Zetta Systems Launches Zetta Server 2.8 for Instant Disaster Recovery

Zetta Systems announces the launch of Zetta Server 2.8. Zetta Systems is a leading software company building secure, enterprise storage solutions for instant disaster recovery and centralized network storage. Zetta Server 2.8 creates custom storage appliances that support unlimited and instantaneous point-in-time copies of a company's data with negligible disk overhead.

Zetta Systems Launches Zetta Server 2.8 for Instant Disaster Recovery

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) September 3rd, 2003 -- Zetta Systems announces the launch of Zetta Server 2.8. Zetta Systems is a leading software company building secure, enterprise storage solutions for instant disaster recovery and centralized network storage. Zetta Server 2.8 creates custom storage appliances that support unlimited and instantaneous point-in-time copies of a company's data with negligible disk overhead. Zetta Server's unique, patent-pending, snapshot technology lets you take snapshots every minute for the most advanced data protection in the marketplace.

Additional security in Zetta Server's architecture provides protection from Internet worms. Unlike general-purpose operating systems, Zetta Server's architecture prevents the execution of worms, thus providing secured storage and saving valuable restore time.

Zetta Server features include:

-ZSnap- Instantaneous, lightweight and unlimited snapshots or point-in-time copies to recover from user, application, and administrator errors. ZSnap also features the ability to exclude non-critical data from snapshots.
-Support for ATA, SATA, SCSI, and Fiber Channel disk arrays.
-Support for Windows, UNIX, and Mac OSX clients.
-Integration with Active Directory and NT4 domains.
-Integration with NIS.
-Support for Advanced Security including ACLs.
-SNMP Monitoring.
-Advanced Volume Manager with the ability to configure multiple different RAID volumes.
-Intuitive, full-featured web interface.
-SSH Interface for command line access.
-ZDitto- Ability to create replicated copies of data for offsite data protection.
-High availability features such as Ethernet Failover.

Zetta Server can be downloaded from the Internet at http://www.zettasystems.com and installed in less than 7 minutes on a wide range of hardware. An in-depth whitepaper on Zetta Systems Solutions is also available at http://www.zettasystems.com/armstrong/library/features.jsp.

"We are amazed by Zetta Server's ease of use and world class technology. Zetta Server had no issues with our grueling tests with millions of files. Our company saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by using Zetta Server for our disaster recovery solutions and what took us 56 hours of back up time now takes 26 minutes. In today's market you have to save your company money and the best way to do this is to utilize the very best technology in the marketplace. Zetta Systems delivered on their promises, and to my surprise they were very affordable,"said Jon Campell, Director of IT at Western Wats, a leading call center headquartered in Utah.

"We believe that customers should have the flexibility of choosing the hardware that best fits their needs instead of being locked into proprietary hardware solutions. Zetta Server allows system integrators to create custom storage solutions for the department and the enterprise; and as the former CTO for MusicNet and several other large organizations with data storage challenges, Zetta Server was designed from a real-world users point of view. Our entry-level server for the SMB marketplace using Windows is configured with twice the number of snapshots supported by Windows-powered NAS appliances, and costs as little as $500 per server license.

Our Enterprise-Level servers with support for UNIX and Windows start at $5,000 per server license, and in their base configuration have twice the number of snapshots supported by NetApp. Over 200 companies have downloaded Zetta Server in the last few months and many have become customers including Western Wats, University of Wisconsin and National Semiconductor. I am very pleased with the market adoption," stated Ganapathy Krishnan, President and CEO of Zetta Systems.

Statistics and Network Disasters:
According to research data kept at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. only 43 percent of businesses suffering a disaster ever recover sufficiently to resume business. The data further shows that among businesses that do reopen, only 29 percent are still operating two years later. Even more ominous is the fact that 93 percent of businesses that lost their data-center for 10 days or more had filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. Furthermore, 50 percent of businesses that found themselves without data management for the same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately.

Zetta Server Unified, the working title for Zetta System's forthcoming storage appliance architecture, will provide OS independent, application aware, continuous snapshots and replication for dynamic block and file data. Due in the fourth quarter, new software enhancement modules will support instant disaster recovery of Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle environments, and the ability to provision file and block storage dynamically. Current customers will be able to upgrade to the Zetta Server Unified Architecture within minutes and without data loss.

"I was first skeptical of Zetta System"s product, but after its simple five minute installation and setup, I now have a secured mass storage server with superb performance, twice the number of snapshots as Windows, the exact hardware specification we need and access to reliable technical support," stated Atur Shabbas, Network Administrator at Ted Jacob Engineering Group.

About Zetta Systems
Zetta Systems is a leading technology company that is committed to delivering high availability storage appliance solutions that combine data protection, on-line backup and disaster recovery, and storage virtualization in one single package.

Sales Inquiries: Linda Cadigan         
lcadigan@zettasystems.com
(425) 485-5548

Press Inquiries: Suzanne Tonini
suzy@mtrgroup.net
(541) 312-4345                                                           
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