Fwd: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL

[Chris Nighswonger]

This probably also explains the lack of attention to various ZWC issues as
well.

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On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Chris Hoogendyk 
wrote:

> My Google alert on Zmanda woke up last night for the first time in a long
> time and sent me this:
>
> BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of *Zmanda* Enterprise Backup
> 
>
> Chicago Evening Post
> “We are excited to add *Zmanda* to the BETSOL product family,” said Ashok
> Reddy, CEO of BETSOL. “With the Rebit acquisition, we are gaining good
> traction in consumer and SMB backup market. Now, with *Zmanda*, our
> enterprise customers have award-winning reliable product lines with
> best-in-class ...
>
>
> I assume we take them at their word that it will be a seamless transition.
> There is supposed to be a new Zmanda website in the works. My sense was
> that it had become stale under Carbonite. For example, the blogs show 2013
> as the latest entry. I've also had some trouble editing the wiki at
> multiple times over the last couple of years.
>
> Who is still with Zmanda in the core team and management? Are they going
> to be adding anyone? Or getting help from BETSOL?
>
> Just wondering if anyone has any inside information they want to share –
> realizing it is still early in the game.
>
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Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> "GK" == George Kelbley  writes:

GK> My Department also purchased the Enterprise Zmanda license to get
GK> NDMP support. However our lastest upgrade on the file server changed
GK> the NDMP requirements and Zmanda can no longer use it.  I've
GK> switched to have Zmanda use NFS, which I could do with regular open
GK> source Amanda.

The regular open source Amanda supports NDMP as well, and it has been
touched as recently as late 2017.  Not that I've ever used it but there
is certainly plenty of code for it.  Someone who knows NDMP could
probably make it work if they had the time to put into it.

 - J<

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL

[George Kelbley]

Interesting.  My Department also purchased the Enterprise Zmanda license 
to get NDMP support.  However our lastest upgrade on the file server 
changed the NDMP requirements and Zmanda can no longer use it.  I've 
switched to have Zmanda use NFS, which I could do with regular open 
source Amanda.  So we will probably not be renewing our "Enterprise" 
license.


Oure filer vendor checked with Zmanda and was told there were no plans 
modify Zmanda Enterprise to work with the new filer OS.



On 05/08/2018 11:35 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:

Just my 2cents.

I've been aware of that fact for a while as the institution I work for
has bought in the past year an Amanda Enterprise license from
Carbonite/Zmanda for a proprietary filer/NAS that needs NDMP for backups
and back in late February I received a notice from a Carbonite sales rep
about BETSOL acquiring them.

I'm a bit pessimistic about the whole deal and considering my options
now: I have a case support that I opened before the deal was announced
in February and for weeks I have been waiting for updates, asking for
any updates, every week, to no avail. Just an automatic reply about
support looking into the issue.  It's been more than 2 months now.

The sales rep though assures me that (his words):
"Betsol is absolutely honoring the licensing and support subscriptions
purchased from Zmanda-Carbonite that are still active".

just saying,
jf


* Chris Hoogendyk  [20180508 13:15]:

My Google alert on Zmanda woke up last night for the first time in a long time 
and sent me this:

BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of *Zmanda* Enterprise Backup

<http://chicagoeveningpost.com/2018/05/06/betsol-completes-the-acquisition-of-zmanda-enterprise-backup/>


Chicago Evening Post
“We are excited to add *Zmanda* to the BETSOL product family,” said Ashok 
Reddy, CEO of BETSOL.
“With the Rebit acquisition, we are gaining good traction in consumer and 
SMB backup market.
Now, with *Zmanda*, our enterprise customers have award-winning reliable 
product lines with
best-in-class ...


I assume we take them at their word that it will be a seamless
transition. There is supposed to be a new Zmanda website in the
works. My sense was that it had become stale under Carbonite. For
example, the blogs show 2013 as the latest entry. I've also had some
trouble editing the wiki at multiple times over the last couple of
years.

Who is still with Zmanda in the core team and management? Are they
going to be adding anyone? Or getting help from BETSOL?

Just wondering if anyone has any inside information they want to
share – realizing it is still early in the game.

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Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL

[Jean-Francois Malouin]

Just my 2cents.

I've been aware of that fact for a while as the institution I work for
has bought in the past year an Amanda Enterprise license from
Carbonite/Zmanda for a proprietary filer/NAS that needs NDMP for backups
and back in late February I received a notice from a Carbonite sales rep
about BETSOL acquiring them. 

I'm a bit pessimistic about the whole deal and considering my options
now: I have a case support that I opened before the deal was announced
in February and for weeks I have been waiting for updates, asking for
any updates, every week, to no avail. Just an automatic reply about
support looking into the issue.  It's been more than 2 months now. 

The sales rep though assures me that (his words):
"Betsol is absolutely honoring the licensing and support subscriptions
purchased from Zmanda-Carbonite that are still active".

just saying,
jf


* Chris Hoogendyk  [20180508 13:15]:
> My Google alert on Zmanda woke up last night for the first time in a long 
> time and sent me this:
> 
>BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of *Zmanda* Enterprise Backup
>
> <http://chicagoeveningpost.com/2018/05/06/betsol-completes-the-acquisition-of-zmanda-enterprise-backup/>
> 
> 
>Chicago Evening Post
>“We are excited to add *Zmanda* to the BETSOL product family,” said Ashok 
> Reddy, CEO of BETSOL.
>“With the Rebit acquisition, we are gaining good traction in consumer and 
> SMB backup market.
>Now, with *Zmanda*, our enterprise customers have award-winning reliable 
> product lines with
>best-in-class ...
> 
> 
> I assume we take them at their word that it will be a seamless
> transition. There is supposed to be a new Zmanda website in the
> works. My sense was that it had become stale under Carbonite. For
> example, the blogs show 2013 as the latest entry. I've also had some
> trouble editing the wiki at multiple times over the last couple of
> years.
> 
> Who is still with Zmanda in the core team and management? Are they
> going to be adding anyone? Or getting help from BETSOL?
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has any inside information they want to
> share – realizing it is still early in the game.
> 
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> Chris Hoogendyk
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>O__   Systems Administrator
>   c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments
>  (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center
> ~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> 
> 
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> Erdös 4
> 

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 08 May 2018 12:14:34 Chris Hoogendyk wrote:

> My Google alert on Zmanda woke up last night for the first time in a
> long time and sent me this:
>
> BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of *Zmanda* Enterprise Backup
>
> tion-of-zmanda-enterprise-backup/>
>
>
> Chicago Evening Post
> “We are excited to add *Zmanda* to the BETSOL product family,”
> said Ashok Reddy, CEO of BETSOL. “With the Rebit acquisition, we are
> gaining good traction in consumer and SMB backup market. Now, with
> *Zmanda*, our enterprise customers have award-winning reliable product
> lines with best-in-class ...
>
>
> I assume we take them at their word that it will be a seamless
> transition. There is supposed to be a new Zmanda website in the works.
> My sense was that it had become stale under Carbonite. For example,
> the blogs show 2013 as the latest entry. I've also had some trouble
> editing the wiki at multiple times over the last couple of years.
>
> Who is still with Zmanda in the core team and management? Are they
> going to be adding anyone? Or getting help from BETSOL?
>
> Just wondering if anyone has any inside information they want to share
> – realizing it is still early in the game.

Not a whisper Chris, thanks for the heads up. I've noted that Amanda has 
been pretty quiet too, but then the majority of its problems the last 
3-4 years have been introduced by changes in tar. That takes our limited 
manpower away from other development I'm sure. And brings a modern face 
to TANSTAAFL, proving yet again that there is no way to bypass it.

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Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL

[Chris Hoogendyk]

My Google alert on Zmanda woke up last night for the first time in a long time 
and sent me this:

   BETSOL Completes the Acquisition of *Zmanda* Enterprise Backup
   



   Chicago Evening Post
   “We are excited to add *Zmanda* to the BETSOL product family,” said Ashok 
Reddy, CEO of BETSOL.
   “With the Rebit acquisition, we are gaining good traction in consumer and 
SMB backup market.
   Now, with *Zmanda*, our enterprise customers have award-winning reliable 
product lines with
   best-in-class ...


I assume we take them at their word that it will be a seamless transition. There is supposed to be a 
new Zmanda website in the works. My sense was that it had become stale under Carbonite. For example, 
the blogs show 2013 as the latest entry. I've also had some trouble editing the wiki at multiple 
times over the last couple of years.


Who is still with Zmanda in the core team and management? Are they going to be adding anyone? Or 
getting help from BETSOL?


Just wondering if anyone has any inside information they want to share – realizing it is still early 
in the game.


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Chris Hoogendyk

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   O__   Systems Administrator
  c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments
 (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center
~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst



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