VIDEO: Zetta Cloud Storage and Backup Review

hello and welcome to our review of Zeta a cloud backup service for Enterprise this review is brought to you by technology advice and the smart advisor tool which lets you compare over 50 different cloud storage and backup companies in under 2 minutes Zeta is a cloud backup service marketed towards large companies and Enterprises and is designed around a centrally managed control scheme um and can back up computers or servers so ideally you'll have an IT administrator or someone in the office who will deal with the web interface where you make changes and decide what to back up and when you want to back up and then the desktop software called Zeta miror really just sits in the background of the users's uh workstations and there's no real options or even interface it just establishes that data link between the workstation and zeta's servers so here's the dashboard it's kind of the main page of zeta's interface on the web and you can see all the systems right here that you're mirroring so we have our test PC and then you'll have events which is just updates from Zeta about any maintenance or updates to their service an overview of your storage with how much space you've used and you're read and write and then any support cases that you might have filed or have recently been closed the storage tab is going to show you a hierarchy of your data um originating at the location it's being stored on zeta's servers so you have the data center where your data is residing you can actually choose that when you set up your account New Jersey or California then you have the volumes from the different computers you're backing up and um exactly what you're connecting with the protocols now you can go to zamir and that's going to show you just all the current systems um that you're backing up and if you click on any of those you'll get a little more in-depth review you can suspend any of their schedules if you click Advanced it has some interesting options such as you can artificially throttle their Network um upload speeds you can also there's a feature right here that will allow you um when a user deletes a file off their computer it will delete it from Zeta servers as well so obviously that would be helpful if you have a lot of people making small changes Del leading Word files but you might want to keep other ones permanently users this will be where you can add edit um or change the Privileges for users and groups uh in the company so again there's a powerful Central Administration aspect of this software and you'll really want one person probably managing it or a close team and then the knowledge base well has a lot of very technical advice on the best um connection speeds to use the best protocols for connecting the computers and the best sort of mirroring file systems and that's a pretty quick overview of zeta's management system for Enterprise the pros it's geared towards Enterprise um with those strong central Administration features it supports local and remote backup so you can do a hybrid cloud system if that's what you want to implement and individual users won't have to worry about configuring anything nor can they really change anything from their computers which is great if you're managing a lot of people who aren't techsavvy the drawbacks of Zeta it's not a file sharing or storage program like Dropbox so if you're looking for a collaboration tool um for small groups this really isn't it and there aren't any mobile apps right now so there's no on thee-o file viewing or uh changing privileges but you can do it from any web interface before you make any decisions on cloud storage however I recommend that you go to technology ADV device.com and look at the Smart advisor tool that's going to let you compare Zeta to over 50 different cloud backup and storage companies based on your business's unique needs thank you for watching this review of Zeta

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