Zmanda to Present at OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2008.Zmanda Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering, Paddy Sreenivasan, to Discuss Open Source Backup and Recovery With OpenSolaris Storage Summit Attendees. SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Zmanda[TM], the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that Paddy Sreenivasan, co-founder and vice president of engineering will deliver a community session entitled, "Open Source 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. Amanda for OpenSolaris," at the OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2008 to be held on Sunday, September 21, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. Sreenivasan's session will be delivered at 11:30 a.m. local time and will discuss how Zmanda's leading open source backup and recovery software combines with OpenSolaris, ZFS (1) (Zettabyte File System) A distributed file system from Sun that was added to OpenSolaris in 2005 and Solaris 10 in 2006. With support for 128 bits, compared to 64 for NTFS and other contemporary file systems, storage capacity is unlimited for all practical and Sun's Storage Servers to create the most cost-effective and easy-to-use backup solution in the industry. The Inaugural OpenSolaris Storage Summit is a one-day storage community meeting hosted by Sun Microsystems immediately preceding the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) Storage Developer Conference. The event is targeted at storage developers and engineers and provides discussion and feedback on the powerful OpenSolaris development platform. Attendees will share experiences, discuss new technologies and have the opportunity to meet the minds behind OpenSolaris. The fourth annual SNIA Storage Developer Conference is being held September 22-25, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. The event is expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers and provide information and know-how to further advance solutions with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase acceptability and interoperability in production environments, and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects 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 worldwide. OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the company's Solaris operating system. It is aimed at developers, system administrators and users who want to develop and improve operating systems. There are currently 70 user groups and more than 100,000 community members registered on OpenSolaris.org. 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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