Proven, Cost-Effective Open Source Backup and Recovery

Zmanda offers proven and cost-effective open source backup and recovery solutions. With the advantage of the open source development, we are able to provide our customers with the very best quality software such as Amanda and ZRM for MySQL. Our solutions are available at a fraction of the cost of incumbent proprietary vendors, providing our customers with a low cost of ownership and high return on their investment in Zmanda. Our strong partnerships with various open source projects strengthen our ability to add functionality and provide the top-notch support expected by enterprise customers.

Zmanda contributes development and testing resources to open source data protection projects that share our vision. We also provide hardware, collaboration tools and financial assistance to key developers in the open source community.

Chander Kant

Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Paddy Sreenivasan

Paddy is the Vice President of Engineering and a founder of Zmanda, Inc. He is responsible for technical strategy and development of leading software products for data protection. Paddy has over 13 years of experience in development and management of software for enterprise storage. In addition, he has worked with various open source communities, including leading the development of an open source high-availability clustering solution. Prior to founding Zmanda, he had key engineering roles at Cisco, SGI and HP. He holds a Bachelor's degree from BITS, Pilani and a Master's degree from the University of Pune, India.

Ann Ruckstuhl

Ann is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Technology Evangelist at Zmanda. Prior to Zmanda, Ann was the Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Sybase where she successfully spearheaded the company's strategy and go-to-market focus in enterprise mobility and business intelligence. In the late 1990's, Ann was a part of the core team at Billpoint that pioneered online person-to-person payments, enabling anyone to buy, sell and pay other efficiently. The company was later acquired by eBay Inc. in 1999. As Vice President of Strategy at The Content Group, Ann drove many early implementations that enabled media companies to digitize, archive, index, search, distribute and monetize their media assets over the Web. Ann started her career at Hewlett-Packard where she held various management positions in engineering, product management, marketing and business development. Ann holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in business from the University of Florida.

Dmitri Joukovski

Dmitri is Zmanda's Vice President of Product Management. Having extensive experience in product management of enterprise software, Dmitri is responsible for all aspects of product management at Zmanda. Prior to joining Zmanda, he was a consulting product manager at EMC Corporation, where he was responsible for business integration across product lines within the EMC Software Group. In addition, Dmitri has been a principal product manager for Legato NetWorker, a leading enterprise backup and recovery product. Dmitri holds a Master's degree in Physics from St. Petersburg University in Russia and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Ram “TK” Krishnamurthy

TK is Zmanda's Vice President of Services, Support and IT operations. TK is responsible for Zmanda's worldwide customer services, which includes customer support, training and consulting services. TK has more than 12 years of experience in professional services for enterprise software and IT infrastructure. Prior to joining Zmanda, TK held various roles with SGI. In his last position there, TK managed professional services operations for the Asia-Pacific region. Earlier he was part of the field technical support group where he led the strategic planning, implementation and support of complex SGI installations worldwide. TK holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Madras and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

K. K. George

KK is the Vice President of Zmanda's India Development Center in Pune. He has 14 years of experience and has worked extensively in the storage domain. He also has extensive experience in setting up development teams in India for US based companies. Prior to joining Zmanda, he was Director of development at CA. Previously, he was the Director of Engineering at Intransa's development center in Pune and was instrumental in setting up its development team. Before joining Intransa, he held various positions at VERITAS. KK holds a Bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum and a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

Peter Buhl

General Partner, co-founded BlueRun Ventures in 1998. Prior to BlueRun Ventures, Pete spent 8 years in senior financial and operational roles at information technology companies including Ipsilon Networks and Software Alliance Corporation. He began his career at Price Waterhouse and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to Zmanda, Pete serves on the Board of Directors of Atrua Technologies, Cornice, FreedomPay, Netli, Nevis Networks and WaveMarket.

Deepak Kamra

General Partner, joined Canaan in 1991 after eleven years of operating responsibility in the telecommunications, computer, and software industries. Prior to joining Canaan, he held several senior sales and marketing positions at Aspect Communications, a successful Silicon Valley based startup in the call-center and switching industry. He previously held positions at ROLM Corporation and was General Manager of a division of TRW Datacomm International. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. In addition to Zmanda, Deepak currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Aperto Networks, e4e, GroundWork, InfiniRoute, Loyalty Lab, ON24, and Qovia.

Ashish Gupta

Managing Director and an Investment Advisor at Helion Ventures Partners. Prior to Helion, Ashish was most recently a venture partner at Woodside Fund, investing in early stage companies. He invested in and co-founded Tavant technologies, a $50 million+ revenue company. Before Tavant, he was at Amazon.com which he joined through acquisition of Junglee which Ashish co–founded. He has also worked at Oracle Corporation and at IBM's Almaden Research Center. Ashish holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold medal.

Chander Kant

Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur.
 

Canaan Partners

Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners has amassed a seasoned team of investment professionals with extensive technology, infrastructure, communications and life sciences experience. The diverse backgrounds and skill sets of team members enable Canaan to provide portfolio companies with an unusually broad range of managerial and operational guidance. Canaan's investment professionals have significant investment, operations and management experience with small and mid-sized companies. The backgrounds of the professionals include operating experience in engineering, manufacturing, finance, strategic planning, investment banking and legal affairs. The majority of the General Partners have worked together since the early 1990s. Canaan currently manages roughly $2.0B in investment capital.