Zetta.net Vice President of Engineering Will Discuss the Benefits of Next-Generation Server Backup and Disaster Recovery at EDUCAUSE 2012

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Zetta.net today announced that Vice President of Engineering Lou Montulli will deliver a presentation on November 8 at the EDUCAUSE 2012 conference in Denver, Colorado. Titled Next-Generation Backup: Simpler and Cheaper, with Disaster Recovery Capability, Montulli will discuss how higher education IT professionals can...
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The 10 Critical Elements of Server Backup Technology

Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNM092712 - Local and off-site Backup Combination. It's a best practice to have a combination of local and off-site backup. Typically you want to keep large files, like databases and system state file backups on-site. This enables a quick recovery of the latest version of these files and reduces downtime. It's the most practical if your available bandwidth limits how fast you...
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College Uses Zetta.net Integrated Backup, Disaster Recovery and Archiving to Protect Critical Server Data and Enable Data Access in Minutes vs. Days


VNM90712 - SUNNYVALE, Calif. – September 6, 2012 – Zetta.net, a provider of 3-in-1 online server backup solutions, today announced that Merced College has selected Zetta.net for critical server backup and disaster recovery. The community college has deployed Zetta.net DataProtect to speed data recovery when required while...
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Zetta.net’s 3-in-1 Online Server Backup Solution Recognized as a “Best New Product” in the SaaS and Cloud Computing Category

VNM82912 –SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 29, 2012 – Zetta.net, a provider of 3-in-1 online server backup solutions, today announced that its appliance-free Zetta DataProtect online server backup and disaster recovery solution has been recognized as a finalist in the 2012 Golden Bridge Awards program. Zetta DataProtect 3.0 received finalist recognition in...
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Zetta Offers Reliable Offsite Backup During a Disaster

by Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

When the local news starts reporting that a tropical storm or hurricane will make landfall near your town, do you know how to protect your company’s IT assets?

If you do, congrats! This post isn’t for you.

If not, here are some suggestions.

A Weather Warning Is When You Implement The Plan, Not Start It

A hurricane — or...
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Zetta Shines the Light on Alternatives in the World of Backup - bit.ly/OKVQIn

Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNMZE7512 – Symantec’s Backup Exec 2012, released in February of this year, is causing a lot of frustration in the IT community and a lot of backup admins want to go back to the previous version.

Assuming, of course, they don’t look elsewhere for a backup solution.
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Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNME7312 – The famously neutral storage experts at Storage Switzerland wrote an article recently that asks the question, “Does Cloud Backup Need An Appliance?”

The article explains that getting data offsite is a requirement to meet compliance directives or SLAs for many companies, and cloud backup is an increasingly viable option.

While the conventional appliance-based approach to cloud backup may be...
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Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNMZE62112 – Preparing for a data disaster is one of those projects that are always getting pushed back in small and medium sized businesses. The daily proverbial “fires” seem to take precedence over getting ready for an actual fire, server crash, earthquake, theft, or hurricane.

Implementing a disaster recovery strategy is critical, but is often delayed for 2 reasons:

• The complexity of evaluating business...
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Cloud News Roundup from Zetta.net

Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNMZE61412 – Hot news about a hot space like cloud storage puts this news high in the running for hottest worldwide. These are the most interesting articles this week about backup, disaster recovery, SMBs, cloud, or some combination of those 4.

We’re looking forward to providing these news roundups every week – let us know in the comments how to make it more valuable to you....
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Zetta Offers a Backup Solution That’s Synonymous With DR

Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNMZE6712 – Because companies depend on their IT infrastructure, they can’t wait hours or days for access to files from an offsite backup following a data disaster. This is especially true when the definition of a data disaster can be a pinky finger that accidentally deleted a client document, a server crash, or tornado that takes down a whole data center.
 

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Zetta DataProtect Gives Customers Enterprise-Grade Data Protection with Automated Backup and Instant Recovery Anytime, Anywhere via a Web Browser

VNMZE52912 – SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Zetta.net, a provider of enterprise-grade online backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that InfoStor has named it as one of “6 Great Cloud and Online Backup Solutions.” InfoStor technology expert Drew Robb selected the companies included in the list based on research and market...
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By Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

VNMZE52512 — Each of the prospective SME IT customers that we talk to everyday has a unique environment, a unique set of data protection challenges, and operates within a unique business context. During these conversations, after we get past the initial questions about bandwidth (5-10Mbps at the least) and data size (1TB or more), the discussion moves toward finding the optimum way to do server backup in their unique context.

This is...
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VNMZE52312 – SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Zetta.net, a provider of enterprise-grade online backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the appointment of technology sales industry veteran, Jill Cooper, as vice president of sales. The addition of Cooper to the Zetta.net management team was a direct response to the dramatic growth the company has seen as it delivers a “no appliance” solution with enterprise-class features for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

“We continue...
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Zetta Efficiently Transfers Large Amounts of Data Over the Internet

Author:
Nick Mueller, Zetta.net

It was at Netscape, in the early days of the internet, when co-founders Lou Montulli and Jeff Whitehead first worked together and began to notice how the amount of their data was constantly growing, but the process for adding storage and protecting that data wasn’t improving over time.

“Zetta is a company that’s trying to revolutionize...
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Zetta.net, a provider of enterprise-grade online backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the results of a Storage Switzerland lab review that validates Zetta DataProtect as the next generation enterprise-grade server backup solution for small and medium sized enterprises that doesn’t require appliances and can be deployed within minutes.


The Storage Switzerland video review demonstrates the ease in which Zetta DataProtect was deployed and configured....
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Author:
Nick Mueller, Zetta.net


Larry Steinke of St. Francis High School needed a simple, low-maintenance data backup solution, so he could focus on other pressing IT needs at the school. With over 1700 students and 100 faculty members at the school, Steinke has a lot of data to manage. On a daily basis, the IT team at St. Francis deals with email, directory, and web services as well as cross-platform support and databases full of teacher and student files.Read More...