Zmanda Named Among “Top 10 Storage Start-Ups”

Leading Provider of Open Source Backup and Recovery Solutions Cites Product Innovation, Cost-Effectiveness and Customer Successes as Keys to Earning a Spot on Prestigious List

Zmanda™, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that the editors of Byte and Switch have named the company one of the “Top 10 Start-ups to Watch.” The quarterly round-up report of the storage industry’s leading start-ups was released on July 15, 2008.

In the report, the editors of Byte and Switch wrote of Zmanda, “Data backup and recovery has become a highly competitive market. Zmanda is butting heads with well-established suppliers, such as EMC and Symantec, as well as smaller suppliers like Arkeia and BakBone. To date, Zmanda has fared well against the raft of competitors and anticipates that its open source approach will continue to be a popular choice in the future.”

“Being recognized as one of Byte and Switch’s Top 10 start-ups is a tremendous honor,” said Chander Kant, CEO and co-founder, Zmanda. “In the past year we have continued to expand and improve our suite of open source backup and recovery solutions and they are being embraced by SMBs and enterprise customers throughout the world. Recognition as one of Byte and Switch’s Top 10 Start-ups-to-Watch validates our strategy of providing robust, feature rich and cost-effective open source backup and recovery solutions to global customers.”

Byte and Switch was launched in June 2001 by Light Reading to address enterprise users’ need for clear, concise information about the exploding field of storage networking. Byte and Switch delivers the latest news and analysis of the technology, people, and partnerships that shape and transform the storage industry’s landscape. While daily news is the cornerstone of Byte and Switch, the site also offers insightful analysis.

Zmanda’s flagship product is Amanda Enterprise, an enhanced and supported version of the world’s most popular open source backup and recovery software. Amanda Enterprise allows users to easily and affordably backup, archive, and recover servers, workstations, desktops and business-critical applications across a network. The backup data and archives can be stored on disks, tape, optical devices or online storage services such as Amazon S3. Additionally, Amanda is the only backup and recovery solution certified by the Department of Homeland Security as being free of security defects.

For more information about Zmanda, please contact zsales {at} zmanda(.)com or 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 25 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data. Zmanda’s headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about Zmanda, please go to http://www.zmanda.com.

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