Amanda Enterprise

In March, 2012 it was announced that the flagship product of Amanda Enterprise (AE) of Zmanda company allows to perform backup of business critical data of servers, PC and applications in corporate networks not only on disks, a tape or optical drives now, but also directly in a cloud service of Google Cloud Storage.

Software open source of the Californian developer can work in heterogeneous environments, including Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X. So far as it is about replication of data into remote storages, customers have an opportunity at the same time to create disaster-proof IT infrastructure.

Integration of Amanda Enterprise into Google Cloud Storage became possible thanks to the open program interface Google RESTful API. According to Martin Bur (Martin Buhr), the director of technology partnership in cloud infrastructure of Google, such combination represents a reliable and scalable solution of data backup for small and medium business.

The archives which are subject to backup remain in open formats, for example, of ZIP64 for Windows or tar for Linux. Data recovery happens via the Amanda Enterprise interface, at the same time to conduct object search, to browse them and it is possible to delete using Google Storage Manager.

Amanda Enterprise has a wide range of possibilities of backup of information, in particular, software supports functions of control of placement of data, tasks of bandwidth, multithreaded record and reading. All this along with openness of software, interfaces and file formats is designed to simplify solving of tasks of compliance to the approved politicians of information storage and security for business. Actually, for management of all environment to the system administrator of the sufficient one console.

For activation of the option Google Cloud Storage the developer asks 250-750 dollars over an annual subscription (depending on subscription option). This amount does not include payment of resources of the data warehouse which will be separately levied by Google. As an alternative it is possible to consider Amazon S3 Storage service – for its activation it is necessary to lay out the same 250-750 dollars a year.