating system.[12]

In early 2009, the company announced a remote backup service for cloud computing.[13] Zmanda developed the open source ZCloud API, announced in 2009, to enable backup software vendors to integrate software with public and private storage clouds.[14] Like many open source firms, Zmanda generated revenue by selling products built on the open source codebase as well as by providing services and support to those customers who buy these products.[15] Zmanda offers an annual subscription fee model similar to those by Red Hat and MySQL.

In 2010, Zmanda announced an option to support IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in ZRM.[16] After Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010, it continued to promote ZRM.[1] Zmanda was acquired by Carbonite, Inc. in 2012,[17] and then Betsol in May, 2018.[2] Betsol, headed by Ashok Reddy, had also acquired the backup software called Rebit from Carbonite in 2017.[18] When the 4.0 version was announced in 2020, the location given was Broomfield, Colorado, where Betsol is located,[19][20] Betsol calls the software Zmanda, releasing version 4.1 in September, 2021 which included support for Microsoft Azure cloud.[21]

Products

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Zmanda Pro

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Zmanda Pro
Developer(s)Zmanda Inc.
Initial release2008 (2008)
Operating systemWindows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/08
PlatformWindows
Available inEnglish, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
TypeOnline backup service, Online file storage, Backup & Recovery
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.zmanda.com

Zmanda Pro is a backup software by Zmanda (a BETSOL product) which enables enterprises and SMBs to back up their data to cloud storage. The software uses the Amazon S3 service from Amazon Web Services[22] or Google Cloud Storage as the cloud storage service but also supports private cloud solutions such as OpenStack Swift or Walrus by Eucalyptus via the open source ZCloud API.[23] As of March 2011, the software runs only on Windows platforms. For non-Windows platforms the company offers the open source Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver with Amazon S3 as the storage location.[24] Zmanda was acquired by BETSOL on Feb 27, 2018.

Reception

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The product was featured by Microsoft on its website.[25] In August 2010, The Motley Fool reviewed the product and called it a product which make the backups "simple and inexpensive".[26]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Sun and Zmanda". Sun web site. Archived from the original on January 29, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of Zmanda Enterprise Backup". Press release. May 11, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  3. ^ "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). US Securities and Exchange Commission. October 3, 2005. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  4. ^ Paula Rooney (October 31, 2007). "Former Red Hat exec leaves Zmanda after short stint, brain drain at Red Hat continues". ZDNet. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  5. ^ Alolita Sharma (September 2008). "Zmanda Recovery Manager" (PDF). Linux Journal. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  6. ^ "ZManda, Inc". GitHub repository list for Zmanda. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  7. ^ "MySQL Partners Of The Year—2008". April 2008. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  8. ^ Maureen O'Gara (March 18, 2008). "Sun To Push Zmanda Backup for MySQL". Database Zone. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  9. ^ "Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL". MySQL AB web site. Archived from the original on March 22, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  10. ^ "Sun & Zmanda to Deliver Backup & Recovery Solutions for MySQL Enterprise". Press release. MySQL. March 18, 2008. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  11. ^ "MySQL Backup agent for Symantec NetBackup". April 13, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  12. ^ Alolita Sharma (April 8, 2009). "Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu Server". Linux Journal. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  13. ^ Colin Barker (February 17, 2009). "ZManda puts SME backup in the cloud". ZDNet. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  14. ^ "Zmanda Announces ZCloud API". Press release. Dr Dobb's. August 12, 2009. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  15. ^ David Hill (August 18, 2009). "Zmanda Sees The Sunshine In Cloud Backup". Network Computing. Archived from the original on April 25, 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  16. ^ Austin Modine (February 22, 2010). "Zmanda hooks Tivoli cop into MySQL: Open source backup glue". The Register. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  17. ^ "Carbonite Completes Acquisition of Zmanda". Press release. November 1, 2012. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  18. ^ Jeff Thomas (May 8, 2017). "Redux for Rebit: Carbonite sells Rebit assets to Broomfield's Betsol". BizWest. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  19. ^ "Zmanda 4.0 Release - Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery". Press release. December 29, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  20. ^ Evan Koblentz (July 23, 2018). "How to get started with open source backup software". Tech Republic. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  21. ^ Justin Gesso (6 July 2021). "Zmanda 4.1 Release Announcement". Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  22. ^ Zmanda Case Study: Amazon Web Services Archived May 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Aws.amazon.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  23. ^ Zmanda introduces ZCloud storage cloud API for backup. Wwpi.com (2009-08-17). Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  24. ^ Zmanda Brings Open Source Backup to the Cloud. EnterpriseStorageForum.com (2009-02-19). Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
  25. ^ "Microsoft Customer Stories". Microsoft.
  26. ^ Don't Get Lost in the Cloud (MSFT, ORCL, SYMC). Fool.com (2013-03-09). Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
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