The companys flagship offering is the zmanda network, a suite of enterprise software and services based on the. In this webinar, we will demonstrate the latest zrm enhancements so that you can build a robust, flexible, and easy to use backup and recovery solution. Businesses around the world could easily back up to a cloud repository in the u. Chander kant is founder and ceo of zmanda, a provider of open source backup solutions that exploit the capabilities of cloud storage services such as amazons s3 to supplement the traditional onpremise backup practices of their business customers i spoke with chander recently to learn more about the company, and to understand the particular issues associated with moving backup data to. Zmanda recovery manager now available for ubuntu ubuntu. May 07, 2009 chander kant is founder and ceo of zmanda, a provider of open source backup solutions that exploit the capabilities of cloud storage services such as amazons s3 to supplement the traditional onpremise backup practices of their business customers. Zmanda is connecting the dots between open source backup, cloudbased storage, microsoft applications and managed services. Zmanda introduces zcloud storage cloud api for backup. Zmanda is a company much like red hat and xensource in that it provides commercialized versions and support for specific open source software. Proprietary backup and recovery by chander kant, ceo, zmanda corporation. Chander also offers several best practices that can help it ensure that its backup and recovery plans are efficient and effective.
Designed to accelerate open source adoption worldwide, market start gives enterprise open source vendors access to novells global sales and marketing channels to bring their solutions. Our mission is to bring down the cost of backup and disaster recovery dramatically, said chander kant, zmandas chief executive officer. Zmanda s goals in 2007, kant said, is to further product development, expanded sales and marketing. May 08, 2008 zmanda also announced support for innodb hotbackup, a utility used for online backup of innodb tables. Zmanda launches open source backup app for the enterprise. Netware news from zmanda, alexander lan and vmware. No initial budget for backup software and backup server. With 50 percent sequential growth from the third to the fourth quarter, zmanda s message is already catching on, said ceo chander kant.
Zmanda competitors, revenue and employees owler company profile. Aug 12, 2009 zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced zcloud, an open api, that will radically simplify the developme zmanda introduces zcloud storage cloud api for backup. Zmanda presents radically simple mysql backup and recovery. Netware news from zmanda, alexander lan and vmware network. Chander kant chander is the ceo and a founder of zmanda. Zmanda isnt in a sexy market, but its software is slick, useful, and a dramatic cost improvement over its competitors. You should note that zmandas execs have strong backgrounds in the archive and backup space ceo and cofounder chander kant was formerly with veritas software, while vice president of product. Our mission is to bring down the cost of backup and disaster recovery dramatically, said chander kant, zmanda s chief executive officer. Ann ruckstuhl, zmandas vice president of sales and marketing, and dmitri. Proprietary backup software vendors design their backup and recovery solutions so that the same software used for backup is required for recovery. Zmanda ceo chander kant told me a bit about the effort thursday in new york. Zmanda is the leader in open source backup and cloud backup zmanda is the worlds leading provider of open source backup and recovery software. With an upgrade to its flagship amanda enterprise edition data backup and disaster recovery software, zmanda brings open source.
We are pursuing both sourcelevel on the backup client and targetlevel on the storage media deduplication, said chander kant, the ceo of zmanda, who noted that amanda has already been tested and certified with several targetlevel. Aug 16, 2006 network and amanda enterprise software, please go to the zmanda website at about zmanda. Zmandas goals in 2007, kant said, is to further product development, expanded sales and marketing. This is a video of chander kant, ceo of zmanda inc, taken during mysql conference in early may at the santa clara convention center.
Chander kant, ceo of zmanda in 2008, we saw cloud storage as the perfect destination for business data. Appliances make backup software process easier and offers flexibility for cloud computing. The latest release of zrm for mysql includes important enhancements that we added based, in large part, on feedback from the mysql dba community, said chander kant, zmanda ceo. Chander kant is ceo and founder of zmanda the leader in cloud backup and open source backup. Zmanda, cleversafe debut open storage network world. The software s intelligent scheduler algorithm that figure. Zmanda announces virtual backup appliance business wire. Amanda uses similar formats as typical homegrown scripts. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and cloud storage software. Product lines we have two product lines that will keep us busy for the next year or so, kant said. Zrm for mysql now supports all major linux distributions. With more than 10 million active installations, including top internet and web 2.
Jul 17, 2008 zmanda is a longtime mysql partner meaning that many mysql database customers backup their systems using zmanda. May 15, 2009 chander kant, ceo of zmanda in 2008, we saw cloud storage as the perfect destination for business data. Zmanda ceo chander kant talks about backup and the cloud. Speaking of the open source community as a whole, he says, we are. This is the fourth out of nine interviews i conducted earlier this month at. Dec 20, 2006 the latest release of zrm for mysql includes important enhancements that we added based, in large part, on feedback from the mysql dba community, said chander kant, zmanda ceo. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover chander s.
Zmanda recovery manager for mysql provides integration with netapp snapshot technology for highest level of data protection. Zmanda cloud backup product became the flagship carbonite product. Our message of lowcost and flexibility is definitely jiving with it managers, he said. While ibmled aperi brought attention and confusion to the role of open source in storage in the past year, smaller companies are also working to close the gap between open source and storage. There are some major features that have been available in the very high end of software high end from a cost perspective. Zmanda ceo talks about backup and the cloud paul miller. Backup software, however, is optimized to simplify recovery, sometimes to a different platform or different location and often by someone other than the original owner of the data. Zmanda announces backup and recovery for virtualized. Zmanda delivers innovative continuous data protection cdp. While we provide backup of a wide variety of environments, we gladly take the label of backing up the most popular open source database in the world, especially as we kick off our presence at the 2012 mysql conference. Zmanda is a longtime mysql partner meaning that many mysql database customers backup their systems using zmanda. Zmanda, a provider of open source backup and recovery software, has announced zmanda backup appliance zba, a preconfigured virtual backup server powered by suse linux enterprise server which the vendor says runs on vmware server, vsphere4, esx, and esxi.
While we provide backup of a wide variety of environments, we gladly take the label of backing up the most popular open source database in the world. Amzn simple storage service s3, and amanda enterprise version 3. Zmanda competitors, revenue and employees owler company. Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced zcloud, an open api, that will radically simplify the developme. Miniinterview with chander kant of zmanda eugenia loli 20060428 original osnews interviews 6 comments zmanda, inc. Zmanda takes on symantec, microsoft in cloud backup. The ability to optimize backups of live vms makes zmandas backup solutions even more attractive for modern it environments. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover chanders. Sounds great, but can zmanda really displace bigtime storage companies like symantec. Zmanda recovery manager zrm for mysql for scheduling full and incremental backups of mysql database. Zmanda is an open source backup and recovery solution for the. Zmanda already offered customers the option of using amazons s3 cloud as a target for backups, but the new version integrates optimization features such as amanda enterprises scheduler. Mysql databases are increasingly used by high volume, high transaction applications.
He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the top 20 linux luminaries by linux world magazine in 2004. Chander kant is founder and ceo of zmanda, a provider of open source backup solutions that exploit the capabilities of cloud storage services such as amazons s3 to supplement the traditional onpremise backup practices of their business customers i spoke with chander recently to learn more about the company, and to understand the particular issues associated with moving. I first met chander kant, ceo of open source cloud back provider zmanda, last year at the mysql conference. May 08, 2009 chander kant is founder and ceo of zmanda, a provider of open source backup solutions that exploit the capabilities of cloud storage services such as amazons s3 to supplement the traditional onpremise backup practices of their business customers. Zmanda recovery manager zrm for mysql simplifies the life of a database administrator who needs an easytouse yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for mysql server. We are to open source backup like mysql is to the open source database market, crows chander kant, ceo of zmanda in sunnyvale, calif. Zba significantly simplifies the backup and recovery process thus freeing it professionals to focus on higher level functions, said chander kant, chief executive office, zmanda. Trumpets opensource backup in hopes of battling symantec, ibm, and emc. Businesses around the world could easily back up to. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software.
Our open source development and distribution model enables us to deliver the highest quality backup software such as amanda and zmanda recovery manager for mysql at a fraction of the cost of software from proprietary vendors. Support for ubuntu, the fastestgrowing linux distribution, will expand the market for zrm, and the new enterprise features, such as better support for remote. Zmanda strives to crack open backup network computing. Chander kant, zmanda ceo, said via email that using amazon as a storage backend works better for customers than some of the bigger names in online storage. These environments demand the highest level of data protection and the shortest data recovery window possible, said chander kant, zmandas ceo. Zmanda was founded in september 2005 to bring the benefits of open source software to the data protection market. Zmanda supports, research, press releases, contact info.
View chander kants profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Dec 21, 2006 anonymous reader writes zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that zmanda recovery manager zrm for mysql the only comprehensive, enterpriseclass backup and recovery solution designed specifically for mysql databases is available on ubuntu. View chander kants profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional. Prior to zmanda, chander founded and ran linuxcertified, inc. Any software or licenses or other similar notices described in this text has its. Zmandas open source backup solutions deliver comprehensive data protection of vmware environments at a fraction of the cost and complexity of competitive offerings, said chander kant, chief executive officer, zmanda. Just like jonathan, this time around i caught him on film. May 30, 2006 this is a video of chander kant, ceo of zmanda inc, taken during mysql conference in early may at the santa clara convention center.
Launched new products and managed various pr and marketing programs worldwide. In many circles zmanda is known as the mysql backup company. The company this week unveiled zmanda cloud backup, an online backup and disaster recovery offering for microsoft nasdaq. Zmanda launches first comprehensive backup for mysql. Zmanda announces virtual backup appliance database.
The primary goal is to make backup and recovery a simple process, even for small businesses that dont have a fulltime it staff, says chander kant, the ceo of sunnyvale, calif. Proprietary backup and recovery by chander kant, ceo, zmanda corporation proprietary backup software vendors design their backup and recovery solutions so that the same software used for backup is required for recovery. It offers amanda enterprise, an open source backup and recovery software to protect linux, solaris, windows, and mac os x environments. The combination of zmandas affordable open source backup software and amazons online storage solution will fundamentally change the way businesses backup and archive corporate data. Kant estimates that zmanda can cost onefifth to onetenth the price of.
Zmanda is an open source and cloud backup software company providing software and. We are pursuing both sourcelevel on the backup client and targetlevel on the storage media deduplication, said chander kant, the ceo of zmanda, who noted that amanda has already been tested and certified with several. View chander kant s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Msft exchange and sql server based on amazons nasdaq. Zmandas current ceo, chander kant, will move to the cto role. Anonymous reader writes zmanda, the leader in open source data protection, today announced that it has been selected to join novells market start program for innovative open source companies. Zmanda, an open source, cloudbased data backup company, aims to change that.
Zmanda supports all storage engines and provides pointintime recovery for mysql. Zmanda provides open source data protection software based on the amanda project, and should benefit from petes experience. Zmanda enhances backup and dr for vmware storagenewsletter. Zmanda has 2 current team members, including ceo chander kant. Zba is intended to enable it organizations to install a backup and recovery solution for heterogeneous. Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today. Kant was in manhattan to discuss zmandas support of sun microsystems new open cloud computing platform which is expected to compete with amazons elastic compute cloud ec2 and simple storage service s3.
The top 10 competitors in zmandas competitive set are nasuni, softnas, zadara, zetta, arkeia, mezeo software, storagecraft, infiniteio, acronis and bitcasa. Oct 27, 2006 zmanda strives to crack open backup october 27, 2006 while ibmled aperi brought attention and confusion to the role of open source in storage in the past year, smaller companies are also working to close the gap between open source and storage. Zmanda, which is based on amandaopen source backup and recovery software, has likewise begun to include deduplication in its software. May 18, 2016 appliances make backup software process easier and offers flexibility for cloud computing. Zmandas revenue is the ranked 9th among its top 10 competitors.
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