Recently, we have been receiving a lot of feedback, queries and comments in various social platforms, so we thought we will consolidate few of them and also let you know the various routes to reach us quickly.
Me and Sri were on the road for the past 2 weeks meeting our partners and gathering feedback on how they use StoreGrid to offer cloud IT services to their business customers. This is something we love doing all the time. Getting our face in front of our partners to understand where we’re right now and learn how better we can to enable our partners offer profitable backup services. One thing we learnt is that every MSP is special and their needs are unique.
We started off with Labtech Automation Nation in Orlando, FL and we met many Vembu partners and they were all very excited to know how Vembu intuitively integrated with Labtech. Check this blog for more details and fun we had at #AN13. Then a short drive from Orlando to Tampa amidst tropical cyclone Andrea pouring heavily on us. Heavy Rain, Flooding and Storm but MSPs were working as usual and we had the chance to witness the same from our MSP partner.
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What we saw
It was three eventful days wisely spent on Labtech Automation Nation conference at Tampa, FL. We had the pleasure to meet hundreds of MSPs gathering to learn more on what’s upcoming with Labtech and what other vendors integrating with Labtech had to offer. Vembu StoreGrid certainly had an upper hand amongst other vendors since we were one of the first vendor to complete the integration into Labtech through their SDK . MSPs / Partners who stopped by our booth were very excited about it. This integration allows MSPs to mass deploy StoreGrid client agents and ability to configure and monitor StoreGrid backups right within Labtech console. Adding to that is our complete integration with ConnectWise PSA that allows MSPs to automate their billing and ticketing.
What we learnt
We learnt not to talk about backup / restore anymore during the conference as the MSPs were already overloaded with that information.
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We are sure our recent webinar ‘SyncBlaze – What’s coming next?’ showcased a quick preview of our upcoming features scheduled for the next release. Thanks to all our attendees who brought excitement in us and a special thanks to the team for demonstrating the pre-release features.
The on-demand version of the recorded webinar is available below for a replay. You can also download the webinar presentation here.
Some of the upcoming features that were previewed includes:
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I’m sure you would have read by now about StoreGrid’s integration with LabTech. Apart from the sense of eagerness we had for the finished integration, we were also excited by the fact that we are the first technology partner to complete an integration with LabTech using their official LabTech SDK!
We had signed up for LabTech SDK program a couple of months back. We had been looking forward to this integration for quite some time as a lot of our MSP partners have been requesting this integration.
Though the SDK is in beta, it is very well documented, well organised and extremely comprehensive. As the SDK forum is in a very early stage, there is not much activity there right now, but we received very fast responses each time we posted some query.
We have completed the integration with timely help from the LabTech team. They are really awesome!
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Did we hear that right? Yes, we did. Not again. Indeed, there was a significant service outage from Dropbox back in January. Today, we have been hearing a lot of outraging comment from the community about the global outage of Dropbox which lasted for an hour and a half and it is becoming an outage ritual with them.
It’s been a widespread outage this time which prevented its users from accessing their website or uploading any of their files. This matters most for their business customers especially after their decision to rebrand their dubbed Dropbox for Teams to Dropbox for Business to serve more businesses.
Some interesting and relevant read here, especially for businesses -
It’s time for Managed Service Providers #MSPs and Value Added Resellers #VARs to stand up and reveal the right file sharing service to your business customers: Use our Cloud or Host-it-Yourself.
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We know many of you have been eagerly waiting for official announcement. And now it is official! StoreGrid now works with Labtech Automation. The integration is currently being beta tested by our engineers and will soon be out to our users. Backing up all that data is now even more simpler!
Benefits of the integration
You can now let IT admins deploy StoreGrid remotely through LabTech Control Panel and perform backup and restore on hundreds of machines at the click of a button.
You can check out StoreGrid’s integration with LabTech at the upcoming Automation Nation 2013 from the 3rd to the 5th of June at Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL. You can meet our backup experts at our booth (#104) and get all your queries answered on StoreGrid, backing up through LabTech, backup, disaster recovery and much more!
Coming back to the integration, here’s a teaser of what’s in store.
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They started as Dropbox, expanded to Dropbox for Teams and now rebranded as Dropbox for Business. Are we going to see Dropbox for Enterprise too? I don’t deny the fact that Dropbox is the most widely used file sharing product among consumers because it is simple and easy-to-use to manage their personal data. When it comes to businesses, it’s a totally different story as they deal with sensitive information and can’t rely on services that will put their business at risk with data breaches and downtime.
Let’s take a look at the top reasons to choose SyncBlaze over Dropbox for Business and how Managed Service Providers and Value Added Resellers can provide a secure alternative to their business customers.
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If there is one thing the global tech community is waiting with bated breath, it has got to be the Google Glass. Initial reports suggest that people seem to either love it or loathe it. Some are already developing apps to do amazing things with the glass. Some want to punch anyone wearing google glass in the face!
We have read numerous overzealous articles and seen videos of Google Glass in an archery range, a toddler wearing Google Glass and Robert Scoble taking a shower with the glasses on. People have documented their date wearing the glasses. But how is Google Glass going to affect the way we work?
When the day comes, I’m pretty sure organizations will be generating tonnes and tonnes of data through ways never even dreamed of. Imagine your organization’s sales head walking into the conference room and saying, “Ok glass, present Q2 sales deck!” and the projector lighting up the dim lit room.
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