… And Zetta.net

Zetta, Inc. announced  growth in 2012 as demand for its enterprise online server backup and DR solution escalates.

Its revenue and customer base grew over 100% in 2012, beating a CAGR forecast for IT cloud services of 26.4% , which is already five times that of the IT industry overall.

Some of the factors driving growth in cloud-based
and hybrid backup and recovery in particular,
and demand for Zetta.net’s solution, include:

• Increasing volumes of data that need protection
• Multiplying number of smaller files making traditional software backups slow and ineffective
• The decentralization of IT particularly among organizations with distributed offices, making appliance-based backup solutions expensive, difficult to deploy and extremely complex to manage

In addition, traditional software and appliance vendors struggle to deliver performance enterprise online backup since a cloud-centric architecture is required to achieve performance and security – something that would call for a complete rewrite for most vendors.

These factors are challenging traditional backup vendors who struggle with poor performance, missed backup windows and difficult to manage legacy solutions. Unlike vendors such as Symantec Corp., Zetta.net combines backup, snapshot and replication in a single solution to significantly expedite the backup process, shrinking total backup from a matter of hours to minutes.

The company integrates backup, snapshot and replication functionality, eradicating the need for a local appliance. Delivering an enterprise 3-in-1 backup, DR and archiving enables fast, reliable backup and recovery at a fraction of the cost of backup alone. Because the SaaS-based solution eliminates the cost and management complexities associated with appliance hardware, it is attractive to SMBs, enterprises with distributed office locations, and MSPs. Remote offices and MSPs are no longer required to purchase and manage multiple appliances across distributed locations, and any size business can  enjoy enterprise data protection at an affordable price.

Milestones demonstrating success
over the last year include:

• 2012 revenue of more than 133% over 2011
• More than doubling of the company’s customer base
• 2012 MSP and partner growth increasing 400% over 2011

"Zetta.net’s solution was designed for the cloud from day one, by a stellar engineering team from industry leaders such as Netscape, VeriSign, Symantec and Shutterfly. This offers tremendous advantages as the adoption of cloud technologies continues to rise," said Ali Jenab, CEO, Zetta.net. "As a result, we are seeing a large number of customers migrating from Symantec BackupExec and appliance-based backups to our cloud-centric enterprise-grade online backup and DR solution. With many organizations disillusioned by traditional tape-based backup, Zetta.net is very well positioned to capitalize on the movement toward next-generation cloud-enabled solutions."

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