In 2011, offsite, aka ‘cloud’, everything is the rage, and, definitely the future.

And as we accumulate date, and save that data to offsite, we need to protect that data.

Zetta is a company that fulfills that requirement.

Why am watching Zetta?
Zetta delivers immediate, offsite data protection for company/enterprise data. Zetta services would allow us to enable client businesses to quickly adopt storage-as-a-service, protecting and recovering their data without expensive or risky changes to information technology environments.

According to Ali Jenab, Zetta CEO, “Enterprise customers from legal services, education, business and financial services, media and entertainment, as well as software and technology are using the Zetta Storage Service today for on-demand data protection and online archiving. We have simplified the complex problem of enterprise data protection with one-step, offsite synchronization and immediate recovery, eliminating backup challenges and reducing costs.”

A description of Zetta is below

Zetta Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud storage services.

Zetta makes businesses more productive by allowing them to deploy massively scalable, fully protected, data storage capacity in minutes instead of weeks while eliminating the cost and complexity of traditional data protection. Zetta Data Protect solution immediately replicates and protects enterprise data offsite with industry-leading data integrity, enterprise-grade data security and performance-critical SLAs. Restores are instantaneous with direct file-level access to data at all times. Zetta Data Protect is provisioned in minutes, and data can be protected offsite in just hours.

Zetta was established in 2007 by successful serial entrepreneurs and technology executives from companies such as Netscape, VeriSign, Symantec, EMC, and Shutterfly. The Zetta team is unified by its deep history of innovation and its common goal of simplifying and solving complex technology challenges such as enterprise data protection.