Amanda Enterprise is a business-ready version of the popular Amanda open source backup and recovery software, developed by Zmanda™, the leader in open source backup and data protection. The new solution has enhanced commercial-grade functionality to guard important corporate data throughout an enterprise. Amanda Enterprise now features a new Zmanda Client for Microsoft Windows, major security upgrades and 24 x 7 technical support -- all in an easy-to-use, affordable open source solution.

    Chander Kant, Zmanda CEO, stated: "Amanda Enterprise has always delivered robust network backup functionality for a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions, and it is now ready for widespread enterprise deployment. With an even higher level of enterprise-grade functionality, businesses can deploy Amanda with complete confidence that it will safely protect data throughout an organization and is fully supported by Zmanda."

    In addition, David Hill, founder of market analysis firm Mesabi Group, said: "Zmanda has taken the popular open source Amanda backup software and made it a safe and smart choice for any organization. With Amanda Enterprise, businesses can avoid the high prices, product complexity and vendor lock-in that are all too common in the storage industry."

    Amanda Enterprise is a business-ready version of the popular Amanda open source backup and recovery software. Initially developed in 1991, Amanda has been battle-tested and proven by the open source community for well over a decade and is estimated to protect more than 500,000 systems around the world. Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise solution adds the enterprise features, technical support and accountability to make Amanda a cost-effective, powerful solution for protecting critical corporate data.

Among the features we can find:

 - Zmanda client for Microsoft Windows, which provides full support for Windows file systems, including support of Access Control Lists (ACLs) and extended file attributes. Zmanda Client for MS Windows offers new backup flexibility.

 - Enhanced to provide a high level of security to protect an enterprise's critical corporate data.

 - 24x7 technical support, giving enterprises the level of service required for business-critical backup and data protection.

    The company was founded in 2005 to offers the benefits of open source software to the critical operational task of data protection through backup and recovery. The company's flagship offering is the Zmanda Network, a suite of software and services for enterprise data backup and recovery. Zmanda Network offers a network backup solution based on Amanda, the world's most popular open source data backup and recovery technology, as well as an application-specific backup solution, ZRM for MySQL. Zmanda's corporate leadership includes technology veterans with broad experience in enterprise storage and open source software.

For more information about Zmanda, please go to http://www.zmanda.com.