Empowering education and EdTech organizations with secure and cost-effective data protection
Zmanda and Amazon Web Services form a powerful partnership that caters to the specific needs of educational institutions. By combining Zmanda's advanced backup and recovery solutions with AWS's robust cloud infrastructure, educational institutions can benefit from resilient and secure data protection.
Up to 50% lower total cost of ownership
(TCO) than the competition.
#1 open-source enterprise
backup & recovery solution.
Tight integration with AWS to address unique requirements of educational institutions.
US-owned with strong
domestic customer presence.
Since 2005 with
1M+ servers protected.
24*7 support and professional services with
NPS 2x higher than the industry average.
AWS integrations and capabilities
- Backup and archive to all AWS S3 storage tiers.
- Back up to multiple AWS regions for enhanced resiliency.
- Disaster recovery support, allowing quick spin-up of workloads in AWS in case of on-premise outages.
- Ransomware protection with support for S3 Object Lock.
- Built-in Lifecycle Policy feature to archive data across Glacier Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, and Deep Archive based on rules defined in Zmanda to efficiently manage storage.
Zmanda is available on the AWS Marketplace as an AMI, enabling fast 15-minute deployments.
Advantages and cost savings
Full-featured and comprehensive
Backup workloads across hybrid-cloud data centers to local disk, tape, and all major cloud providers.
Secure
Encryption at rest and in transit, support for bring-your-own-keys (BYOK), LDAP, SSO, and RBAC.
Ransomware protection
Tight integration with AWS to address unique
requirements of government organizations
Pricing model
Zmanda’s per-workload pricing model offers up to 50% cost savings compared to traditional metered models, making it an affordable choice for government agencies.
Highly performant
Proven at petabyte scale. Support for cluster architecture, centralized management, and qualified at 400 parallel backups per instance with 15GB/s throughput.
Education and EdTech focus
Zmanda has provided a stable and comprehensive backup for Rutgers since 2010. The features of Zmanda that impressed Rutgers University most were that it provided immediate cost savings and increased storage efficiency.
- Broad government adoption: Zmanda is the preferred solution for safeguarding critical data assets among higher education institutions, research facilities, education technology companies, and supercomputing labs.
- Originated in higher education: originally developed in 1991 at the University of Maryland.
- No proprietary formats: Zmanda utilizes standard and open formats, allowing educational institutions to easily access and restore their data without any vendor lock-in.
- Open-source: packaged in all major Enterprise Linux distributions, aligning with the adoption of Linux and open-source software in educational institutions.
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Contact Zmanda now for robust AWS-powered data protection for
EdTech organizations.
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