Proven, Cost-Effective Open Source Backup and Recovery

Zmanda is the world’s 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 Enterprise and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL at a fraction of the cost of software from proprietary vendors. Our simple-to-use yet feature-rich backup software is complemented by top-notch services and support expected by enterprise customers.

Zmanda’s innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) backs up a Windows server and live applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server to Amazon S3 — a highly dependable and scalable online storage.

Zmanda contributes significant development resources to open source data protection projects that share our vision. We also provide hardware, collaboration tools and financial assistance to key developers in the open source community.

Some of the world’s most forward thinking companies in 60 countries benefit from the collective insights of a thriving open source backup community delivered in form of Zmanda’s products and people.

Chander Kant

Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. 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. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Paddy Sreenivasan

Paddy is the Vice President of Engineering and a founder of Zmanda. He is responsible for technical strategy and development of leading software products for data protection. Paddy has over 13 years of experience in development and management of software for enterprise storage. In addition, he has worked with various open source communities, including leading the development of an open source high-availability clustering solution. Prior to founding Zmanda, he had key engineering roles at Cisco, SGI and HP. He holds a Bachelor's degree from BITS, Pilani and a Master's degree from the University of Pune, India.