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		<title>It&#8217;s a wrap! What we learnt from cPanel bootcamp 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cPanel automation bootcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domain backup and recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s was great to meet many web hosting and managed hosting service providers at the cPanel automation bootcamp, Austin, TX and needless to say, we all had nice time and made new friends. Her&#8217;s a small recap of what we&#8217;ve learn&#8217;t from the bootcamp and what we&#8217;ve on plate for web hosting and managed hosting providers for offering backup service to their customers.</p>
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<li>Vembu has tremendous experience in serving a channel of service providers and as of today we enable more than 3000 Managed Service Providers in offering data backup service. We understand that it&#8217;s important to enable web hosting </li>&#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/its-a-wrap-what-we-learnt-from-cpanel-bootcamp-2011/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></ul>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s was great to meet many web hosting and managed hosting service providers at the cPanel automation bootcamp, Austin, TX and needless to say, we all had nice time and made new friends. Her&#8217;s a small recap of what we&#8217;ve learn&#8217;t from the bootcamp and what we&#8217;ve on plate for web hosting and managed hosting providers for offering backup service to their customers.</p>
<ul>
<li>Vembu has tremendous experience in serving a channel of service providers and as of today we enable more than 3000 Managed Service Providers in offering data backup service. We understand that it&#8217;s important to enable web hosting and managed hosting providers to offer backup service through which they offer true value by protecting customer&#8217;s data and also generate recurring revenue</li>
<li>StoreGrid backup software tightly integrates with cPanel and allows backup and restores to be performed at root / reseller / domain user level. This means backup and restores of domains  can be managed easily by domains users right from their cPanel user interface.</li>
<li>Integration with WHMCS and Ubersmith allows hosting providers for end to end automation right from billing to provisioning</li>
<li>Granular restores are important when a user lost a file or just a database got corrupted. We also allow full domain restores where the entire domain can be restored fully with a single click</li>
<li>On top of all, StoreGrid supports quicker backups and faster restores which makes it a trusted solution for hosting providers.</li>
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<p>and lot&#8217;s more&#8230;</p>
<p>We allow a 30 day free full featured version of StoreGrid to be downloaded and tested and please contact me at lenin AT vembu DOT com to get your FREE trial today and also for pricing. Our 24 x7  technical support team can help you in setting up and getting you started with the evaluation. With StoreGrid we allow hosting providers to offer enterprise class backup service at a price point suited for small business.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
<p><em><a title="Vembu Pro Online Backup Service" href="http://pro.vembu.com/" target="_blank">Vembu Pro</a> Online Backup Service allows Value Added Resellers and Managed Service Providers to offer online backup service to their customers without worrying about storage or hardware infrastructure.</em></p>
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		<title>Day# 1 at cPanel Bootcamp, Austin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cPanel automation bootcamp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bare metal recovery]]></category>
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<p>If you are in the web hosting industry you probably would have heard &#8216;cPanel&#8217; very frequently. We had some active developments with the cPanel team and now we have a complete integrated solution with cPanel / WHM for managing domain backup and restore.</p>
<p>So, here we are at the cPanel automation bootcamp to showcase StoreGrid Hosting Provider Edition, designed for Hosting and Cloud Service Providers to deliver full and self-managed backup and recovery services. With extended support for cPanel/WHM integration and effortless bare-metal recoveries with P2V migrations.</p>
<p>We came to Austin yesterday and had a tiring flight from SFO. I woke </p>&#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/first-day-at-cpanel-bootcamp-austin/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></div>]]></description>
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<p>If you are in the web hosting industry you probably would have heard &#8216;cPanel&#8217; very frequently. We had some active developments with the cPanel team and now we have a complete integrated solution with cPanel / WHM for managing domain backup and restore.</p>
<p>So, here we are at the cPanel automation bootcamp to showcase StoreGrid Hosting Provider Edition, designed for Hosting and Cloud Service Providers to deliver full and self-managed backup and recovery services. With extended support for cPanel/WHM integration and effortless bare-metal recoveries with P2V migrations.</p>
<p>We came to Austin yesterday and had a tiring flight from SFO. I woke up early today, got ready for event and took a cab to the Sheraton Hotel to check-in and registrations. Wait a minute! isn&#8217;t the event starting only at 3 PM central? yeah!, we realized that after we reached the venue. To our surprise there were people already buzzing on the lobby wearing T-shirts with some technical names on it (just like us). We had some really good conversations with some of the folks attending the bootcamp.</p>
<p>I have my cPanel TV Live session tomorrow Tuesday 11am CST. I plan to walk through StoreGrid Hosting Edition overview and competitive advantage. I&#8217;m joined by Srivatsan Venkatesan from Vembu (Vice-President, Product Management).</p>
<p>As we get in to the final stretch of preparation &#8211; I&#8217;m really hoping to see many of our partners, cPanel users and of course with our competitive brothers and sisters!</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
<p><em><a title="Vembu Pro Online Backup Service" href="http://pro.vembu.com/" target="_blank">Vembu Pro</a> Online Backup Service allows Value Added Resellers and Managed Service Providers to offer online backup service to their customers without worrying about storage or hardware infrastructure.</em></p>
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		<title>Vembu Technologies acquires CloudNucleus – Enhances Cloud Based Data Protection services for Managed Service Providers and Managed Hosting Providers</title>
		<link>http://blog.vembu.com/vembu-technologies-acquires-cloudnucleus-enhances-cloud-based-data-protection-services-for-managed-service-providers-and-managed-hosting-providers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We are really excited to <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/vembu-acquires-cloudnucleus-enhances-data-protection-service-with-cdp-business-continuity-1558568.htm" target="_blank">announce</a> our recent acquisition of <a title="Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity" href="http://www.cloudnucleus.com" target="_blank">CloudNucleus</a> – an expert Continuous Data Protection technology developer with special focus on Disaster Recovery services for Windows, Linux and Virtual environments. We have known the CloudNucleus team for quite some time now and bumped into each other quite often since both the companies were catering towards the same segment with the vision to offer cost effective Backup and Disaster Recovery services. The synergy between our two companies was great and we thought it would greatly benefit our present channel of 2600+ Managed Service Providers and Managed Hosting Providers to &#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/vembu-technologies-acquires-cloudnucleus-enhances-cloud-based-data-protection-services-for-managed-service-providers-and-managed-hosting-providers/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are really excited to <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/vembu-acquires-cloudnucleus-enhances-data-protection-service-with-cdp-business-continuity-1558568.htm" target="_blank">announce</a> our recent acquisition of <a title="Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity" href="http://www.cloudnucleus.com" target="_blank">CloudNucleus</a> – an expert Continuous Data Protection technology developer with special focus on Disaster Recovery services for Windows, Linux and Virtual environments. We have known the CloudNucleus team for quite some time now and bumped into each other quite often since both the companies were catering towards the same segment with the vision to offer cost effective Backup and Disaster Recovery services. The synergy between our two companies was great and we thought it would greatly benefit our present channel of 2600+ Managed Service Providers and Managed Hosting Providers to better compete in the Disaster Recovery services market.</p>
<p>Addition of CloudNucleus strengthens our current Vembu offerings in the areas of Failover virtualization, P2V (Physical to Virtual Migration), P2P (Dis-similar hardware migration), Disk Imaging and Bare Metal Restore. Our partners have always been asking us for improvised support for offering enterprise class Disaster Recovery services and by this acquisition we proved our commitment to the channel one more time. Here’s what our CEO, Sekar Vembu said regarding this acquisition, “This combination is all about accelerating our ability to bring key functionality to our MSP and MHP partners. We&#8217;re combining best-of-breed storage technologies, two winning employee populations with similar reputations for customer focus, and two experienced management teams with highly complementary visions for the future of information management. This represents a significant win for the companies, our collective customers, employees and partners”</p>
<p>We intend to integrate the CloudNucleus technology offering into StoreGrid and deliver a unified Data Protection and Disaster Recovery software. We expect to have the first release of the integrated solution available during the end of October 2011.</p>
<p>&#8220;CloudNucleus&#8217; employees, customers, and partners will see tremendous benefits from Vembu&#8217;s extensive partner community, expertise in data protection solutions for the MSP market, global presence and overall financial strength,” said Srivatsan Venkatesan, CloudNucleus’ founder and CEO.  We will now have additional resources to further accelerate the development of solutions that fulfill our mission of delivering technology that enables our partners to deliver truly differentiated services to their customers.” added Venkatesan</p>
<p>Srivatsan Venkatesan will be joining the Vembu team as VP – Product Management and drive the Vembu’s product development initiatives and enhance StoreGrid’s support in the areas of Virtualization backup, Continuous Data Protection and instant failover virtualization during disaster recovery.</p>
<p>“This would add a great tool to our company’s present Backup and Disaster Recovery Offerings” said Ed Monacelli, president of EMCS, “We are upgrading all our clients over to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans and are confident to see an increased revenue from this integrated solution of Vembu and CloudNucleus”</p>
<p>We are confident that this acquisition will add more value to our existing channel partner base of both Vembu and CloudNucleus and enhance our core competencies to go after new set of customers. In case you have any questions regarding this acquisition, please feel free to mail us at storegrid-partner AT vembu DOT com</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
<p><em><a title="Vembu Pro Online Backup Service" href="http://pro.vembu.com/" target="_blank">Vembu Pro</a> Online Backup Service allows Value Added Resellers and Managed Service Providers to offer online backup service to their customers without worrying about storage or hardware infrastructure.</em></p>
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		<title>Vembu Partner Survey – and the winners are…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We would like to take this opportunity to thank every one of our Partners who helped us with the survey by providing their valuable input. Please note that all your feedback is taken into consideration. As promised, please find below the list of winners who have won Apple iPad v 2, 64GB, Wi-Fi. One of our colleagues from the marketing team will soon reach out to you to discuss the shipping details for the same.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ed Monacelli</strong></li>
<li><strong>Matt Dryfhout</strong></li>
<li><strong>John Hankers</strong></li>
<li><strong>Altus Koorts</strong></li>
<li><strong>Dennis Levesque</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>We once again congratulate the winners and hope they are going to enjoy the Apple &#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/vembu-partner-survey-and-the-winners-are/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We would like to take this opportunity to thank every one of our Partners who helped us with the survey by providing their valuable input. Please note that all your feedback is taken into consideration. As promised, please find below the list of winners who have won Apple iPad v 2, 64GB, Wi-Fi. One of our colleagues from the marketing team will soon reach out to you to discuss the shipping details for the same.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ed Monacelli</strong></li>
<li><strong>Matt Dryfhout</strong></li>
<li><strong>John Hankers</strong></li>
<li><strong>Altus Koorts</strong></li>
<li><strong>Dennis Levesque</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>We once again congratulate the winners and hope they are going to enjoy the Apple iPad v 2.</p>
<p>Others fret not! We&#8217;ll sending out more of such surveys in future and you could be the one next time. And yeah, your free license as promised will be credited to your Partner Zone account.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu      Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose      product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities. </em></p>
<p><em><a title="Vembu Pro Online Backup Service" href="http://pro.vembu.com/" target="_blank">Vembu Pro</a> Online Backup Service allows Value Added Resellers and Managed Service     Providers to offer online backup service to their customers without     worrying about storage or hardware infrastructure.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://home.vembu.com/">Vembu Home</a> is the only <strong>FREE </strong>consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your <a href="http://home.vembu.com/">FREE COPY</a> now</em></p>
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		<title>Meet us at Interop– Las Vegas – May 8th to 12th 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We will be exhibiting at Interop Las Vegas which will be held from May 8th to 12th 2011 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. If you happen to be in Las Vegas or in its vicinity during that time, please do stop by; we&#8217;re at booth #614. We would love to talk to each one of you in person. We will be demonstrating some of the latest advancements of StoreGrid in the cloud space. Contrary to “Whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, we&#8217;re sure that this technology hangover is bound to stay on for a long time, no matter wherever &#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/meet-us-at-interop-las-vegas-may-8th-to-12th-2011/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We will be exhibiting at Interop Las Vegas which will be held from May 8th to 12th 2011 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. If you happen to be in Las Vegas or in its vicinity during that time, please do stop by; we&#8217;re at booth #614. We would love to talk to each one of you in person. We will be demonstrating some of the latest advancements of StoreGrid in the cloud space. Contrary to “Whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, we&#8217;re sure that this technology hangover is bound to stay on for a long time, no matter wherever you are.</p>
<p>The folks at Interop sent us a special promo code through which you can get FREE EXPO PASS or 25% off on the conference pass. If you would like to get one, email us at storegrid-partner AT vembu DOT com</p>
<p><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/infrastructure/reviews/229401816?pgno=3"><img class="aligncenter" title="Best of Interop 2011 - Vembu StoreGrid" src="http://www.vembu.com/images/best-of-interop.gif" alt="Vembu StoreGrid - Best of Interop 2011" width="247" height="180" /></a></p>
<p>BTW, did you know ! Vembu Technologies is also recognized as finalist for Best of Interop 2011. <a title="Vembu StoreGrid - Online Backup Software" href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/infrastructure/reviews/229401816?pgno=3">InformationWeek Analytics</a> and Interop Las Vegas 2011 Recognize Vembu Technologies for Market Leading Innovation. The Best of Interop Judging Committee, comprised of InformationWeek Analytics editors and analysts, reviewed over 100 entries and selected finalists based on the products with the most significant technical impact that are helping to move business technology forward.</p>
<p>See you there at the event and let us all share our experiences.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu     Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose     product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities. </em></p>
<p><em><a title="Vembu Pro Online Backup Service" href="http://pro.vembu.com/" target="_blank">Vembu Pro</a> Online Backup Service allows Value Added Resellers and Managed Service    Providers to offer online backup service to their customers without    worrying about storage or hardware infrastructure.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://home.vembu.com/">Vembu Home</a> is the only <strong>FREE </strong>consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your <a href="http://home.vembu.com/">FREE COPY</a> now</em></p>
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		<title>Frustrated from frequent unjustified price rise and product upgrades that never materialize?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[competitive upgrade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Find out how to put a stop to this trauma by choosing Vembu’s time tested backup offerings. We welcome new Partners to the Vembu family with a <strong>Competitive Upgrade Offer</strong>. It’s been quite some time since we announced a competitive upgrade offer for customers who are evaluating StoreGrid and we believe now is the right time to get one out. Recently some good developments have been implemented in StoreGrid in terms of product features and functionalities like support for backing up VMware, Windows Hyper-V environments, Disk Imaging, Bare Metal Restore, Physical to Virtual Conversion etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Some of the key &#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/frustrated-from-frequent-unjustified-price-rise-and-product-upgrades-that-never-materialize/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Find out how to put a stop to this trauma by choosing Vembu’s time tested backup offerings. We welcome new Partners to the Vembu family with a <strong>Competitive Upgrade Offer</strong>. It’s been quite some time since we announced a competitive upgrade offer for customers who are evaluating StoreGrid and we believe now is the right time to get one out. Recently some good developments have been implemented in StoreGrid in terms of product features and functionalities like support for backing up VMware, Windows Hyper-V environments, Disk Imaging, Bare Metal Restore, Physical to Virtual Conversion etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Some of the key benefits you get by partnering with Vembu StoreGrid are listed below:</p>
<ul>
<li>Benefit from a stable product with a comprehensive feature set that is built from the ground up to meet the requirements of Managed Service Providers and Value Added Resellers.</li>
<li>No need to worry about price or cost fluctuation like other competitors in the market as we have priced the product just right and that will allow MSP’s to offer enterprise class online backup service at a price that is well suited for SMBs.</li>
<li>Multi-tenant architecture with extensive ‘Reseller Management Feature’ with individual access roles for MSPs (Administrator), Reseller, Customer (IT Manager) and Clients.</li>
<li>Support for backing up Windows Hyper-V and VMware servers where you can take a snapshot of individual Guest OS. Priced at only USD 48 / socket per year &#8211; You can run an average of 12 – 15 VMs in a socket.</li>
<li>Extensive marketing support from a company who understands the MSP market much better than its competitors. Free product training, Successful Business case for MSPs, Free Marketing Materials etc.</li>
<li>Support for Web Services APIs to automate your billing and invoicing through any third party billing application.</li>
<li>Native Integration with PSA and RMM platforms like ConnectWise, AutoTask  and many more</li>
<li>Simplified Adobe Flex based Interface for Desktops and Laptops.</li>
<li>We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner – Gold Competency in ISV, VMware Technology Alliance Partner and Redhat ISV ready Partner. This ensures we stay in tune with the latest technology updates and our product supports all the latest applications and new developments like Microsoft Exchange 2010 (Mail Level Restore), SharePoint 2010 etc.</li>
<li>And a lot more…</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have made an investment in a competitor’s product and are suffering from frequent price rises without sufficient justification or  inadequate feature set, <strong>this competitive upgrade will ease your move by 50% off your purchase</strong>. By partnering with Vembu, you can now benefit from a software solution that is trusted by more than 2500 Managed Service Providers worldwide.</p>
<p>Last but not least, you can enjoy our fanatical support (24 x 7 x 365) through Phone, email, Chat, IM, Remote etc… which means we allow you to focus on improving your business and profit margins while our support team helps you out with any technical assistance that you might need. You can check out some of our <a title="Vembu StoreGrid Case Studies" href="http://storegrid.vembu.com/case-studies.php" target="_blank">successful case studies here</a>.</p>
<p>In case you need more details on this offer you can immediately call 1-432-558-0055 or send us an email to storegrid-partner AT vembu DOT com with the subject line “competitive upgrade”.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu    Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose    product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities. </em></p>
<p><em><a title="Vembu Pro Online Backup Service" href="http://pro.vembu.com/" target="_blank">Vembu Pro</a> Online Backup Service allows Value Added Resellers and Managed Service   Providers to offer online backup service to their customers without   worrying about storage or hardware infrastructure.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://home.vembu.com/">Vembu Home</a> is the only <strong>FREE </strong>consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your <a href="http://home.vembu.com/">FREE COPY</a> now</em></p>
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		<title>Vembu Home v1.0 beta supports File Synchronization &amp; File Sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We just rolled out a new version of <a href="http://home.vembu.com">Vembu Home</a> that has important new features which will make it easier to synchronize your data across multiple computers/devices and also allow you to share files with your friends and colleagues online.</p>
<p>With Vembu Home Synchronization feature, you can seamlessly work on a document from your office PC or your home PC without having to copy files back and forth. Once you add a document to be synchronized with Vembu Home, the document will be automatically synchronized to any number of devices you want the document to be available.</p>
<p><strong>Configuring Vembu Home </strong>&#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/vembu-home-v1-0-beta-supports-file-synchronization-file-sharing/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We just rolled out a new version of <a href="http://home.vembu.com">Vembu Home</a> that has important new features which will make it easier to synchronize your data across multiple computers/devices and also allow you to share files with your friends and colleagues online.</p>
<p>With Vembu Home Synchronization feature, you can seamlessly work on a document from your office PC or your home PC without having to copy files back and forth. Once you add a document to be synchronized with Vembu Home, the document will be automatically synchronized to any number of devices you want the document to be available.</p>
<p><strong>Configuring Vembu Home to <a href="http://home.vembu.com/features.php?f=2">sync</a> your data</strong></p>
<p>After installing Vembu Home in your computer, register for free Vembu Home account by accessing Vembu Home Agent console,</p>
<div style="text-align:center;padding:5px"><img src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/register.JPG" alt="Register for free Vembu Home Account" /></div>
<p>Once you complete with the registration process, login to Vembu Home Agent Console.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;padding:5px"><img src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/login.JPG" alt="Login" /></div>
<p>Once logged in, you don&#8217;t have to use the Vembu Home Agent Console to synchronize your files. You can simply sync your data right from your Windows explorer as you browse files.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;padding:5px"><img src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/filesync.jpg" alt="Sync with Vembu Home" /></div>
<p>Right-click on a file or folder from your Windows Explorer, select <strong>Sync with Vembu Home</strong> and then choose either one of the following option to synchronize your data across multiple devices.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;padding:5px"><img src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/filesync-copy.jpg" alt="Sync from current location" /></div>
<p><em>Copy to sync folder</em> &#8211; Choosing this option will copy the selected file or folder for synchronization to the Vembu Sync folder. You need to manually do this every time you change the file in the original location so that the changes would be synchronized to the Vembu Home Cloud and subsequently to other devices you have configured.</p>
<p><em>Sync from current location</em> &#8211; Choosing this option will include the selected file or folder for Synchronization from its current location – without copying to the Vembu Sync folder. If you modify the file, the synchronization process will be automatically synchronize the modified content to the Vembu Home Cloud and subsequently to other devices you have configured.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://home.vembu.com/features.php?f=3">Sharing</a> files Online through Vembu Home</strong></p>
<p>If you need to share some of your files with your friends or colleagues online, Vembu Home is a simple and secure tool to achieve this. You can upload and share files online from your desktop with a single click.</p>
<p>Right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, select &#8220;Sync with Vembu Home&#8221; and then choose &#8220;Upload and Share&#8221; option to share files online.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;padding:5px"><img src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/online-share.jpg" alt="Online Share" /></div>
<p><em>Upload and share</em> &#8211; Choosing this option will upload the selected file to Vembu Home Cloud and provide you with a link you could share with others.</p>
<p>For more details on Vembu Home&#8217;s File Synchronization &amp; File Sharing features, please refer this document <a href="http://home.vembu.com/features.php">http://home.vembu.com/features.php</a></p>
<p>If you haven’t installed the Vembu Home yet, <a href="http://home.vembu.com/download.php">now</a> is the time to do it. We will be adding more and more exciting features in the near future. If you are an existing user, please find the instructions to upgrade to the latest version of Vembu Home from <a href="http://www.vembu.com/hforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=66">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Arul Prabhu of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a title="Online Backup" href="http://storegrid.vembu.com" target="_blank">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://storegrid.vembu.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://home.vembu.com/">Vembu Home</a> is the only <strong>FREE </strong>consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your <a href="http://home.vembu.com/">FREE COPY</a> now.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sekar Vembu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I am writing this in response to the <a title="Online Backup" href="http://storegrid.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5012" target="_blank">concerns expressed</a> by a few partners of ours on our strategy with <a title="Online Backup Service" href="http://home.vembu.com" target="_blank">Vembu Home online backup service</a> 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.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1152" title="partners-trust-vembu" src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/partners-trust-vembu.jpg" alt="partners-trust-vembu" width="320" height="480" />Firstly, I want to state upfront that I &#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/vembus-channel-strategy-a-reality-check/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am writing this in response to the <a title="Online Backup" href="http://storegrid.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5012" target="_blank">concerns expressed</a> by a few partners of ours on our strategy with <a title="Online Backup Service" href="http://home.vembu.com" target="_blank">Vembu Home online backup service</a> 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.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1152" title="partners-trust-vembu" src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/partners-trust-vembu.jpg" alt="partners-trust-vembu" width="320" height="480" />Firstly, I want to state upfront that I do not like to beat around the bush to gain some PR advantage. We have no interest in succeeding by hook or crook. We want to succeed by adding true value to our partners and customers and we expect our partners to also want to succeed by adding true value to their customers. I personally hate to make money from anyone who did not gain some value through our product and services. That is one reason I absolutely do not pitch our business to venture capitalists as I do not want to be obliged to investors and do things against my philosophy just to provide returns to them.</p>
<p>Let me first do a reality check on our current business model:</p>
<p>1. 95% of our revenues are generated by our close to 2000 partners. 90% to 95% of these partners are managed service providers who host StoreGrid in their data center infrastructure and offer a managed online backup service to their customers. Between 5% and 10% of our partners would be hosting providers who provide a backup service to their cloud hosting, managed hosting or co-location customers. I want to mention that in our current business model there is no commitment, in terms of meeting some sales targets, we expect from partners &#8211; they simply purchase licenses upfront and get a volume discount or purchase licenses as and when they add a customer to their managed backup service. We do not insist on any long term contract or anything. Our partners continue to stay with us because they see value in continuing with us and not because of any contractual obligations.</p>
<p>2. 80% of our partners service customers with less than 100 employees. Most of our partners act as the outsourced IT manager taking care of everything IT for their customers and most of these customers may not even have an internal IT person and fully trust the local MSP for their IT needs. It is also important to mention that we have no visibility into our partners&#8217; customers. We do not even know who these customers are. In the last 4 years of us focusing on this business model, we have never had a situation of a customer of our partner contacting us to purchase our product directly from us. So there is no question of competing against our partners by undercutting them by directly selling to their end customers.</p>
<p>3. Our partners have anything between 10 and 500 customers spread equally across all sizes. 50% of our partners have converted less than 10% of their customers to StoreGrid based managed backup service and 26% say they have converted between 10% and 25% of their customers to StoreGrid based managed backup service. Though we are not exactly sure why our partners have not been able to convert more of their existing customers, I am sure our partners are doing their best to get them converted and it will just be matter of time majority of our partners&#8217; customers are moved to StoreGrid.</p>
<p>4. 92% of our partners say StoreGrid as a product is either excellent or good. We have been adding several new features to the product and would continue to do so and improve the value we offer to our partners and their end customers. Hopefully, as StoreGrid evolves and matures, our partners would be able to convert more of their customers going forward.</p>
<p>5. On the quality of technical support too, we have been rated highly by our partners &#8211; the average rating being 4.3/5.0. I want to highlight that this is about the free technical support we provide to our partners as part of their subscription license fee we charge them. We do offer premium technical support with telephone support and guaranteed response times etc. No wonder the number of takers for that is rather small considering our basic free support is one of the best in the industry.</p>
<p>6. It has taken four years for us to get to 2000 partners. We have spent considerable amount of money and resources in acquiring these partners. Our success depends upon the ability of our existing partners to add more and more customers to their StoreGrid based managed backup service and our ability to add thousands of new partners every year.</p>
<p>We as a business have to keep looking for diversification into different market segments and drive growth with the aim for taking a leadership position in this data protection domain. Indeed we like our current business model of serving the small business customers through our dedicated channel partners. We will continue to invest and grow this market going forward. But as StoreGrid evolves, we believe we have a chance to position StoreGrid in the medium sized business segment. Most of our ongoing strategy is based on feedback from our existing partners/customers and also some of our prospective partners and customers. Let me talk about our immediate diversification strategies and why this is not a strategy to compete with our partners or sell directly to their customers.<br />
<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Why Vembu Home Online Backup Service to Consumers</strong></p>
<p>Consider the fact that we have signed up close to 2000 partners in the last 4 years and that all our active partners put together have converted possibly 30,000 or more business customers to their StoreGrid based managed online backup service. The two well-known current brand names in <a href="http://www.vembu.com" target="_blank">online backup</a> domain, Mozy and Carbonite started off by targeting consumers and spent quite a bit of money in building a brand amongst consumers. It is a different matter that they may not be really viable, long term businesses trying to treat backup as a commodity for even business customers. But by lieu of building a brand amongst consumers they get lot more attention from the press, the bloggers and even amongst the MSPs than they deserve. That is the reality. We can only build a brand by focusing on the consumer market or by focusing on the large enterprises. It is not easy to build a brand by focusing on the SMB market that too through the channel. Why is a brand important to us? It is important because it will reduce the cost of acquiring a lead for us and it will also help us convert more of our leads into partners as it will give the prospective partners more confidence in partnering with a reasonably well known brand than dealing with what may be perceived as an obscure little company. It is a different matter that we feel we have a very good product backed up by a highly committed technical support. When it comes to signing up large number of customers or partners, a recognizable brand name definitely matters. By providing services to consumers we want to build a brand name in the cloud storage domain.</p>
<p>I see no reason why our MSP partners should feel threatened by our consumer focused initiative. By definition, MSPs focus on business customers who tend to outsource their IT as they see better value in an MSP managing their IT rather than themselves. The data I have provided about our partners establish that very clearly. Of course there are always some businesses which are confused. They may have some IT capability internally and they may look at the commodity storage services available and start comparing them with the MSP provided IT service. Either the MSP has to educate such customers about the value they bring to the table or just let the customer try the commodity service and figure it out for themselves. For the Vembu Partners, even if we do not provide a commodity online backup services to the consumers, these businesses are going to compare the MSP services with the other competitive consumer focused commodity services anyway. The business customer who is confused and does not see the value the local MSP bring to the table is anyway lost and there is no point in MSPs trying to win them over. If someone does not see the value it is better to not win them over as a customer as it will only result in unhappy customers because of mismatched expectations.</p>
<p>Also, our Vembu Home backup service <a title="Vembu Home Online Backup License Agreement" href="http://home.vembu.com/tos.php" target="_blank">license agreement</a> clearly precludes businesses from using the service. Even those business users signing up as individual consumers would have anyway signed up with a competitor. Vembu, as a business, wants to win the mind share of such business users too. Once we win their mind share, there is a distinct possibility that they realize that commodity online services may not be all that perfect for businesses (as they are for consumers). And they may be more willing to see the value the local MSP bring to the table. When that happens we surely want to provide those businesses as a lead to our MSP partners. The modalities of how that will happen have to be worked out. We need to start somewhere and hopefully it will all work out as we plan.</p>
<p>Of course, there are some MSP partners who claim they also want to go after the consumer market. The same logic as business customers applies here too. If there really is a consumer need which the MSP tries to fulfill and the consumer sees value, it is fine. But if the consumer does not see the value the MSP offers, then she is anyway going to go with a commodity service. Why cannot it be Vembu? Why should Vembu give up serving that consumer and win their mind share if it can help us in some intangible way. That is what we think. Majority of our MSP partners focus on business customers. We do not believe it is possible for the MSPs to easily offer a commodity service to consumers. If they want to do that they have to become SaaS vendors themselves by creating and owning the core IP etc. This is the reality we believe in and we need to follow a strategy based on what we believe in. Commodity consumer offering will always be part of a larger offering as it is impossible to sustain a business by only offering commodity services to consumers. It is always offered with a larger strategic goal in mind. If some MSPs want to also offer commodity services to consumers they cannot do that simply by licensing the IP for the core services from a vendor. They have to own the IP themselves and in that case they are no longer an MSP.</p>
<p><strong>Why Vembu Pro Online Backup Services<br />
</strong><br />
Since the time we released our <a title="Online Backup Software" href="http://storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php" target="_blank">StoreGrid Service Provider Edition</a> for MSPs, we have always had prospective partners express interest in reselling a managed backup service hosted by Vembu rather than hosting it themselves and managing them. As a vendor we initially decided to be a pure software vendor as we did not want to invest in building our own data center and the associated NOC. We have always been quick to offer options to our partners including having the ability to host StoreGrid in &#8220;Infrastructure as a Cloud Service&#8221; like <a title="Amazon Web Services" href="http://aws.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services</a>. Now that we have enough experience in working with cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services we believe we now are in a position to host StoreGrid in Amazon Web Services and offer business an online backup service. The Vembu Pro online backup service will be offered exclusively through the channel. That means it is just an extension to our current business model where we license StoreGrid to our MSP partners for them to host and provide a service. Even our existing MSP partners have a choice now. They can offer options to their customers where in the backup is done to their data center or if the customer chooses the backup can be done to the Amazon Cloud. We probably are the first serious vendor focused on the channel providing such a capability. Backing up to the Amazon Cloud, specifically the S3 infrastructure, can be such a compelling selling point to the MSPs. At least that is what we are hoping for.</p>
<p>As I said, Vembu Pro will be offered exclusively through the channel. And we are also putting together an SMB lead generation program through which we want to provide SMBs interested in backing up to the Amazon Web Services as leads to our partners. These are in early stages but it is just a matter of time before all these things come together. And believe me when I say Vembu Home for consumers is an important component of this whole strategy and it is not meant to compete with our partners by undercutting them.</p>
<p><strong>What about StoreGrid Professional Edition &#8211; the on-premise or branch office backup solution?<br />
</strong><br />
Until now we have never had to face a question about our <a title="on-premise backup software" href="http://storegrid.com/online-backup/network-backup.php" target="_blank">StoreGrid Professional Edition</a>. It has been there even before the release of our Service Provider Edition. So far, we never actively marketed it. But we do get sales from businesses that is looking for a self managed on-premise backup solution or other larger businesses for consolidating their branch office backups to a centralized data center. Though there are direct sales from businesses we also have about 50 resellers actively reselling the StoreGrid Professional Edition. We have a Channel program for that too and a few of our MSP partners also resell StoreGrid Professional Edition apart from offering an online backups service to their customers. We never really paid much attention to selling the StoreGrid Professional Edition and whatever has been happening is on its own. We are evolving StoreGrid Professional Edition recently and we believe it is just a matter of time before we are in a position to take on the likes of <a title="backup software" href="http://www.symantec.com/business/products/family.jsp?familyid=backupexec" target="_blank">Symantec Backup Exec</a> &#8211; by offering compelling features at 1/5th or 1/10th the price. We will then actively seek resellers to push StoreGrid Professional Edition to customers who want to stick to on-premise backups. As I said we do have a channel program already in place which can be fine tuned and evolved based on market requirements. Here again our main strategy is to involve the channel wherever it makes sense. But there are these occasional online sales which happen across the world on its own. If ever such a sale happens because of some effort from our channel partner we will surely compensate them for that. And this is the type of guarantee I can provide the channel as of now. We will also be seriously looking at some kind of customer registration program wherein a channel partner can register a customer with us and we then make sure any direct communication from the customer is always routed through the channel partner. We do have such a program in a small scale in India with a reseller.</p>
<p>I sincerely hope this long post is treated as an honest effort from our side to dispel any doubts in the minds of our partners about our ongoing strategy. I am sure there are some of our partners who are not going to be entirely happy. To them I want to say that we are as open and transparent as it can get. We say things as they are however uncomfortable the facts are. End of the day, our long term success can only be guaranteed only if we can continuously provide value to the end customers. Any strategy which revolves around an assumption of customer ignorance cannot last long and as a company we are uncomfortable in forging any strategy based on an assumption of customer ignorance.</p>
<p>I am open to honest feedback and suggestions based on market reality where the internet and the social media have turned all the existing business models upside down.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Sekar Vembu of Vembu Technologies.  Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid,  powers the <a href="http://www.vembu.com/" target="_blank">online  backup</a> services of a large  number of service providers across the  globe. Besides <a href="http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/online-backup.html" target="_blank">remote  backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of  workstations and servers at  various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
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		<title>RIP &#8211; Floppy Drive, Will the Tape Drive soon follow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1027" title="RIP - Floppy Drive, Will the Tape Drive soon follow?" src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/RIP.jpg" alt="RIP - Floppy Drive, Will the Tape Drive soon follow?" width="115" height="185" />Finally the day has come where people are no longer in need of Floppy Disks nor do they even care about its existence.  Floppy Drives enjoyed nearly three decades as a popular and ubiquitous form of data storage and data transfer medium from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s. Yes, we all at one point of time used Floppy Drives and praised it usability when there was no alternate solution at that time which was cost effective and reliable. Now they have been largely superseded by USB Flash Drives, External Hard Drives, DVDs and Memory Cards.  Many companies realized &#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/rip-floppy-drive-will-the-tape-drive-soon-follow/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1027" title="RIP - Floppy Drive, Will the Tape Drive soon follow?" src="http://blog.vembu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/RIP.jpg" alt="RIP - Floppy Drive, Will the Tape Drive soon follow?" width="115" height="185" />Finally the day has come where people are no longer in need of Floppy Disks nor do they even care about its existence.  Floppy Drives enjoyed nearly three decades as a popular and ubiquitous form of data storage and data transfer medium from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s. Yes, we all at one point of time used Floppy Drives and praised it usability when there was no alternate solution at that time which was cost effective and reliable. Now they have been largely superseded by USB Flash Drives, External Hard Drives, DVDs and Memory Cards.  Many companies realized its fall and dropped Floppy drives from their products with Apple leading the way in 1998, Dell following in 2003, HP in 2009, and the latest being <a title="Sony bid farewell to Floppy" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/26/sony-to-stop-manufacturing-floppy-discs-after-30-years/" target="_blank">Sony that bid farewell</a> to 3.5 inch Floppy Disk .</p>
<p>Now, I see a similar pattern with Tape Drives. Well…Tape Drives were once regarded as a long term data storage medium primarily for archiving purposes as it is relatively inexpensive and afforded a reliable way to store data for the long term. But is Tape sufficient for today’s data protection and archival needs where restoration of data during a crisis has to be be done in near real time? Businesses require effective and reliable<a title="Data Backup and Recovery Software" href="http://www.storegrid.com" target="_blank"> Data Backup and Disaster Recovery</a> mechanisms that can guarantee data recovery in near real time to assure business continuity in the event of a major data disaster.</p>
<p>Listed below are some of the major disadvantages of Tape based backup solution according to <a title="Problems with Tape Based Backup" href="http://www.crcdataprotection.com/solutions/tape_problems.asp " target="_blank">CRC Data Protection</a>.</p>
<p>1)      Time Consuming<br />
2)      Vulnerable to damage, theft or loss<br />
3)      Unprotected<br />
4)      Inefficient in managing and administering large data backup sets<br />
5)      Platform Dependant<br />
6)      High Recovery Failure rates as high as 20 – 50 percent, making it an unreliable form of data backup.</p>
<p>One more important thing to note here is the trend that both Floppy Drive and Tape Drive share amongst themselves.<br />
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&amp;up__property=empty&amp;up__search_terms=Tape+Drive%7CFloppy+Drive&amp;up__location=empty&amp;up__category=0&amp;up__time_range=empty&amp;up__compare_to_category=false&amp;synd=open&amp;w=650&amp;h=350&amp;lang=en-US&amp;title=Google+Insights+for+Search&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&amp;output=js" type="text/javascript"></script></p>
<p>Do you see that trend there? The above insight was captured from <a title="Google Insights" href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#" target="_blank">Google Insights</a> and it has the innate ability to capture the rise and fall of a product in the market.</p>
<p>In today’s market dynamics, the total cost of ownership for tape based backup or archiving is much more than using Disk Drives. On top of that backup and restore from/to tape drives can consume a huge amount of time. Tape Drives, unlike completely automated disk based <a title="Online Backup" href="http://www.storegrid.com" target="_blank">online backups</a> or on-premise backups, requires lots of human intervention to periodically put in the new tape and replace &amp; label the old one, and if not properly done, might end up in serious data loss.</p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://home.vembu.com/">Vembu Home</a> is the only <strong>FREE </strong>consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your <a href="http://home.vembu.com/">FREE COPY</a> now.</em></p>
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		<title>Life of an MSP &#8211; in less than 30 seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lenin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Google recently <a title="Parisian Love" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU" target="_blank">aired an ad</a> during the Super Bowl using Google searches and a little music &#8211; a great idea!   The ad was Google standard &#8211; classy, minimalist and to the point.   Imagine having your customers come in and design, create ads for your brand and even advertise them for free while you sit back and have fun!   This would be any marketer&#8217;s wildest dream come true.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Google&#8217;s invitation -</p>
<p><em>&#8220;All you need to do is type in your Google searches, pick some music and — presto! — you&#8217;ve got your very own Search Story to share with your </em>&#8230; <a href="http://blog.vembu.com/life-of-an-msp-in-less-than-30-seconds/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google recently <a title="Parisian Love" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU" target="_blank">aired an ad</a> during the Super Bowl using Google searches and a little music &#8211; a great idea!   The ad was Google standard &#8211; classy, minimalist and to the point.   Imagine having your customers come in and design, create ads for your brand and even advertise them for free while you sit back and have fun!   This would be any marketer&#8217;s wildest dream come true.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Google&#8217;s invitation -</p>
<p><em>&#8220;All you need to do is type in your Google searches, pick some music and — presto! — you&#8217;ve got your very own Search Story to share with your friends or showcase on our YouTube channel&#8221;</em></p>
<p>They have created a simple <a title="YouTube Search Stories" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories " target="_blank">video creation tool</a> that allows anyone to create a video based on the Google Searches. We were fiddling with this new tool and ended up creating a video about the typical searches of a managed service provider.</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="660" height="405" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQm4rdN8hxQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="660" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IQm4rdN8hxQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p><em>The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://home.vembu.com/">Vembu Home</a> is the only <strong>FREE </strong>consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your <a href="http://home.vembu.com/">FREE COPY</a> now.</em></p>
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