http://www.zmanda.com/blogs Wed, 16 May 2012 22:16:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we are thrilled to announce a new version of Zmanda Cloud  Backup (ZCB) that backs up to Google Cloud Storage. It feels great to support perhaps the first mainstream cloud storage service we were introduced to (via the breakthrough Gmail and other Google services) and considering the huge promise ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=750 We are very excited to see the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and OpenStack Essex, especially the Essex version of OpenStack Swift, and the brand-new Dashboard. We have not yet seen any performance review on the OpenStack Swift Essex running on Ubuntu 12.o4. The official Dashboard Demo introduced the components of ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=686 As we mentioned in an earlier blog that it may seem ironical that we are using a public compute cloud to come up with an optimized private storage cloud. But ready availability of diverse type of EC2 based VMs, makes AWS a great platform for running the Sampling and Profiling ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=665 In our last blog on building Swift storage clouds, we proposed the framework for the Swift Advisor - a technique that takes two of  the three constraints (Capacity, Performance, Cost) as  inputs,  and provides hardware recommendations as output - specifically count and configuration of systems for each type of ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=641 OpenStack Swift is an open source cloud storage platform, which can be used to build massively scalable and highly robust storage clouds. There are two key use cases of Swift: A service provider offering cloud storage with a well defined RESTful HTTP API - i.e. a Public Storage Cloud. An ecosystem ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=567 As MySQL continues to grow (as a technology and as an ecosystem) the need and importance of creating and deploying robust MySQL backup solutions grows as well. In many circles Zmanda is known as "The MySQL Backup Company". While we provide backup of a wide variety of environments, we gladly ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=554 Today, we released ZCB 4.1, a major update to our prior version 4.0.2. In addition to significant polish and general fixes, ZCB 4.1 has several features requested by our customers. Here is a walkthrough: Better utilize your Internet bandwidth based on your work schedule Traditionally, data backup is seen as an activity to ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=529 A well-known challenge of new technologies such as cloud backup is that there are no set standards. Take pricing, what would you expect to pay for storing 10 GB of your data on cloud today? Given that the answer can be anything from zero to a few hundred dollars, how ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=514 Okay first let me say this: I love Dropbox and like many of you depend on it each day to seamlessly access my important files from office/home/shared computers and from my cell phone. Also ever since Dropbox released the developer APIs, an increasing number of innovative applications (see here and ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=484 Heute haben wir die sofortige Verfügbarkeit von Zmanda Cloud-Backup (ZCB) 4, unserem umfassenden Sicherungsprogramm für Windows-Server, Desktops und Laptops angekündigt. Das ermöglicht Ihnen, Ihre Daten und Systeme in dezentraken Rechenzentren (Cloud) zu sichern. Innerhalb der letzten Wochen ist ZCB 4 als ein begrenztes Beta-Programm ausgiebig von vielen ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=460