Zmanda Focuses Cloud Backup towards SMBs and Asian Enterprises

Zmanda has boosted its open-source Zmanda Cloud Backup 3.0 product to make it more engaging to firms with a presence in the East. The most recent version is especially reserved for SMBs, as well as for departments of bigger companies. Additionally, the most recent version of the software has been optimised to back up Microsoft Exchange better. New features include backup support for Far East, while prior versions provided backup support for the U.S.
And Europe. This is crucial not only for Asian users, but also for accident recovery purposes, where users might wish to back up data in a land like Singapore, that has stable geography and is well-connected. Accordingly, the software supports global personality sets, meaning file names can be in languages like Japanese and Korean.
The software has been optimised for Microsoft Exchange, as it and Microsoft SQL Server are the commonest applications users back up. Optimization features include the capability to recover Microsoft Exchange to a recovery database, where users can select messages and mailboxes to recover. Formerly, users would've had to recover the whole backup ready. Zmanda is taking a look at supporting similar table-level backup and recovery for SQL Server in addition to optimisation for applications like Oracle and Microsoft Sharepoint. Users can also select how much bandwidth Zmanda uses to back up while they are doing other work.
Zmanda has the best mixture of scalability, reporting, insight and traditional data center backup, says Martin Dunsby, CEO of Hybridge IT Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif., IT department for small businesses. Because lots of of his clients are in private equity finance and do plenty of work in the East, Dunsby is keen on the features which make it simpler to use, eg support for Asian-character file names.
He also asserts he is keen on the new capability to pick where the backup goes, because for global clients, it is important to grasp when finance data crosses country boundaries. That feature is helpful for disaster recovery, especially since he's in California. "Knowing where the data is and making sure it's not in California is a very important feature," Dunsby says. "If you're doing it for disaster recovery, having it ten miles down the street isn't going to help."
The software is available now for a rate of $0.15/GB./month regardless of which continent you are on. This is a reduction from the prior cost of $0.20 / GB / month in the U.S. and $0.25/GB/month in Europe. In addition, there's a set-up price of $4.95 per account.