ZMANDA CEO, CHANDER KANT, TO SPEAK AT SNW
Oct 10th, 22:17 UTC
Industry thought leader to discuss the future of backup
and recovery to the storage cloud
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD - DALLAS, Texas - October 9, 2008 -- ZmandaTM, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that the company's chief executive officer, Chander Kant, will participate on a panel entitled "Practical Considerations - Enterprise Backup to the Storage Cloud" at Storage Networking World Fall 2008. The conference will be held in Dallas at The Gaylord Texan, October 13 - 16, 2008. The panel presentation will be delivered on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 3:45pm local time in the Texas Salon 4 conference room as part of the Cloud/Storage-as-a-Service track.
Storage Networking World is the world's largest and foremost storage networking event. The conference offers attendees more than 140 educational sessions and the conference's extensive agenda makes it the most appealing and well-respected assembly of storage networking professionals in the world.
Eric Burgener, a senior analyst and consultant with the Taneja Group, will moderate the discussion between Mr. Kant and Ynema Mangum, a cloud computing product line manager at Sun Microsystems. The panelists will discuss practical considerations when choosing the storage cloud for enterprise backup storage and disaster recovery including: performance, security, manageability, recovery time objective, recovery point objective, service level requirements, regulatory compliance as well as financial considerations. Additionally, the panel will share lessons learned from past deployments and their recommendations on the best way to leverage the storage cloud as the backup storage media. After attending this session, attendees will be able to:
* Determine the benefits of storage cloud versus traditional onsite and offsite media options;
* Gain knowledge of the do's and don'ts associated with backing up to the storage cloud;
* More effectively leverage the storage cloud for enterprise backup & recovery.
For more information about SNW Fall 2008 please visit www.snwusa.com and for more information about Zmanda, please visit www.zmanda.com.
About Zmanda
Zmanda is the global leader in open source enterprise backup and recovery. The company's solutions -- Amanda Enterprise and Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL -- are designed to make it radically simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT environment. Amanda Enterprise is an enterprise-grade network backup solution based on Amanda, the world's most popular open source data backup and recovery software with more than half a million active installations worldwide. ZRM for MySQL is the first mission-critical backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. Today, businesses in more than 35 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data. Zmanda's headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about Zmanda, please go to www.zmanda.com.
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(Submitted by Diane MIller of Barrett Marketing)
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