The 3 Essential Reasons to choose SyncBlaze over Dropbox for Business

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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Are you ready to provide cloud services in the Google Glass era?

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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Follow the Trail – Vembu at ASCII and CWUG

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Data backup and Disaster recovery in healthcare industry

Data backup and disaster recovery is a must have process in almost every industry in the world. But the one industry for which data backup is absolutely critical is probably the healthcare industry.

With mounting data of patient records, reports and diagnostic images that needs to be kept secure and confidential, data backup for the healthcare industry is possibly the second most important operation of any hospital, the first one being health care itself.

With the growing number of regulations and laws regarding this health care data, it becomes top priority for IT managers to make sure that processes are in place.

Traditionally, health care backups like most other industries rely on tape backups. But the problem with tape backups are aplenty starting with the issue of reliability. It is no big secret that tape backups are insecure. Plus the problem of physical storage is another big issue. There have been instances where IT managers discover during the point of restore, much to their despair that the tapes are beyond recovery.
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MSPs fighting back commoditized cloud services – What we learnt from HTG

We @ Vembu are of course excited to be a part of #HTG  earlier this week at Dallas, Texas and it was definitely a wonderful 4 days being in the midst of  highly energetic minded people!

A big shout out to the nice folks at HTG (@Arlin and Team) organizing these events where MSPs can meet, greet and mainly learn best practices from each other. Who better to learn about the business and industry, but from your peers? It was indeed heartwarming to see the number of MSPs stepping forward and embracing cloud technology.

One major concern that was aired at the event when we spoke to MSPs is that businesses are showing a tendency to check out major cloud service platforms like Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps etc. However the good thing about the business model of MSPs is that they have all the liberty in the world to offer the very best of cloud services from various vendors unlike the big cloud service providers.
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Get your files on-the-go with SyncBlaze

Business today is mobile, it’s not confined by offices or timezones. Business users work from multiple remote locations and will need access to their files when they’re at home, in the office or even on the road. Computing is not just about desktops anymore, it’s diversified to multiple devices like notebooks, tablets and smartphones. So as a SERVICE PROVIDER, how are you going to offer businesses with flexible file access from multiple devices and help them get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend?

Well, you should have already been asking the below questions to your business customers:

• Do you want to stay up-to-date with your content even while you’re on the go?
• Do you have to proof through the sales collateral before the big presentation with your clients?
• Want to be part of the mobile workforce who needs to share reports from anywhere, anytime?
• Have you ever been away from office or home and realized you need a file from your computer?

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Taneja Group report on Vembu Technologies

Technology Analysts, Taneja Group recently wrote about Vembu Technologies. The report which is available with both Vembu and Taneja Group talks about Vembu’s two offerings, StoreGrid and SyncBlaze.

“Vembu completes its product portfolio with customized editions of StoreGrid and SyncBlaze for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Hosting Providers (MHPs), Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs). These specialized editions enable Vembu partners to offer multi-platform hybrid cloud data protection and content management to their SMB and mid-sized customers. Vembu’s customized support and business management offerings enable these partners to grow their customer base, increase revenues, and speed up go-to-market initiatives”

The report talks about the key market issues like growing data and the growing cost of IT before touching on challenges faced by each consumer segment (MSP, HSP, VAR, SMB and OEM) and how Vembu solves these with Innovative Hybrid Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery and Secure File Collaboration.
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Announcing StoreGrid IOS update version 1.1.0

Missed backups? Running out of disk space in your server? Do you have to login to the StoreGrid console or check your email for alerts to find out? Well, not anymore. The new enhanced StoreGrid iOS app will  get you instant alerts and the current status, for you our partners and StoreGrid users to manage backups on the move. We have spent the last few months listening to your feedback and have made a series of changes and improved the look and feel to give you an even better StoreGrid experience.

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SyncBlaze Cloud gets the latest update!

After the recent release of SyncBlaze Service Provider Edition, we have now upgraded our cloud server to bring in all the features to the cloud.

Important Note: All the client agents need to be upgraded to the latest version since the older clients will not be able to connect to the server after the upgrade. Install and upgrade now!

For all the branded versions, we have already uploaded your customized client agents which will be available in your ‘Install’ page.

Some of the key features included in the release update are:

• APIs in SyncBlaze (login, registration, data usage)
• Client Tray Enhancements
• Unicode Character Support (includes UTF-8 character set)

You can get to know more about the features in our previous release blog. We have more features lined up for the upcoming releases such as Profile-based client installation, Events module, Folder sharing with links and more, so make sure to watch our space for more updates.
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We are hiring!

Do you love code? Do you sleep during the day and spend the night stalking GitHub? Do you dream code?

If you said yes to the above questions and if you’re fresh out of college (2013 graduates), we should meet!

We do some awesome things in the world of backup and sync & we would like you to be part of our growth.

We do have a stringent interview process. The first round would comprise of a one and half hour test with multiple choice questions in aptitude, logic reasoning and verbal ability. Candidates who get above the cut-off mark will be selected for the second round. The cut-off mark could be anywhere from 65% to 75%. There is no minimum XII or X marks needed to write this test.

Candidates who clear the first round will be informed by phone and email that they have been selected. They will be given a day and time when they should appear for the second round.
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