Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 and Cloud backup software

Backup software

Backup software are computer programs used to perform backup; they create supplementary exact copies of files, databases or entire computers. These programs may later use the supplementary copies to restore the original contents in the event of data loss....

 company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Sunnyvale, California

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. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.

Open Source Projects

Zmanda develops and maintains the popular open source backup tools AMANDA and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL

Zmanda Recovery Manager

Zmanda Recovery Manager is a perl-based utility used to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases. It is released under the GNU General Public License....

. It was named one of MySQL Partners Of The Year in the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 event. Zmanda also is the main sponsor of the open source ZCloud API which aims to enable any backup software vendor to seamlessly integrate its software with different public and private storage clouds

Business Model

Like many open source firms, Zmanda generates revenue by selling products built on the open source codebase as well as by providing services and support to those customers who buy these products . Zmanda offers an annual subscription fee model similar to those pioneered by open source leaders Red Hat

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....

 and MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

.

Zmanda also sells a closed source backup product - Zmanda Cloud Backup

Zmanda Cloud Backup

Zmanda Cloud Backup is an online backup software by open source backup company Zmanda which enables users to back up their data to cloud storage...

 which is an online backup tool

Remote backup service

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See also

• Amanda Enterprise Edition
• Zmanda Recovery Manager
  Zmanda Recovery Manager
  Zmanda Recovery Manager is a perl-based utility used to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases. It is released under the GNU General Public License....
  
  
• Zmanda Cloud Backup
  Zmanda Cloud Backup
  Zmanda Cloud Backup is an online backup software by open source backup company Zmanda which enables users to back up their data to cloud storage...
  
  
• List of online backup services