Feature Story

An open source ISV is creating an enormous impact on the backup and recovery software market. Zmanda, based in Sunnyvale, California, is the maker of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM), an open source solution that provides a simple, reliable, and comprehensive backup and recovery mechanism for MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.

With ZRM, MySQL database administrators (DBAs) can manage mission-critical, high-volume transaction processing environments with confidence. They can backup all MySQL servers running on Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS X, and they can take advantage of the Zmanda Management Console (ZMC), a set of graphical tools that control backup and recovery across all MySQL servers from a centralized Web console.

That's why Zmanda is among the most successful ISVs, with a growth rate that is nothing short of spectacular. This year the company's backup and recovery products are used in more than 500,000 active installations worldwide. The company now has customers in 45 countries, and its subscriber list includes up-and-coming Web 2.0 startups, SaaS providers, Fortune 500 enterprises, and everything in between.

ZRM: A Closer Look at the Capabilities

Zmanda Recovery Manager is a comprehensive, certified, mission-critical solution that brings hot backup and precision recovery capabilities to MySQL. ZRM allows you to:

• Centrally manage all backup and recovery operations for a single or multiple MySQL servers


• Perform hot backups of online MySQL databases via various snapshot technologies without any application downtime or interruption to online data access


• Perform backup that is the best match for your storage engine and your MySQL configuration


• Backup your remote MySQL database through a firewall


• Point-in-time recovery: recover your MySQL database easily to any point in time or to any particular transaction


• Visually parse MySQL binary logs for operational and security reasons, and easily identify recovery points


• Get e-mail notification about the status of your backups and receive MySQL backup reports via RSS feed

Open Source Software in the Enterprise Data Center

To be a viable option for mission-critical, enterprise-class deployment, open source software must be fully supported. And Zmanda is delivering on several fronts.

"We worked very closely with Sun's engineers to develop world class data protection solutions," said Mr. Kant. "Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL is closely integrated with ZFS for blazing fast backups of MySQL running on Solaris systems."

Mr. Kant encourages ISVs to work with the Sun Partner group: "The past year was a year of change, challenges and opportunities for the IT industry. Sun provided key guidance to Zmanda, and provided access to cutting edge hardware," he said. "This has helped us in achieving significant milestones bringing tremendous benefits to our joint customers."

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