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Open Source for America to Advocate Broader Support, Participation

Sun is one of more than 70 organizations and individuals that have joined together to form a new coalition called Open Source for America that will promote the use of free and open source software to the U.S. Federal Government. Gartner recently estimated by 2011 more than 25 percent of government vertical, domain-specific applications will either be open source, contain open source application components or be developed as community source.

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A BigAdmin feature article demonstrates how Amanda Enterprise takes advantage of Solaris ZFS snapshot technology to improve overall backup performance. Caryl Takvorian describes the deployment of Amanda Enterprise 3.0 from Zmanda on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS on a Sun Fire X4500 system using ZFS file systems.

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Video: MySQL Backup to Sun Cloud and Multi-Cloud Management Platforms

Chander Kant, CEO Zmanda demonstrated at the CommunityOne Event in New York how to backup a MySQL database to Sun’s Clouds, using Zmanda ZRM via WebDAV API for integration. Watch the Kant demo for a visual overview on how to perform a typical backup and learn the three main benefits of multi-cloud management platforms from Sun’s Cloud Partner, Rightscale’s CEO Michael Crandell.

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New version 2.1 of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL now offers native support for the Solaris 10 Operating System and includes a comprehensive plug-in architecture for snapshot technologies like Linux LVM, Windows VSS snapshot, Network Appliance SnapManager, Veritas VxFS and Solaris ZFS, enabling MySQL database administrators to backup production environments without application downtime or interruption to online data access.

ZRM 2.1 offers enhanced unified global backup management capabilities specifically designed for geographically dispersed MySQL databases. Customers can more effectively backup multiple MySQL databases spread throughout their enterprise from a single backup server, controlled by the intuitive Zmanda Management Console.

ZRM for MySQL is an open source enterprise-class backup and recovery software designed specifically for MySQL databases and includes unique, enterprise-grade features such as MySQL storage engine intelligence and granular point-in-time recovery.

More information and the free download for ZRM for MySQL version 2.1 is available from the Zmanda Website