2nd Gen of Zetta.net Hybrid Cloud Backup Outperforms Appliance-Based Solutions

Zetta.net announced that a report by analyst firm Storage Strategies Now
highlights Zetta.net’s second generation hybrid cloud backup solution,
acknowledging that it outperforms, and eliminates the disadvantages of,
appliance-based data protection systems.

According to the report, appliance-based systems add extra hardware
costs, present a single choke and failure point, and induce
complications for distributed offices, particularly for managed service
providers supporting hundreds of customers.

The report asserts that Zetta.net’s recent addition of Lean Local Copy makes "an excellent trade-off"
against hardware appliances, and enables local backup and recovery
without resorting to additional hardware boxes which add complexity and
drag time to recovery.

The interaction of Zetta.net software directly with its Smart Cloud "provides significant increases in the speed of offsite backups and DR,"
with much less to manage – which can be particularly important in
distributed environments and locations operated by a managed service
provider.

Storage Strategies Now also recognized the combined backup, snapshot and replication capabilities built into the solution.

Organizations that historically had to implement a different product for
each of these functions, can rely on the highly intelligent Zetta.net
cloud service. Companies benefit from a range of functionality that
would only be achieved otherwise by investing in disparate products for
local, offsite, archiving and disaster recovery.

"Zetta.net has taken a particularly clever approach to eliminating the need for a local appliance," said James Bagley, senior analyst, Storage Strategies Now. "Lean
Local Copy together with Smart Cloud provides an integrated on-premise
and offsite server backup and rapid recovery solution that makes
Zetta.net a logical choice for organizations of all sizes."

"We’re exceptionally pleased with the response we’ve received to our second generation hybrid cloud backup solution," said Gary Sevounts, VP of marketing, Zetta.net. "Customers,
partners and industry analysts such as Storage Strategies Now have
expressed enthusiasm for its ability to dramatically reduce the cost and
management complexities associated with appliance-based backup systems.
Once companies experience the ease of use, rapid recovery and cost
benefits we deliver, there is simply no going back to the appliance dark
ages."

To read the Storage Strategies Now Delta Report