VEMBU BLOG
October, 2009
Lyrics of da rap intro to da Cloud
.
We had a couple (two, to be honest) of requests for the lyrics of our Cloud Cloud Maybe video. If you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for?
8,670 people can’t be wrong. That’s how many views its got on YouTube alone.
The lyrics? Here goes…
CLOUD CLOUD MAYBE
Yo ISP! Let’s vaporize it
Cloud cloud maybe (x2)
All right stop. Virtualize and listen
This cloud is hot – infrastructure invention
This trend is grabbin’ hold of us tightly
We’re blogging and debating daily and nightly
Is it really hot? Yo, I don’t know
but scalin’ … Read the rest
Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure, Online Backup, Trends, Vembu Home | 4 Comments »
Vembu Home is now in Public Beta
Vembu Home is now available to all. No more invitation codes.
The response from users during the short Private Beta period (we launched on October 8th) has been awesome. The hybrid approach taken by Vembu Home to provide the ability to backup both to local machines as well as online to the Amazon Cloud, has been singled out for the most praise by users who sent us their feedback.
We are now more pumped up and are working longer hours to add more useful features to Vembu Home. Please do send us your feedback and feature requests. Your input will … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, Private Beta, Public Beta, Vembu Home
Posted in Amazon Cloud, General, Vembu Home | No Comments »
The last place you’d expect to see an Apple logo
.
Check out the LiveMesh (a Microsoft service) site.
Guess who’s logo prominently features in the homepage?
Apple.
Yes, Apple!
And an Apple Mac, at that. Can’t see it clearly in the screenshot below?
Go ahead, check out the Live Mesh site.
I see this as another example of Microsoft’s new ‘approach’ that we spoke about earlier. Of course, they’re doing it to highlight the cross platform sync capabilities of their application – but a few years ago, you’d have expected Microsoft to pretend that a Mac didn’t even merit ‘consideration’ for their sync application.
The … Read the rest
Tags: Apple, LiveMesh, Microsoft
Posted in General, Vembu Home | No Comments »
A bold initiative from Microsoft Azure
Last week, I attended a Microsoft Azure event in Bangalore.
When I received the invitation to the event, I was surprised to see that Microsoft had arranged for a non Microsoft person, David Chappell, to speak at the event. I’d have thought that they would have arranged for someone from the Azure product team.
Now, David’s a well known speaker, and he’s really good at keeping things simple. And, he certainly helped make the event interesting.
But there was a larger reason behind getting someone from outside of Microsoft…
Neutrality!
More often than not, vendors ‘pretend’ to be neutral … Read the rest
Tags: azure, David Chappell, Microsoft
Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure | No Comments »
TechCrunch’s Subliminal Messaging (Conspiracy?)
Subliminal advertising has always been the more talked about part of subliminal messaging. How about subliminal messaging through search results?
Go to TechCrunch’s search box, and search for anything – the longer your phrase, the better (you’ll have fewer results to wade through).
Scroll through the results – what do you find? All results from www.TechCrunch.com are correctly dated. All results from external sites are dated Dec 31, 1969. The subliminal messaging: any TechCrunch result is current. Everyone else is ‘living in the past’. How’s that for a conspiracy theory a la Web2.0?
Of course, it’s probably just a … Read the rest
Tags: conspiracy theory, subliminal messaging, techcrunch
Posted in General | 1 Comment »
Cloud Cloud Maybe
StoreGrid & Vembu Home help you backup your files, music and important music videos like this one:
Cloud Cloud Maybe – A parody featuring the usual suspects in Cloud Computing & Storage
[youtube Miv3Y42Fv44]
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup … Read the rest
Tags: amazon, atmos, azure, caringo, EC2, mashable, nirvanix, parascale, S3, sun cloud, techcrunch, Vembu Home
Posted in Amazon Cloud, General, Vembu Home | 13 Comments »
Where does Vembu Home fit…in the grand scheme of things?
We’ve been in business since 2004. Our Service Provider Edition has been available since early 2006.
Our flagship product, StoreGrid runs on over 100,000 computers, and is ‘under the hood’ of about 1,500 service providers across the globe.
StoreGrid is also ‘under the hood’ of our new Vembu Home service.
So, why are we launching our own service?
Are we (shudder) planning on competing with our own service providers? Are we changing our business model?
No, and no.
Hopefully, the following points will place things in perspective…
- We’ve been squarely focused on ‘business backups’ so far. This focus will continue
Tags: Online Backup, Vembu Home
Posted in Amazon Cloud, New Release, Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
Vembu Home is ready to save (backup) the world
After over a year of work (on top of the existing StoreGrid engine), Vembu Home is finally ready.
We took all the time we needed as we wanted Vembu Home to be unlike anything you’ve seen. And we (obviously) think, it is unlike any backup software you’ve seen- and will see for some time, at least.
The obvious question first. Why is Vembu Home different?
a) It’s iPhone inspired user interface is light years ahead of anything else. With its fluidity and intuitiveness, people may actually start enjoying backing up.
b) It is the first and only consumer backup solution … Read the rest
Tags: Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, amazon, Online Backup, Private Beta, Vembu
Posted in Amazon Cloud, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 6 Comments »
Strange bedfellows
This is a screen capture from an email newsletter I received from “Redmond Channel Partner Update”
Notice anything strange? Post / Ask in the comments if you do / don’t
… Posted in General, Partner Program | No Comments »
I Feel Good
Why? Three reasons
Reason 1:
TechCrunch just reported that Google was experimenting with new minimalist designs. It feels good to say we saw this coming and said so in an earlier post on why Google will kill the I’m feeling lucky button. Like we said, it’s all about the money, honey.
Reason 2:
We (finally) got StoreGrid v3.0 out of the gates. It’s a real beast! Take it for a spin if you haven’t done so already.
Reason 3:
We’re this close to announcing “Vembu Home”. Its iPhone inspired UI is miles ahead of anything you’ve seen (talking of … Read the rest
Posted in Amazon Cloud, General, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Trends, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Subscribe
- Solutions
- Products
- Support
- General
- Company
© 2004 - 2012 Vembu Technologies Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Connect with us on