http://www.zmanda.com/blogs Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:58:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 Today, we announced the immediate availability of Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) 4, our comprehensive cloud backup offering for Windows servers, desktops and laptops. ZCB 4 had been under a limited beta program for past few weeks and was extensively tested by many end users and resellers. We received some ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=435 We are adding support for Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB). This is the fifth worldwide location supported by ZCB. This support provides faster uploads for ZCB users in Japan. Throughput will be significantly higher because of less hops along the way and very high bandwidth connections typically ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=423 Setting up of a good backup and recovery strategy is crucial for any serious MySQL implementation. This strategy can vary from site to site based on various factors including size of the database, rate of change, security needs, retention and other compliance policy etc. In general, it is also required ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=412 If you are coming to this year's Oracle OpenWorld 2010, please do visit us at Booth #3824. We will have our backup solution experts at the show to discuss any of your database or infrastructure backup needs. When it comes to backing up various products offered by Oracle, we have several solutions: Amanda ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=403 If you are in charge of ensuring backup and disaster recovery of critical servers for your business, you have undoubtedly grappled with unwieldy tapes. In this age of digital everything, writing to tapes and then shipping them to a remote location seems like a relic from another era. Advances in ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=379 Most small and medium sized business do not have a formal Disaster Recovery (DR) plan and implementation because of its cumbersome and costly nature. Various factors make DR complex, including: (1) Allocation and administration of remote compute and storage resources; (2) Data transport mechanism - e.g. tape shipment or data ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=367 An increasing number of large MySQL applications, e.g. social networking and SaaS back-ends, use a distributed MySQL architecture. MySQL data is distributed logically or heuristically on multiple, and in some cases thousands of, real or virtual servers. Backing up such large and dynamic environments presents its own complexities. In this blog, ... http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=325