Zmanda V4.0 Enterprise Backup and DR Solution

Zmanda, a trademark of Betsol, Inc., announced a software release of Enterprise Backup solution (AE) to protect physical servers, VMs, applications, databases, and cloud.

In this release, the company has made security, reliability, and ease of use its key focus areas.

The V.4.0 is a reliable, feature enterprise backup and DR solution that is designed to enable IT teams to manage all backup policies that cover both their on-premise and cloud environments with a single dashboard.

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What is included in this release?

• Amanda Enterprise (AE) servers cluster: Centralized management for clustered environments for multiple backup servers (on-premise and cloud).

• Data de-dupe: Reduce storage costs and backup sizes with data de-duplication.

• AWS Glacier: Support for long term storage using AWS Glacier reducing storage costs.

• Centralized license management: Deploy licenses to all AE servers (multi-location) from the Zmanda Management Console (ZMC).

• Custom roles: Advanced role-based access control administration capabilities to support multiple groups.

• VMWare API upgrade: Support for VMware 6.7.

• ZMC dashboard: Overview of backup sets, AE health checkups, event messages, AE cluster disk details and more. Details refer the overview section in 4.0 documentation.

• Enhanced user experience: V.4.0 comes with brand new user experience. For more details refer the 4.0 documentation.

• Security: TLS 1.2 support for encrypted network communications

• Google Cloud: Added support for ‘Durable Reduced Availability’ for long-term storage and reduced cost.

• Sources – Activate/deactivate: Sources/DLEs can be activated and deactivated directly from the sources page.

• Schedule plan: Schedule plan options to create schedules and link them to any backup sets. Monthly and weekly options have been reimagined.

This release also extends support to newer versions of OSs. IT teams will be able to implement the company’s solution in hybrid environments (cloud and on-premises) with new options and Amanda Enterprise cluster support.

“Zmanda 4.0 allows our customers to reduce their storage costs with best-in-class de-dupe.” said Pavan Raj, director.

For many IT teams, enterprise backup has become a labor-intensive and expensive necessity. With ever-changing storage trends, teams need one solution that can keep up with both legacy and cloud storage.

Resources:
Blog: Zmanda 4.0: The Ultimate Backup Experience    
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