View chander kant s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Zmanda ceo chander kant told me a bit about the effort thursday in new york. Nick brockner, hamilton college dustin mitchell, zmanda. Initially developed at the university of maryland in 1991, amanda has been in use as an open source data protection project by academia for more than decade. Zmanda delivers innovative continuous data protection cdp. Zmanda recovery manager zrm for mysql centralized backup and recovery of multiple mysql databases schedule full and incremental backups perform logical or raw backups of mysql database get email or rss notification about status of backups monitoring and reporting enforcement of site or application specific backup policies. You can also use compute clouds as inexpensive dr site for your mysql databases. 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. Chander kant discusses how zmanda leverages amazon s3 to provide backup and recovery services in the cloud. Zmanda introduces second generation of zmanda cloud backup. Sun begins new push into cloud services market computerworld.
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. Carrying out these plans would put zmanda ahead of most of the cloudbased backup market. Zmanda does cloud storage for less with open source. Mar 21, 20 increasingly, smbs today have complex it environments that can make managing their backups more challenging, and often more complex, said chander kant, president of zmanda, a carbonite company. We got together to exchange notes on strategies and markets that are working well for our respective companies. Zmanda ceo chander kant talks about backup and the cloud.
These environments demand the highest level of data protection and the shortest data recovery window possible, said chander kant, zmandas ceo. Aug 16, 2006 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. Appliances make backup software process easier and offers flexibility for cloud computing. Zmanda windows client the open source backup wiki amanda. Zmanda, in open source backup and recovery software, announced two major additions to the companys rapidly expanding suite of open source backup and recovery solutions. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. Because the zmanda windows client is packaged as an.
Zmanda with internetbased windows backup solutions. In many circles zmanda is known as the mysql backup company. Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today. 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. Consummate winwin negotiator, with keen sense of longterm interests of the. But with the cloud api, smaller providers can integrate with our. Zwc service will fail to start if these ports are used.
Zmanda adds cloud disaster recovery to zmanda cloud backup. You should note that zmanda s 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. 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. Chander kant is ceo and founder of zmanda the leader in cloud backup and open source backup. Designed to accelerate open source adoption worldwide, market start gives enterprise open source vendors access to novells global sales and marketing channels. No other service on the client should use these ports. This intuitive this intuitive interface will make managing amanda dramatically easy. Zmanda is an open source backup and recovery solution for the.
For mysql databases running on windows, our zmanda cloud backup product provides a very easy and inexpensive way to backup to. Prweb january 8, 2008 zmanda, the open source leader in backup and recovery software, today announced that it has added solaris 10 and mac os x to the growing list of platforms supported by its flagship product, amanda enterprise. Ceo chander kant said zmanda is adding support for cloud backup of suns nasdaq. Zmanda is the leader in open source backup and cloud backup zmanda is the worlds leading provider of open source backup and recovery 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. 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. Zmandas goals in 2007, kant said, is to further product development, expanded sales and marketing. Mysql databases are increasingly used by high volume, high transaction applications. Zmanda, cleversafe debut open storage network world. Amanda enterprise now covers all major it platforms, delivering a commercialgrade backup and recovery solution. Ram tk krishnamurthy and chander kant created date. No initial budget for backup software and backup server.
See the complete profile on linkedin and discover chanders. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover chander s connections and jobs at similar companies. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and cloud storage software. Carb said thursday it has reached a deal to acquire sunnyvale, calif. Prior to zmanda, chander founded and ran linuxcertified, inc. Zmanda is connecting the dots between open source backup, cloudbased storage, microsoft applications and managed services. The worlds leading open source backup and recovery product now offers highend features and functions that make it optimal for protecting modern data centers including disaster recovery to the cloud and enterpriselevel media and device.
Jun 12, 2010 chander kant discusses how zmanda leverages amazon s3 to provide backup and recovery services in the cloud. Netware news from zmanda, alexander lan and vmware. Miniinterview with chander kant of zmanda eugenia loli 20060428 original osnews interviews 6 comments zmanda, inc. This is a video of chander kant, ceo of zmanda inc, taken during mysql conference in early may at the santa clara convention center. Zmanda s goals in 2007, kant said, is to further product development, expanded sales and marketing. Kant estimates that zmanda can cost onefifth to onetenth the price of.
Zmanda has 2 current team members, including ceo chander kant. See this thread for one possible solution zmanda windows client only supports estimate server and estimate client, not estimate calcsize. Zmanda cloud backup product became the flagship carbonite product. Open source backup and data protection enterprise systems. This is the fifth worldwide location supported by zcb. Netware news from zmanda, alexander lan and vmware network. Zmanda recovery manager zrm for mysql for scheduling full and incremental backups of mysql. Zmanda, in open source backup and recovery software, introduced a major upgrade of its product amanda enterprise version 3.
If you use cloudbased backups as part of your dr, you need to design your backup sets for recovery, said chander kant, ceo and founder at zmanda inc. Public or private cloud storage is a great choice for offsite store for backup archives. The first new solution is zmanda internet backup zib, an internetbased backup solution for windows environments that stores its backup files on amazons popular simple storage service s3. Other new features include geography control, selective restore, and security and performance enhancements. With an upgrade to its flagship amanda enterprise edition data backup and disaster recovery software, zmanda brings open source. Gui that allows windows users to easily automate their. Oct 19, 2012 carbonite acquires cloud backup specialist zmanda. Open source, chander kant, cloud backup i am very excited to share that today zmanda has combined forces with carbonite the best known brand in cloud backup. Zmanda cloud backup zcb is a guibased backup solution that allows windows users to automate their backup and recovery process, and files are stored in native windows format so users can access and reuse files even without zcb. Oracle 11g on windows has a vss writer mysql actual files depend on storage engine being used myisam.
As server backup migrates now to the cloud, zmandas. I spoke with chander kant, ceo of zmanda open source backup and recovery solutions provider, about the data protection and disaster recovery landscape and how open source can play a. Zmanda with internetbased windows backup solutions storing. I spoke with chander kant, ceo of zmanda open source backup and recovery solutions provider, about the data protection and disaster recovery landscape and how open source can play a role in the enterprise. It offers amanda enterprise, an open source backup and recovery software to protect linux, solaris, windows, and mac os x environments. Feb 18, 2009 later this spring, kant said zmanda will also add the ability to back up data from amazons elastic compute cloud ec2 to s3 for longterm storage, as well as the ability to backup from cloud services to onpremise storage. We will have our backup solution experts at the show to discuss any of your database or infrastructure backup needs. Zmanda windows client users manual zmanda documentation. Zmanda takes on symantec, microsoft in cloud backup.
Product lines we have two product lines that will keep us busy for the next year or so, kant said. 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. Zmanda delivers enterpriseclass open source backup. For the latter, it integrates with microsofts visual shadow copy service to ease the archiving of. May 08, 2008 zmanda also announced support for innodb hotbackup, a utility used for online backup of innodb tables. I want to take this opportunity to introduce you to carbonite and tell you what this announcement means to the extended zmanda family, including our employees, customers, resellers and. 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. Data can be encrypted or compressed before transfer for greater security and bandwidth optimization. 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. View chander kants profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Zmanda recovery manager now available for ubuntu ubuntu. Zmanda announces virtual backup appliance business wire. Kant said zmanda lowered its storage and bandwidth prices as much as 33% in some instances. As server backup migrates now to the cloud, zmanda s cloud backup.
Nick brockner, hamilton college dustin mitchell, zmanda, inc. Since the company came out of stealth two years ago, its zmanda product has been installed on 500,000 machines worldwide, according to ceo chander kant. Zmanda announces virtual backup appliance for vmware. Zmanda takes windows to the cloud cloud backup tutorial. Being open with the apis will help partners to build on top of suns services more quickly, according to chander kant, ceo of zmanda inc. Open source backup tool adds support for windows, oracle. Zmanda will back up oracle applications running on linux, solaris or windows systems. Apr 23, 20 open source, mysql backup and recovery, chander kant, cloud backup we are adding support for asia pacific tokyo region in zmanda cloud backup zcb. Zmanda can also offer nonwindows customers support for applications, which microsofts dpm doesnt, while coming in at a cheaper price point than most proprietary backup software.
How to leverage cloud backup services for major clouds like microsoft azure and amazon s3, well do the integration ourselves, said zmanda ceo chander kant. Zmanda launches open source backup app for the enterprise. Zmanda is working on a web based graphical interface to configure, manage and monitor various data protection technologies. 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. Increasingly, smbs today have complex it environments that can make managing their backups more challenging, and often more complex, said chander kant, president of zmanda, a carbonite company. Jan 08, 2008 mac and solaris users now have access to bestinbreed enterprise backup and recovery solutions based on the innovations and contributions from the open source community, while enjoying 24x7 commercial support from zmanda, said chander kant, zmanda ceo. With more than twenty years of ongoing development and significant research and development investment from zmanda in past seven years, amanda is recognized as one of the most robust backup platforms built for todays businesses, said chander kant, founder and ceo of zmanda. Zmanda, a provider of open source backup and recovery software, has introduced the second generation of its zmanda cloud backup zcb product, which provides new features such as cloud backup of mysql and sharepoint. Zcb is a windows backup solution to backup both files and live applications to the storage cloud, while zrm for mysql is a backup solution. Zmanda recovery manager zrm for mysql for scheduling full and incremental backups of mysql database. Java mysql and microsoft sharepoint on top of its existing support for windows file servers, sql servers, microsoft exchange, virtual machines and oracle.
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. Zmanda is an open source and cloud backup software company providing software and. 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. This multiplatform management console is planned with the next major amanda. Zmanda supports, research, press releases, contact info.