Zmanda Drives Down the Cost of NDMP and VMware Backup

Disaster Recovery Option for Amanda Enterprise Is Also Released - Radically
Reducing the Cost and Complexity of the Disaster Recovery Process
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, introduced a
major upgrade of its flagship product - Amanda Enterprise Version 3.1. The
world`s leading open source backup product now offers high-end features and
functions that make it optimal for protecting modern data centers - including
Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) and VMware Backup - at one tenth the
price and complexity of proprietary solutions.

Zmanda also announced the availability of the Disaster Recovery (DR) Option for
Amanda Enterprise. This option enables IT managers to create a remote disaster
recovery solution by replicating the backup server itself. This avoids the need
of replicating each individual data set, thus drastically reducing the cost of
DR. Data from all critical platforms and applications can be replicated without
having to buy and deploy replication technology for each specific platform and
application.

"Zmanda continues to bring down cost and complexity of backup and disaster
recovery processes for small to mid size companies," said Arun Taneja, founder,
Taneja Group. "Amanda Enterprise should be on the short list of any IT manager
looking for a backup solution."

With the addition of NDMP support, Amanda Enterprise 3.1 now delivers high
performance backup and recovery of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices such
as NetApp Storage Systems. NDMP allows the backup data to be transported
directly from the NAS device to the backup device without passing through the
Amanda Enterprise server. This speeds up backups in many environments, thus
reducing the backup window, as well as minimizes the demands placed on the
corporate LAN.

VMware Hypervisor support allows Amanda Enterprise users to efficiently manage
the backups of virtual environments. Now users can take an image-level backup of
the entire virtual machine from the Amanda server without the need to install
client software on each individual virtual machine. This significantly reduces
the overhead cost of installing and managing the backup architecture and
improves performance by requiring fewer applications to be installed and running
in the virtual environment.

According to a recent report from analyst firm Gartner, half of all workloads
will be running in virtual machines by 2012 and small business is the fastest
growing sector for virtualization. Being able to efficiently and affordably
address backup needs of these virtualized environments will be key to this
adoption.

"With the introduction of NDMP and VMware backup support, customers can look to
Amanda Enterprise to provide high end features and functions at an affordable
price," said Chander Kant, chief executive officer, Zmanda. "These features were
previously only available in enterprise solutions at premium prices and taxing
complexity, but can now be enjoyed by the masses."

Other enhancements in Amanda Enterprise 3.1 include:

* XML Reporting - In addition to providing visual backup reporting through the
web-based Zmanda Management Console, Amanda Enterprise 3.1 adds support for
exporting backup reports in XML schema. This opens up the reports to be
integrated with various reporting and management tools.
* Microsoft Exchange 2010 support - The latest version of Microsoft Exchange has
been added to the ever increasing umbrella of supported applications and
platforms.

Amanda Enterprise is an enhanced and supported version of the world`s most
popular open source backup and recovery software. Amanda Enterprise allows users
to easily and affordably backup, archive, and recover servers, workstations,
desktops and business-critical applications across a network. The backup data
and archives can be stored on disks, tape, optical devices or storage clouds
such as Amazon S3.

Targeted at SMBs and departmental customers, Amanda Enterprise 3.1 is
immediately available through Zmanda`s online store at a starting price of $100
per client and $300 per application agent. For more information, please contact
zsales@zmanda.com or visit www.zmanda.com/aee.

About Zmanda

Zmanda, based in Sunnyvale, California, is the global leader in open source
enterprise backup and recovery. The company`s products - Amanda Enterprise,
Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, and Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) - make it
simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and
heterogeneous IT environment. Amanda Enterprise is an enterprise-grade, network
backup solution based on Amanda, the world`s most popular open source backup and
recovery software with more than half a million active installations worldwide.
ZRM for MySQL is the first mission-critical backup solution designed
specifically for MySQL databases. ZCB is the first Windows backup solution to
backup both files and live applications to the Amazon S3 storage cloud.
Businesses in more than 55 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate
data. For more information about Zmanda, please contact zsales@zmanda.com or go
to http://www.zmanda.com/.

Robinson Marketing
Diane Miller, 253-839-9027
diane@robinsonmarketingcorp.com

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