January 11, 2008 at 12:41 am | File Backup
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Zmanda, a company commercializing the open-source Amanda backup software, announced a partnership by which customers can store their data at Amazon.com’s S3–the online Simple Storage Service.
The partnership spotlights the growing influence of Amazon’s S3, which provides customers with online storage whose costs are tied to the amount of storage needed. It’s one of several online services Amazon offers.
Armed with Zmanda’s security and support Amazon S3 comes as a complete data backup and disaster recovery solution for all businesses.
“The combination of Zmanda’s affordable open source back-up software and Amazon’s online storage solution will fundamentally change the way businesses backup and archive corporate data,” said Chander Kant, Zmanda CEO. “With Zmanda and Amazon S3, virtually any business can afford the luxury of remote Internet storage that is immediately available, infinitely scalable, and secure.”
January 4, 2008 at 12:53 am | General Issues
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Just two days after Intuit Inc. said it had finally come up with a permanent patch for a bug in QuickBooks on the Mac that erased files from users’ hard drives, the company acknowledged it has not completely fixed the flaw.
Users who apply the patch — available for manual download since Monday and scheduled to be automatically downloaded to all machines running QuickBooks 2006 for Mac starting Thursday morning — are still at risk if they run the accounting software while in range of a wireless hot spot, said Ian Vacin, offering leader for Intuit’s Mac finance line, in a posting to the product’s support forum Monday afternoon.
“We have determined that the prior bug re-manifests itself when QuickBooks Pro 2006 for Mac is initiated at public Internet hotspots and a redirection error occurs (for instance, when you are at a cafe that requires you to pay to use its services),” said Ian Vacin, offering leader of Intuit’s Mac financial software in a posting to QuickBooks Web site discussion board.
Vacin explained that an upcoming “R5″ patch, expended to be released today, fixes the problem completely by entirely disabling the product upgrade mechanism that caused the desktop file deletion in the first place.