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VEMBU BLOG
February, 2010
On Vembu & VC Investment
I keep getting emails from VC firms at regular intervals. I have had initial phone calls with many of them. But invariably there is no progress as we just do not act on raising money on our own because I fundamentally cannot get myself to pitch my business to a VC just to raise money. The reason is that I am uncomfortable doing a business plan on how I will scale the company. Because until we try something out we will never know whether it is going to work or not. It is always continuous experiments you run and figure … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, offsite backup, Remote Backup, Sekar Vembu and VC Investment, Vembu and VC, Vembu and VC Investment, Vembu Online Backup, Vembu Technologies | Angel Investors
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Trends, VC Investment, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Microsoft features Vembu as ‘Startup of the Day’ in Microsoft Startup Zone
More excitement rolls in as Microsoft BizSpark featured ‘Vembu’ as their ‘Startup of the Day’ on its website today. As you might recall from my previous blog that Microsoft handpicked Vembu Technologies as one of the most promising 45 startup firms around 10 countries for the new ‘BizSpark One’ program and Vembu is the first and only firm from India to be selected for that Program.
As part of being the “Startup Of the Day” our CEO, Sekar Vembu was interviewed by the Microsoft BizSpark team. Here is a quote from the interview:
“It certainly feels good to … Read the rest
Tags: microsoft backup, microsoft startup of the day, offsite backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Moving on…
In response to our competitor’s willingness to stop the blog war, we want to reiterate that as a company we do not like to indulge in blog wars or any unwarranted mudslinging. We were just provoked by RBS’s constant focus in attacking our product and company without full understanding of what we are. We apologize if we hurt anyone personally in this avoidable blog war.
As a company we are down to earth to the point that we even feel uncomfortable beating our own drums leave alone indulge in mudslinging or attacking a competition with creating FUD about them. We … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Internet Backup, microsoft backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
On Paternity Claims and Sundry Other Rants…
I ran into an especially long-winded post in a competitor’s blog – it is very confused even by the standards of someone who claims paternity for the ‘online backup industry’. Initially, I thought it was just the phrase ‘online-backup’, but later it transpired that it was the whole industry for which parentage was being claimed. Much the same thing happened with me when one day in 1993, I asked my friend near the refrigerator, ‘(We) Got Milk?’ and thereby INVENTED the phrase ‘Got Milk?’. AND pasteurization. AND the whole dairy industry. Giggle.
I wouldn’t have written this post hadn’t it … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Internet Backup, microsoft backup, Online Backup, RBS goof up, Remote Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Should we respond to a competitor’s FUD tactics?
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds”.
- Orison Swett Marden
The above quote would be a perfect fit for what we have been encountering here at Vembu .
We feel lonely at the top, especially when we are successful and our competitors take shots at us whenever they can. Some of them write blogs and articles about stuffs they SIMPLY don’t understand and some have their daily bread and butter watching our forums and press releases. I am … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Internet Backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Why Vembu is better than other competitors
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Microsoft picks Vembu for its new ‘BizSpark One’ global initiative
We’re super excited as Microsoft rolled out their ‘BizSpark One’ Program and picked Vembu Technologies as one of 45 start-up firms from around 10 countries worldwide and Vembu is the first and only firm from India to be selected for this Program. BizSpark One companies are selected based on their potential to succeed in marketplace and shape the industry’s future with innovative software solutions and their commitment to develop and deploy these solutions.
BizSpark one is the latest expansion of Microsoft’s BizSpark Program and designed to accelerate the growth of selected high potential startups through focused relationship with Microsoft. As … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, microsoft backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in General, Remote Backup, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
The Cloud: Substance wins over Form
The Cloud has garnered quite a bit of media storm since its advent with big names like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Sun throwing in their hats in the ring. Not to mention the controversy kicked up by McKinsey’s uncharitable comments on the Cloud.
We have always believed that the Cloud would be a valuable addition to an MSP’s arsenal – and we went about supporting Amazon Cloud services precisely because of that. This enabled our partners to either operate their entire backup service out of Amazon’s EC2/S3 services or simply leverage S3 storage service for the offsite replication. And we … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, Cloud, cloud backup, ESG, Steve Duplessie
Posted in Amazon Cloud, Online Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Does a hosting company deserve ‘The most popular online backup company’ award?
Can an Apple be awarded in the ‘Best Orange’ Category? If yes, then that’s what is happening in the online backup industry. With the advent of Online Marketing and Search Engines, people start to plug in their service into categories that don’t fit their core business just for gaining Online Reputation. One such classic example for this situation is the awards announced by the Online Backup Directory for the Jan 2010’s ‘Most Popular Online Backup Company’ category. The results for this award can be viewed at http://www.onlinebackupdir.com/news/ShowItem.aspx?ID=28499.
Now, if you go through the list of companies that received this … Read the rest
Tags: managed hosting, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
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