Comments on: Zmanda Open Source: Backup At One-Tenth the Price?

By: MarianneXX

MarianneXX — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:31:16 +0000

What you write here is wuite interesting.I’ll check your posts more often. Great post. I wish I could write in that interesting way.
Tapety na pulpit

By: Steve F.

Steve F. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:28:16 +0000

I offer online backup as a part of our managed service offering using an Amazon S3 backup product, SecoBackup. We looked at Zmanda, and went with SecoBackup in the end for their private label reseller edition. Here’s their web page –

http://secobackup.com/partner.html

SecoBackup does not charge for software (for clients or for central admin console), only for use of the amazon S3 service, so it made it doubly easy for us to launch our backup service using it – without any initial investment into software or hardware.

/Steve

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:26:38 +0000

Tristan: Other than spending too much time testing Web site widgets and open source code for his personal laptop, The VAR Guy doesn’t really do product reviews or vendor product tests. Alas, our resident blogger’s head is filled with lots of topics to write about — but testing products isn’t one of this strengths.

By: Tristan Rhodes

Tristan Rhodes — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:17:46 +0000

I have been watching this story for the past 2 years. The Zmanda products looks promising, and there are quite a few success stories on their website. Perhaps now would be a good time to evaluate their product. Has the VAR Guy done this?

I think the link to Amazon S3 is a terrific idea, and one that allows simpler managed services. It is also a great way for businesses to gain off-site backups without effort and high cost.