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ZCloud storage cloud API for backup

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Zmanda, open source backup and recovery software has announced ZCloud, an open API, that will radically simplify the development of backup-to-cloud applications by providing a consistent and easy interface for storage cloud and backup software vendors.

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Zmanda is the sponsor of the ZCloud open source community project, and has also released an open source reference implementation of ZCloud.

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By enabling this API, a storage cloud immediately becomes a potential destination of ever-growing eco-system of backup-to-cloud applications, including Amanda, open source backup project.

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“Backup-to-Cloud is a key application of storage clouds. Mezeo is enabling a growing eco-system of applications to be compatible with our cloud storage platform,” said Steve Lesem, president and CEO, Mezeo Software, a cloud storage platform provider.

“We are excited about the ZCloud API, as it will help us to easily integrate backup software applications with our cloud without requiring cloud storage service provider developers to understand the specifics of any particular backup software.”

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As more and more businesses discover the flexibility and ease of using storage clouds for their secondary and tertiary storage, backup-to-cloud has become a must-have feature for all backup software. By supporting ZCloud API, a backup software vendor can immediately use a growing choice of storage clouds, including Amazon S3, as well as private storage clouds as a destination of its backup archives.

“Storage clouds represent a radical shift in secondary and tertiary storage. With increasing Internet bandwidth and economies of scale of storage cloud vendors, IT managers will realize dramatic cost and complexity reduction for their off-site backup needs,” said Chander Kant, chief executive officer, Zmanda.

“By normalizing the idiosyncrasies of specific clouds, ZCloud enables a vibrant ecosystem needed to serve this growing demand,” added Kant.

 

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