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The “skewed free market” world we all live in
I just can’t resist posting this! I don’t know what to feel about the current economic crisis and how the US Federal Reserve and the central banks across the world are going about trying to avert a complete economic collapse – by pumping in more and more money into the system. I do not know if I am feeling depressed or agitated, or both! Here is a simplistic way of describing what the Fed is trying to do; you can judge for yourself if this is all true “free market”.
Let’s say there are 100 people in a room and … Read the rest
Tags: Central Banking, Economy, Fiat Money, Free Market
Posted in General, Uncategorized | 15 Comments »
May be, I am not so impressed with EMC, after all
I probably have to take back my last blog post where I talked about why I am impressed with EMC on their Decho spin off which they had announced on the 16th November. The primary reason I thought that’s a very good move from EMC is that running Decho, and hence the online backup business Mozy, as a separate independent subsidiary with its own organization would create focus and also its own nimble culture to respond aggressively to the different business requirements of the SMB market segment. This would have been difficult to do internally by EMC itself as … Read the rest
Tags: Decho, EMC, Mozy, Online Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
Why we are impressed with EMC
I should say I am seriously impressed with EMC. I am talking about their announcement of a new subsidiary called Decho, which combines the two acquisitions they had made in the last one year: the online backup services startup, Mozy, and the Personal
Information Management startup, Pi Corp. When EMC acquired Mozy I had thought EMC would use Mozy’s technology to come up with some cloud storage initiative for the enterprise and the mid-market segment. I also felt that would take away Mozy’s focus on consumer and small and medium business segment. Of course, it was probably wishful thinking … Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, Decho, EMC, Mozy, Online Backup, Pi, Picorp, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Trends, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Backup data to the cloud, within the cloud and from the cloud
The initial interest in our StoreGrid Cloud AMI solution for Amazon Web Services has been extremely encouraging. As we have more and more partners & customers testing it and discussing their ‘use cases’, we have been getting fantastic insights into the myriad possibilities the cloud throws up for all types of users. This includes MSPs and VARs offering online backup services and businesses running custom applications in the Amazon Cloud.
Backup to the cloud
The typical use case and the premise on which we started our Cloud AMI, this deployment has service providers running the StoreGrid Cloud AMI as a … Read the rest
Tags: amazon cloud backup, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, cloud backup, hybrid backup, Online Backup, StoreGrid
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 5 Comments »
StoreGrid supports Amazon Cloud – Choice and Flexibility is our mantra
Hot on the heels of Amazon removing the Beta tag and releasing Amazon EC2 for production, we are excited to announce the Beta release of Vembu StoreGrid Cloud AMI, which facilitates deploying StoreGrid in Amazon cloud computing infrastructure. This has been a long pending demand from our partner base, who are MSPs, VARs and IT Solution providers offering online backup services using StoreGrid.
StoreGrid Cloud AMI Beta is available for both Microsoft Windows Server and CentOS Linux Server. Also, the StoreGrid backup server uses the MySQL 5.0 database. All these are bundled together in the StoreGrid Cloud AMI … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, AWS, EBS, EC2, MSP, Online Backups, S3, StoreGrid, VAR
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 1 Comment »
Fight the downturn by differentiating your business with improved services
It is becoming clear that the global economy is indeed going into a painful recession. Even though we have not seen the Wall Street turmoil and the resultant credit crunch affect our business so far, we are well aware that it would be a matter of time. We still expect our business to grow though at a much reduced pace. But we are well prepared to even face a negative growth for a few quarters. I am not a fan of Donald Trump but I seem to apply his investing philosophy in the way we run our business – which … Read the rest
Tags: downturn, more with less, R&D, services, support
Posted in General, Partner Program, SMB, VARBusiness | No Comments »
Why our business will survive and thrive better in this environment
I write my first blog post at a time when I feel the economy is reaching its state of equilibrium which is to say that I consider the credit induced boom across the globe in the last few years as abnormal and unsustainable and it is indeed good we will be returning to what I consider normal and sustainable economic growth.
First some background. I am no economist and I admit my brain power is limited in a way that I cannot give you a logical analysis of what all was wrong with how the world economy was being managed. … Read the rest
Tags: credit bubble, downturn, VC
Posted in General, SMB | No Comments »
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