Zmanda Adds Console

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today launched a new version of its Amanda Enterprise Edition, including pioneering new functionality that simplifies and accelerates the installation and management of Amanda backup and recovery software.

Amanda Enterprise Edition now comes with the Zmanda Management Console (ZMC), a new Web-based service that provides the first management and visualization tools for Amanda. ZMC offers rich and innovative installation, configuration, backup and reporting tools to greatly simplify the management of Amanda backups. Amanda Enterprise also includes a new Amanda rapid installer, which provides easy and automatic installation of a complete Amanda solution (Amanda server, Amanda client, all ZMC components) in minutes.

With ZMC and the Amanda rapid installer, mainstream users in the enterprise can easily benefit from the affordable, powerful open source Amanda Enterprise software for critical corporate data backup and recovery.

"Amanda Enterprise provides businesses with a proven, robust backup and recovery solution for a fraction of the cost of current proprietary technologies," said Chander Kant, CEO at Zmanda. "The storage market is one of many technology sectors that is being impacted by the disruptive forces of open source. The availability of the management and visualization tools in ZMC and the Amanda rapid installer will make it that much easier for organizations to meet their backup and recovery needs with affordable open source software."

Zmanda Inc.