Amanda Wins InfoWorld's BOSSIE Award for Best Network Backup Software.Innovative Community Backup and Recovery Solution Lauded as "Best Open Source Software" by InfoWorld SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Zmanda[TM], the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that InfoWorld has recognized Amanda as the "Best Open Source Software" in the storage category. InfoWorld's annual awards, known within the IT industry as the BOSSIES (Best of Open Source Software Awards), recognize the best free and open source software See free software and open source. the world has to offer to businesses and IT professionals. "Kudos to Amanda for a well deserved award! We've used Amanda backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. here at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes since the early 1990's and are very happy with it," said Pete James, manager of computing resources, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UCSD. "Each time we've had to recover deleted files or recover a crashed system we've been successful with Amanda. We've seen many changes in operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and hardware and Amanda has evolved along with them, even the transition from tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. to using disk backup a couple of years ago went smoothly." Amanda has been chosen as the best open source network backup software for its extensive support of heterogeneous platforms, layered security and its exclusive use of open data formats. Amanda is the world's most popular open source backup and archiving software, protecting more than half a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. , Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Amanda Project is a Zmanda sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration. Amanda allows system administrators to set up a single backup server to back up hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system. Amanda uses native data extraction and archival facilities and can centrally back up a large number of workstations and servers running various versions of Linux, Unix or Microsoft Windows operating systems. "Recognition of Amanda by InfoWorld is a validation of the increased adoption and applicability of open source backup in enterprise IT," said Ann Ruckstuhl, vice president of marketing, Zmanda. "The thriving Amanda community continues to provide IT professionals with scalable and innovative open source backup and recovery options that replace expensive and un-necessarily complex proprietary backup solutions. Customers are clearly seeking open source alternatives, whether through the free community version or the supported commercial enterprise version. Either way, Amanda is a win-win for customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. easy-to-use, secure and low-cost network backup alternatives." About Zmanda Zmanda is the global leader in open source enterprise backup and recovery. The company's solutions -- Amanda Enterprise and 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. See also Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver External link
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