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Customer Success Stories

“Since the installation of Amanda Enterprise in May, I have tested Windows and Mac restores without a hitch. Now we can backup with confidence.”

Matthew Lewis, Enterprise Backup Architect, PowerReviews Inc.

PowerReviews

PowerReviews is an enterprise solutions company that provides customer reviews and social merchandising solutions to multi-channel retailers and their shoppers. PowerReviews’ technology platform collects, organizes, structures and moderates relevance-based reviews to help online retailers to significantly boost their sales.

Business Challenges

Reduce risk associated with hardware failure
Ability to backup file systems as well as applications
Need a scalable backup solution to protect an ever growing heterogeneous IT infrastructure
Cost reduction

Chosen Solution

Amanda Enterprise Backup Server
Zmanda Mac OS X Clients
Zmanda Windows Clients
Zmanda QuickStart Service Pack

Business Benefits

Reduced corporate risk by implementing a reliable backup solution
Improved backup operations across Linux, Mac and Windows systems & applications
Increased backup flexibility by allowing employees to backup locally or remotely via VPN
Ease of adding new clients
Reduced storage hardware cost by having a clearer picture of backup storage utilization
Reduced storage requirements with ability to exclude certain file type such as MP3
Full success story

Vyatta

“Every morning, I have peace of mind after looking at the Zmanda backup logs.”

Ray Zhu, Senior IT Manager, Vyatta

Vyatta has changed the networking world by developing the first commercially supported, open source router and firewall solution. Vyatta solutions combine the features, performance, and reliability of an enterprise router and firewall with the cost savings, flexibility, and security of open source to introduce new levels of economics, choice, and control into the network.

Business Challenges

In-house custom backup scripts not scalable nor reliable
Need to support multiple flavors of Linux including Fedora, Debian, Red Hat and Ubuntu
Need a backup software with an easy-to-use GUI
Require open data formats

Chosen Solution

Amanda Enterprise Backup Servers
Zmanda Linux Clients

Business Benefits

More efficient utilization of IT resources by eliminating custom backup scripts
Automated backup processes with reliable recovery built in
Simple installation and GUI-based backup administration further reduces IT costs
Added flexibility to recover data using basic Linux tar and gzip commands without requiring backup software

Full success story

Prognosys Biosciences

“The static backup of raw data sets was new to Zmanda. They wrote a script to automate their backup and were not only knowledgeable in what they were doing, Zmanda’s engineers went out of their way to develop a solution that worked for us.”

Dr. Mike Thompson, Prognosys

Prognosys Biosciences is a leader in genomics. The company develops and applies innovative DNA sequencing technologies to enable predictive medicine.

Business Challenges

Protect colossal amounts of molecular data (>20 TB)
Eliminate risks associated with equipment failure
Reduce costs
Increase data security
Access to open source code and archived data

Chosen Solution

Amanda Enterprise Backup Server on Linux
Zmanda Solaris Clients
Zmanda QuickStart Service Pack

Business Benefits

Improved backup performance and ability to scale with data and system growth
Reduced risk with dependable backup verification and restore
Reduced costs by 80%
Increased data security with client or server side encryption and role-based data access
Achieved vendor independence with the ability to restore data using standard operating system tools and utilities
Increased operational reliability with 24x7 technical support by Zmanda
Full success story