Current webinars:

How to Transition from On-Premises to the Cloud

The webinar will start with an introduction to cloud computing and data storage in the cloud and will feature a panel discussion addressing important issues in cloud computing. Bring your questions — there will be a live Q&A and one of the speakers may even answer your question live on the webinar.

Attend this webinar to:

Learn how to integrate the cloud into your IT strategy
Hear about real-world examples of companies using the cloud for data backup and recovery
Understand the hurdles to moving to the cloud, and how you can overcome them

Who:

Chander Kant — CEO & Founder, Zmanda
Michael Crandell — CEO & Founder, RightScale
Moderated by Dave Nielsen — Founder, CloudCamp and Principal Consultant, Platform D

When: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM UK (London) / 20:00 CET
This webinar will followed by Q&A.

Recent webinars:

Amanda Enterprise 3.0 — An Overview

Amanda Enterprise (AE) 3.0 represents a major step forward in bringing highest level of data protection features at fraction of the cost of proprietary backup software. AE 3.0 adds Postgres and SharePoint to its ever expanding set of supported applications and platforms. AE 3.0 adds various media management features, making configuration of backup media radically simple. This release is optimized to backup to the storage clouds — a great disaster recovery alternative. In this webinar, we will talk about these new features of AE 3.0 and provide an overview of the product.

Who: Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering and Jacob Shucart, Data Protection Solutions Engineer, Zmanda

When: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT, 17:00 GMT
This presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A.

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Get to Know Zmanda!

Zmanda, founded in 2005, is the worldwide leader in open source backup. In this webinar we will discuss Zmanda’s products, innovations and business model. We will also discuss why considering Zmanda’s low-cost yet feature rich backup products are even more attractive in these challenging economic times. We will go over the importance of using open formats for your backup archives. Brief introduction to the three products offered by Zmanda will be provided: Amanda Enterprise, Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL, and Zmanda Internet Backup.

Who: Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda

When: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT, 17:00 GMT

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Power Reporting with Amanda Enterprise

Amanda Enterprise, fully supported edition of world’s most popular open source backup software, allows you to save money on backup and recovery for your organization. In the webinar, you will learn how to use the powerful monitoring and reporting features in Amanda Enterprise effectively.

Specifically, you will learn how to:

Verify installation
Diagnose backup issues
Learn where the bottlenecks occur
Plan for backup media expansion

Join us and learn how to get the most value out of reporting and monitoring in Amanda Enterprise.

When: Wednesday, October 22, 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST

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Radically Simple & Low Cost Network Backup

Join Zmanda for a unique introduction to Amanda Enterprise, the world’s most popular (and cost effective) commercial open source backup & recovery software. Optimized to radically centralized simplify backup and recovery for heterogeneous systems, databases and applications, Amanda Enterprise efficiently protects your critical data and enables IT professionals to defend against mishaps and respond quickly to backup & recovery requests anytime, anywhere, even from your iPhone.

Learn more about how you can:

Centrally backup Linux, Solaris, Mac, Windows, MS SQL, MS Exchange, and Oracle
Perform hot backup without impacting users & applications
Perform remote backup & recovery via an easy-to-use web management console
Store your backup to disk, tape, optical jukeboxes or Amazon S3 storage cloud
Ensure data security with robust encryption technology
Increase performance with proven compression and smart scheduling technologies
Take back control of your data. Backup with open file formats only. No more vendor lock in.
Automate data retention and disposition policies
Leverage reports to quickly discover problems and manage capacity & compliance
Save up to 80% as compared to similar backup software from Symantec and EMC

Find out why organizations in over 25 countries trust Amanda Enterprise to protect their mission-critical data. Amanda was recently awarded Best of Open Source Software Award in the storage category.

Who: Ken Crandall, Senior Technologist, Zmanda

When: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 10:00am PDT, 1:00 EDT, 17:00 GMT
This presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A.

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Amanda Enterprise 2.6.4: An Overview

Amanda Enterprise, fully supported edition of world's most popular open source backup software, had a major release recently with support for many frequently asked for features. In this webinar we will provide an overview of Amanda Enterprise, including what is new in version 2.6.4. We will describe various platforms and applications (including Oracle!) supported in this new release. We will also describe advances made in the Zmanda Windows Client to make your Windows backups easier and comprehensive. Come and learn why Amanda Enterprise provides best value and peace-of-mind for enterprise backup - even more now than ever.

When: Thursday, July 17, 2008.

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Leveraging Replication to Optimize MySQL Backup & Disaster Recovery

In a global market, the uptime and performance of your MySQL database is critical. Taking the database offline to perform backups is simply not an option, but using replication is not a backup solution. So, how do you backup your data with minimal impact to your production environment? Using the ZRM for MySQL in conjunction with your replication slave, the ZRM for MySQL can back up your environment with no impact to production.

Outline:

Introduction to Zmanda.
What is replication?
Replication is not a backup solution!
The ZRM is a backup solution!
Use ZRM to back up a replication server.
Talk about restoring to a master server.
Close.

When: Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

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The Essential MySQL Backup & Recovery Solution — ZRM 2.2 Overview

MySQL databases are increasingly used by high volume, high transaction applications that support businesses running full throttle 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Backup and recovery operations need to be conducted in such as way that is non-disruptive to users and applications. The latest release of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) 2.2 provides Continuous Data Protection (CDP) as well as instant point-in-time recovery for MySQL. In this webinar, we will demonstrate the latest ZRM enhancements so that you can use ZRM to build a robust, flexible, and easy to use backup and recovery solution.

When: Thursday May 29, 2008, 10:00am Pacific /1:00pm Eastern

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Best Practices for Enterprise Backup and Recovery

Backing up your enterprise data is not an option; it’s a necessity. To do it right it, we recommend that you backup your operating systems, documents, databases, and applications, too, so you can recover from an error or a disaster that wipes out your systems or disks. The problem is backup is difficult to do well given today’s complex data retention, time-to-recovery and heterogeneous system requirements. In this webinar, we will present our tips and recommendations to guide you in deploying backups that make sense for your business.
You’ll learn best practices in:

Securing Amanda backups for Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac
Protecting and ensuring the availability of the Amanda Backup Server
Using the information in Amanda Reports
Why Amanda Enterprise is a great fit for today’s small-medium enterprise and departmental backup requirements

When: Thursday May 15, 2008, 10:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern

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Radically Simple Backups (& Restores, too!)

Join Zmanda and Amazon for a unique introduction to Zmanda, the most popular open source backup & recovery solution. Optimized to simplify backup and recovery for complex, mixed IT environments including Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows systems, databases, and business applications, Zmanda efficiently protects your critical data and empowers IT professionals to defend against potential mishaps.

When: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:00am Pacific / 2pm Eastern

New Levels of Backup and Recovery for MySQL

Need a high-performance backup & recovery solution for MySQL? Zmanda has introduced a new version of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) which adds quite a few capabilities for MySQL users. Version 2.1 includes enhanced snapshot support that enables backup without application downtime or interruption to online data access. Version 2.1 also has global management of backups so that you can manage all your MySQL backup jobs from a single graphical console. You can also now run the entire ZRM solution on Solaris as well as on Linux. Join us for an overview and a live demo of ZRM 2.1.

When: Webinar Thursday, March 20, 2008 10am PST

Amanda Enterprise’s Amazon S3 Storage Option

Amanda Enterprise is a powerful, simple and easy to use Network Backup and Recovery software from Zmanda. Backup and Recovery experts from Zmanda will demonstrate live, how enterprise users can now use Amanda Enterprise to harness Amazon S3 for a complete Data Backup, Archiving and Disaster Recovery Solution.

When: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:00 am

Zmanda Open Source Backup/Recovery Solutions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Environments
Speakers:	Bill Mason, Director of Business Development, Zmanda Inc. Bret Hunter, Director of Business Development, Red Hat Exchange
Every IT manager understands the importance of backing up corporate data. E-commerce applications, online communication, and paperless office initiatives make the need for protecting data against loss from human or computer error a critical IT requirement. Regulatory compliance requirements further expand the need for a well defined and disciplined backup process. IT administrators are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of using open source software in their environments. In the case of backup and archiving software, the advantages of using open source software go beyond well understood benefits in other layers of the IT infrastructure. We will evaluate these benefits, as well as provide a brief technical overview of two leading open source backup projects: Amanda and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. Whether you are deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux or deploying RHEL certified applications, open source backup and recovery software should be a key element of your data protection strategy.
When: January 31, 2008 11am PT

Backing up your MySQL server over the internet using Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL

Join backup experts from Zmanda as they walk you through, step by step, on how to best protect your remote MySQL server over the Internet using Zmanda Recovery Manager [ZRM] for MySQL.

When: Thursday, January 25, of ‘07 at 10:30 am

Introduction to Amanda's new Perl interface

Dustin Mitchell, Amanda community developer will talk about Amanda’s new perl interface, how to use it and how it is used in the Amanda core.

When: Jan 17, 2008 10am PT

MySQL Backup Techniques for the Oracle DBA

Oracle DBAs who are planning on introducing MySQL in their environments must understand key backup and recovery considerations of MySQL database. In this webinar, you will hear from MySQL backup and recovery experts:

Various backup and recovery techniques for Oracle
Various backup and recovery techniques for MySQL
Compare and contrast above techniques
Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL - a flexible and full-featured MySQL backup and recovery solution from Zmanda.

When: December 13, 2007, 10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT, 18:00 GMT

Demonstration of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL with Zmanda Management Console

Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL is a robust, flexible, and easy to use full featured backup and recovery solution for MySQL databases. In this demonstration, backup and recovery experts from MySQL will provide an overview of ZRM for MySQL and a live demo of Zmanda Managment Console

Demonstration of Amanda Enterprise Edition with Zmanda Management Console

Amanda Enterprise Edition with Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) is a simple, easy to use and flexible network backup and recovery solution. In this demonstration backup and recovery experts from Zmanda will provide an overview of Amanda Enterprise Edition and a live demonstration of Zmanda Management Console.

Zmanda Management Console for MySQL Backup

Zmanda Recovery Manager [ZRM] for MySQL provides a simple and easy way to backup and recover MySQL clusters. Zmanda Engineers will provide an overview of ZRM for MySQL and demonstrate its ability to backup and restore MySQL cluster.

Backup and Recovery of MySQL Clusters

Backing up with Zmanda Management Console

This demo walks you through step by step on configuring and scheduling a backup using Zmanda Management Console {ZMC]. Additionally, it also shows how to perform an immediate backup and restore, using ZMC.

Backing up your MySQL server over the internet using Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL

Join backup experts from Zmanda as they walk you through, step by step, on how to best protect your remote MySQL server over the Internet using Zmanda Recovery Manager [ZRM] for MySQL.

MySQL Backup & Recovery for the Enterprise

Webinar: MySQL Backup & Recovery for the Enterprise

Do you value data in your MySQL production database? Did you ever wish you could go back in time and restore data just before you made an error? Do you want to make your life easier by using enterprise ready backup and recovery solution for MySQL? This presentation by Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of engineering and co-founder of Zmanda will give you the following insights:

Requirements for MySQL backup and recovery
Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL
How to chose between logical and raw backup of MySQL
Using LVM snapshots for backup
Point in time recovery
A demo of MySQL backup and recovery with ZRM for MySQL

Zmanda Recovery Manager [ZRM] for MySQL

Join Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering at Zmanda for a seminar on Zmanda Recovery Manager [ZRM] for MySQL - a flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server. Paddy will talk about choices and challenges while backing up a MySQL based environment and provide technical details along with a product roadmap.

Setting up Amanda Network Backup Server before the Pizza delivery

Join backup experts from Zmanda, as they walk you through configuring a backup server with heterogeneous clients using Amanda Enterprise Edition Network backup software. Zmanda engineers will show you how to install and configure your Amanda server and clients and will walk you through an actual backup and restore process. This webinar will provide system administrators the knowledge to operate the world's most popular open source backup and recovery software.

The Time is Right to Consider Open Source Backup

Join renowned open source expert Bernard Golden as he discusses why now is the time to seriously consider an open source backup solution. Mr. Golden will explore the need for backup solutions as well as limitations of current commercial offerings. He will also describe the compelling reasons that are causing many organizations to consider open source backup alternatives.

Amanda - Network backup & archiving software

Amanda is a popular open source network based backup and archiving software. Amanda uses native tools and can back up a large number of machines running various versions of Linux, Unix or Microsoft Windows operating systems. This talk will provide an overview of Amanda latest release (2.5) and future project roadmap.