Articles by Author -- Alolita Sharma

A hands-on review of Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 on Ubuntu Server.

Zmanda brings its robust, well integrated database backup and recovery package to one of the most popular Linux distributions with its latest product release of Zmanda Recovery Manager version 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu.

Over the past decade open source software has become popular with technology users in India. The benefits of open source - affordability, availability of source code and freedom of choice - have made open source a preferred platform for many innovative Indian organizations and individuals who want to harness the power of high quality software which can be freely adapted to their own requirements.

An easy-to-use yet comprehensive backup and recovery solution for MySQL databases is at the top of every DBA’s wishlist. In this review, we take a look at Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, an open source data protection solution. ZRM simplifies MySQL data backup and recovery with a web-based management console and open data formats.

In email interviews with Chander Kant, CEO and cofounder of Zmanda, and Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering and cofounder of Zmanda, Alolita Sharma discussed all things ZRM, open-source backup and growing an Open Source community.

In this article we’ll focus on one of the most popular cloud computing solutions today, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and walk through the development of an open source mashup for EC2.

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Software as a Service, cloud computing has come into vogue. Cloud computing has become synonymous with providing services anywhere anytime with the basic requirement being access to the internet.

A review of some current state-of-the-art digital TV tuner cards, focusing on how well they support digital television in Linux. Over-the-air television broadcasts in the US will convert to all digital in February 2009. So, it was exciting to switch over to digital TV on my desktop.

Raven Zachary is research director for Open Source at the 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company headquartered in New York. As a community activist, Zachary is also a key organizer of BarCamps in the US. Alolita Sharma talks to Raven Zachary about the trends he sees as a key industry analyst and as an active community organizer in the open source world.

Virgin Airlines recently launched a ‘geek-friendly’ service for the US market. And it has many Silicon Valley geeks wishing they were on-board.