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Vembu’s Channel Strategy – A Reality Check
I am writing this in response to the concerns expressed by a few partners of ours on our strategy with Vembu Home online backup service for consumers and the upcoming Vembu Pro backup service for businesses (which we plan to offer to businesses exclusively through our partners). I want to clarify that Vembu Pro backup service is a result of many of our prospective partners expressing interest in reselling a branded backup service hosted and managed by us rather than hosting StoreGrid Service Provider Edition in their data center themselves and managing them.
Firstly, I want to state upfront that I … Read the rest
Tags: Channel Conflict, Channel Partners, data backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu Channel Strategy, Vembu Home, Vembu Online Backup Service, Vembu Pro
Posted in General, Online Backup, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
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 »
Individual innovations will lift us out of this economic calamity – not government doles
While searching randomly on the web I came across my own interview by a blogger on Indian startups. That interview was done little more than a year ago. A couple of things I had said was pertinent to the post “Where Are the Innovators When You Need Them?” by Joe Panettieri of MSPmentor.
Here is the link to my interview: http://desistartups.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/interview-with-vembu-by-prabhu/
To quote myself from the interview:
“The truth is that I am not really an early adopter of anything….. Also, I would like to call myself more of an incremental innovator with a lot of
Tags: Central Planning, Economic Calamity, Government Dole, Innovation, Recession
Posted in General | No Comments »
HP shutters its Upline online data backup service – Why commoditized online backup service is not a sustainable business
I was contacted by ChannelWeb to comment on HP’s decision to shutter their Upline online data backup business. The gist of what I commented was carried in the article “HP To Shutter Upline Online Storage Backup Service” by ChannelWeb’s Senior Editor Joseph F. Kovar. I felt it’s a good idea to post here my full comments along with my view about commodity online backup services like Carbonite and EMC’s Mozy.
Hope these are not perceived as just wishful thinking on my part. My comments are based on our experience supporting more than 1000 partners offering backup services … Read the rest
Tags: Commodity Storage, HP Upline, IT support, MSP, Online Backup, Sustainable Business, VAR
Posted in CRN, Online Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Will the real data please stand up? A look at deduplication in the online backup world
Talk about data deduplication (in the backup and archiving domain) seems to be gaining a fair amount of momentum in the last few years! Most enterprise backup software vendors like Symantec (Veritas), EMC (Avamar) etc. support deduplication in some form or the other – some do deduplication in the source system (that is being backed up) and others do deduplication at the target (backup/storage server). There are also pure “deduplication based storage hardware vendors” like Data Domain who have gained considerable traction in the enterprise.
I am actually quite surprised by the hype around deduplication and the adoption it … Read the rest
Tags: Checksums, Deduplication, Encryption, Online Backup, Remote Backup, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Synthetic Full Backup in the online backup world – Are we inviting trouble?
We have been noticing an increase in the number of ‘prospective partners’ asking if StoreGrid supports the synthetic full backup feature. StoreGrid does not yet support this feature as we have always given a low priority to this feature in the past. But now that it is being frequently asked for, we have started implementing it and hope to have this feature in the next few months. Though we would always like to give our partners as much choice and flexibility while using StoreGrid for their online backup services business, this particular feature has been haunting me for sometime. I … Read the rest
Tags: Data Security, Differential Backup, Encryption, Full Backup, Incremental Backup, Online Backup, Restores, StoreGrid, Synthetic Full Backup, Versioning
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 18 Comments »
Interview by BackupAnyTime
I was interviewed by John O’Neill of Ireland based online backup service provider BackuupAnyTime back in August, 2008. This was part of a series of interviews John was doing with executives from the data backup industry. One of our customers happened to read it recently and he wrote us saying it may be a good idea to post my interview in our blog or at least have a post with a link to that interview. He felt the views I expressed in the interview are quite relevant to our customer and partner base. So here is the link to the … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, interview with Sekar Vembu, online backup services, StoreGrid
Posted in General, Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 4 Comments »
Google will abandon ‘pure SaaS’ and take the ‘software plus services’ route – courtesy Microsoft
So the inevitable is happening. At last, Google seems to be coming around to Microsoft’s software plus services strategy. The news that Google is opening up Google Apps for resellers is the first step in this direction. Pure SaaS sold directly to end customers would only go some distance. There are hundreds of thousands of SMBs out there who prefer to outsource their IT to a local IT Solution provider or a managed service provider (MSP). The only way to reach that segment of the SMB is through these IT solution providers. It was hence inevitable that Google ca… Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, Google Apps, Microsoft Live, Microsoft Online, SaaS, Software as a Service, Software Plus Services
Posted in Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Government appointed “crumbs pickers” take charge at Satyam Computers! Why “in the best interests” actions are a dangerous thing?
Note to our customers and partners: Before I get bashed up by some of our customers or partners (who use our product, Vembu StoreGrid, for their online/onsite backups) who are reading this blog to learn more about our company, our product, the online backup or the SaaS/MSP industry, I promise that the next two posts of mine will be related to our business. Please bear with me for letting out my frustrations in this blog. I am deeply passionate about some of these topics – especially how more and more government intervention in our lives is the root … Read the rest
Tags: corporate scams, Free Market, government intervention, mothehood slogans, satyam's disbanded board
Posted in General, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Crooks are taking over this world; How long do we just settle for the crumbs?
I feel more and more agitated and restless nowadays. The expose of so many of the corporate scams that have been going on for so long is proving my intuitions right – that the current system of governance (the skewed free market system with so called government controlled regulatory authorities) in place across the world breed crooks more often than not. I am not at all happy about the situation though it sometimes feels good that I have personally always stayed away from investing in stock markets as I have always felt uncomfortable and did not believe in the hype and … Read the rest
Tags: coporate scams, crooks, crumbs, Free Market, government regulation, satyam scam
Posted in General, Uncategorized | No Comments »
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