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Amanda Enterprise: An Introduction

This paper provides a technical overview of Amanda Enterprise. It describes design and operations of Amanda Enterprise and how it is unique in its ease of use, flexibility and scalability. As organizations of all sizes become increasingly dependent upon their data, centralized protection and recovery of distributed data across all...

Tags: Zmanda, Amanda Enterprise Software, Backups

White papers 2008-08-08

Additional Resources

Top Considerations for Implementing Secure Backup and Recovery

In the last few years there have been many headlines about high-profile incidents of lost or stolen backup tapes. Despite increasing attention to security, backup procedures are often neglected in overall security policies. The main reason for that discrepancy is that, historically, backup and security have had almost opposite goals....

Tags: Security, Recovery, Zmanda, Backups

White papers 2008-12-10

Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software

Explosive data growth, combined with demanding requirements for data availability, has placed a tremendous burden on IT operations staff at businesses of all sizes. Yet, many organizations do not have the staff or budget to purchase and manage complex and expensive backup and recovery software products. The Sun Storage J4400...

Tags: Software, Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Disk Storage, Backups, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-01

Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software

Explosive data growth, combined with demanding requirements for data availability, has placed a tremendous burden on IT operations staff at businesses of all sizes. Yet, many organizations do not have the staff or budget to purchase and manage complex and expensive backup and recovery software products. The Sun Fire X4540...

Tags: Software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Backup Server, Sun Fire, Backups, Servers, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-01

Mulling the impact of new Reg FD guidance

Mulling the impact of new Reg FD guidanceThe press release isn't dead, it's evolvingIt's just one ruling, albeit one that caused people to sit up and listen because the SEC is not usually thought of as progressive or flexible. The bad news for the "death of the press release" kids...

Tags: Blogging, new Reg FD guidance, Reg FD guidance, Reg FD

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video

Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Online Video, Video, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

LAMP lights the way in open-source security

LAMP lights the way in open-source securityGuess Uncle Bitty's gotta go back to the drawing tableShucks Bitmeister, when will your shilling finally STICK?.. ;-)Less than 1 bug per 1,000 lines...that's really saying something about open source. I'd like to see a similar security analysis of MS' IIS and .NET and...

Tags: open source, Amanda, Coverity, open-source security

Discussion threads 2006-03-06

BitRock Case Study: Zmanda

Zmanda is the leader in open source backup and recovery products. Its Amanda Enterprise Edition is the certified, tested and fully supported version of the world's most popular open source backup and recovery software, Amanda. The company wanted to present the fastest, most professional installation process possible. Amanda requires Apache,...

Tags: Perl, PHP, BitRock, Zmanda, Amanda Enterprise Edition, Scripting Languages, Open Source, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development

Case studies

Performing Centralized Concurrent Backups With Amanda

There are a number of enterprise tape backup solutions, such as Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software, VERITAS NetBackup, and LEGATO NetWorker, geared toward larger corporations. Many sites, especially smaller ones, don't wish to pay the license fees that some of these solutions command. For those smaller sites that want something...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Tape Backup, Amanda, Backups, Sun Solaris, Storage Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware

White papers