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Prevention is Better than Cure
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Pardon the cliche. In the context of data, backing up is ‘prevention’. Shipping your mangled/wet/smashed/puked on hard drive to a data recovery company is ‘cure’.
I came across an interesting story from the ‘cure’ side of the data protection business. eWeek is running a slideshow feature based on Kroll Ontrack Data recovery’s compilation of the top 10 data disasters they saw in 2009. The list is interesting. Here’s a summary of the underlying causes behind the top 10 disasters:
Surely, your customers don’t enjoy the prospect of paying huge amounts of money to recover priceless data. More importantly, (for … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, data recovery, Online Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
XXX Backup
There’s a competitor of ours called Axxxx
They have a forum (if you hadn’t guessed already, you know who they are now)
One of the key rules on their forum is ‘no names of competitors’. So you’ll find references to us as Vxxxx. For example (from their forum): My reseller is close to dropping our service and switch to a vxxxx based solution because of these kinds of glitches. Please help.
You’ll also find references to some of the consumer backup services like Mxxx and Cxxxxxxxx (who is sometimes also referred to as Carb – in the fond hope that … Read the rest
Tags: ahsay, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 4 Comments »
Google Wave invites
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We’ve got 5 a sack-load of Google Wave invites to give away – to the first five people who ask for them in the comments below.
Go ahead; add your name below. We’ll accomodate all we can.
PS: invites will be emailed to the email ID associated with your profile.
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 … Read the rest
Tags: google wave, Vembu
Posted in General, google | 28 Comments »
Amazon gets calculative
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Two days ago, Amazon announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) calculator on their blog. I can see this becoming quite useful, and am, in fact, surprised that they didn’t do this earlier.
You can access the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator here. The calculator, currently in Beta, allows you to get an idea of the kind of costs you can expect for different services that you might use. They’ve even had a stab at typical figures you might be seeing for some ‘typical use cases’.
Don’t see the use cases? You need to scroll to the right if your … Read the rest
Tags: amazon, AWS, Online Backup, StoreGrid, Vembu
Posted in Amazon Cloud, Online Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
This cloud thing is going mainstream
(embedded from Dilbert.com)
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 solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.… Read the rest
Posted in General, Humour | No Comments »
The Gartner Grind
Being an IT analyst is tough work! You need to stay awake through gigabytes of power-point every day.
Additionally, if the person making the presentation is a paying client who is launching a new product or service, you’ll typically also have a lot of polite moments where you go “Great Idea, but haven’t companies A, B, E & K done something somewhat similar before?”. Typically, the accompanying thought stream is “Yeah, Yeah, tell me something I don’t already know – so I can stop pretending to be excited”
When we made an analyst/media briefing ppt for … Read the rest
Tags: analyst, Carbonite, dropbox, gartner, Mozy, Online Backup, Vembu Home
Posted in Online Backup, Vembu Home | No Comments »
I got a Google Wave invite. Now what?
Week 1: I want a Google Wave invite. I want a Google Wave invite
Week 2: I got a Google Wave invite. I got a Google Wave invite
Week 3: It’s lonely here. What do I do with Google Wave?
Sounds familiar?
I was (and am still, in some sense) in that boat – till the guy who gave me the invite just gave me two tips that really helped.
For all those of you who got into Google Wave, only to find that you and your (wave invitation) benefactor make up your entire wave universe, here’s how you can … Read the rest
Tags: google wave
Posted in google | 9 Comments »
Want free WiFi? Head to the G.Y.M.
Apologies for the corny headline. This has nothing to do with working out.
But it is good news for all those laptops that are backing up online…
G.Y.M. is short for Google, Yahoo & Microsoft. The three companies seem to be in the midst of a flurry of FREE WiFi announcements. Here’s stuff that came through from G.Y.M. in the last 48 hours:
Google announced free WiFi at 47 airports – through the holiday season and into January 2010. They even have a FreeHolidayWifi web site on this. In what could easily be spun as a “limit the joy … Read the rest
Tags: airports, amazon, free wifi, freeholidaywifi, google, Microsoft, Online Backup, times square, yahoo
Posted in Broadband, General, google, Microsoft, Online Backup | No Comments »
The future of usability is almost here
Remember Minority Report and the cool way in which Tom Cruise used computers. Or Harry Potter with its video embedded in newspapers?
It’s here – and will cost less than $350
We obsess a fair bit about user interfaces & usability. This TED video from MIT’s Media Labs just blew our mind. Check it out. I promise you’ll be impressed.
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… Read the rest
Tags: MIT Media Lab, Pattie Maes, Pranav Mistry, SixthSense, TED, usability
Posted in Events, General, Trends | 2 Comments »
All Clouds are not Equal
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Some time ago, we’d written about David Chappell’s talk on Windows Azure, and why it was different. I’d also mentioned that I’d share the slide deck once I got it from David. Here it is.
(the ppt is cued to slide 27 which is where the fun stuff begins – the comparisons with other platforms. As we said earlier, the ‘neutrality’ with which this was presented was refreshing)
Read on…
The Windows Azure Platform a Perspective Chappell
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, … Read the rest
Tags: amazon, appengine, azure, David Chappell, force, Microsoft
Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure, Events, google, Microsoft, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Trends | No Comments »
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