Chander Kant is Founder and CEO of Zmanda, a provider of Open Source backup solutions that exploit the capabilities of Cloud storage services (such as Amazon’s S3) to supplement the traditional on-premise backup practices of their business customers.
I spoke with Chander recently to learn more about the company, and to understand the particular issues associated with moving backup data to the Cloud.
In addition to leveraging Cloud storage as part of a rounded backup strategy for on-premise data, we also discussed Zmanda’s approach to providing useful backups of data already stored in the Cloud.
Our 32 minute conversation has now been released as a podcast.
I do wish you guys gave a play by play transcript of this. I don’t have 30 minutes to listen, but I have a couple minutes to scan through to see if I should spare 30 later.
The topic interests me because I took some time configuring my servers backup to the cloud. Although now that it is running I am set, I wanted to see if Zmanda takes care of the difficulties my team had in setting such a backup up.
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thanks for the comment… Getting these podcasts transcribed would introduce additional costs – probably getting on for $100 per show – and skimming the transcribed text of a 30-60 minute conversation isn’t always as easy as it might seem.
Of course if there were sufficient interest in transcription or a funding stream to get it done, then it would certainly be something to look at doing.
Cloud storage is the future, but before the industry will accept it, many of the problems in integrating it into existing IT architecture must be overcome.