Zmanda updates recovery product

Zmanda, an open source backup and recovery software company, introduced a major upgrade of its flagship product Amanda Enterprise Version 3.0, reports The Earth Times.

The company's backup and recovery product now offers high-end features and functions for protecting modern data centres, including disaster recovery to the cloud and enterprise-level media, and device management.

“Zmanda is challenging the way backup products and services are being delivered by offering more choice and flexibility - a refreshing proposition for users who don't want to lock up data in proprietary formats or proprietary clouds,” said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

Business continuity software provider Neverfail and Richard Fleischman Associates (RFA), a provider of outsourced technology and IT services, have teamed up to deliver remote disaster recovery and continuous availability services to more than 150 fund managers, writes PR Newswire.

RFA's virtualised data centre provides disaster recovery and business continuity services, both on-site and remotely. This model essentially uses 'cloud-like' services to provide disaster recovery to RFA's data centre, removing the necessity for its clients to operate dedicated off-site back-up facilities.

"Moving critical services like disaster recovery into the 'cloud' offers enormous cost and technology benefits," said James Baker, storage software research manager at IDC.

Prodigy Networx will provide the Remote Backup Service (RBS) developed by Consonus Technologies (CTI) to their various clients, states Carolina Newswire.

The alliance is an outgrowth of Consonus' channel partner strategy to make its investment in data centres and its high service levels available to the channel for the first time. Under the Prodigy Networx alliance, CTI and Prodigy are providing RBS to a wide variety of clients, large and small, to help them improve operational efficiency, increase profitability and satisfy regulatory requirements.

Consonus CEO Mike Shook says: “Traditional backup solutions can be difficult and costly to operate. With RBS, customers receive an efficient way to recover mission-critical data on demand through an enterprise-class solution without the added headcount and capital investment.”