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Microsoft completes acquisition of Vembu

Well, it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. Vembu Technologies is now a Microsoft Company and this deal with Microsoft has been going on for quite some time now behind the scenes. Microsoft now completes acquisition of Vembu Technologies and its assets for USD 580 Million. This acquisition will enable Microsoft Corporation to offer Data Protection services to SMBs and Mid-Market Enterprise across heterogeneous physical, virtual and application-level environments.  Vembu Technologies is rapidly growing amongst the Channel Partner space and this deal would enable Microsoft’s Channel Partners to offer cost effective online backup service to their customers … Read the rest

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Posted in azure, google, Microsoft, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Retro games making a ‘new’ comeback – in Google logo

Somewhere down my memory lane, I remember playing PAC-MAN as a coin operated arcade game. Can you imagine playing the PAC-MAN game in the Google logo? You can do that today and tomorrow in the special Google ‘Doodle’ that is out.

This special doodle was created in the honor of PAC-MAN’s 30th Birthday, where you can refresh some of your old 8-bit memories and play PAC-MAN in the Google’s first ever playable doodle. You can start playing the game by clicking the ‘Insert Coin’ button on the home page of the Google or wait for few seconds … Read the rest

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Posted in google, Humour, Marketing, Online Backup, Vembu StoreGrid | 4 Comments »

Life of an MSP – in less than 30 seconds

Google recently aired an ad during the Super Bowl using Google searches and a little music – a great idea!   The ad was Google standard – 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’s wildest dream come true.

Here’s Google’s invitation -

“All you need to do is type in your Google searches, pick some music and — presto! — you’ve got your very own Search Story to share with your Read the rest

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Posted in General, google, Humour, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »

How do you want to name your backup service? – Ask Google

Are you offering an Online Backup Service? Then you must have come across a plethora of naming conventions for marketing your backup service. Some people call them Online Backup and some call them Remote Backup, Offsite Backup, Data Backup, Internet Backup, blah blah backup…. Wait! What difference does a naming convention is  going to make to your backup service offering? The answer is simple. Ask Google.

As a Service Provider it becomes necessary to understand the terms that your customer uses and effectively communicate back and Market using the same ‘terms’.  ‘Google Insights’ has the innate ability … Read the rest

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Posted in General, google, Marketing, Online Backup | 3 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

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Posted in General, google | 28 Comments »

I got a Google Wave invite. Now what?

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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

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Want free WiFi? Head to the G.Y.M.

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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

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Posted in Broadband, General, google, Microsoft, Online Backup | No 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

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Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure, Events, google, Microsoft, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Trends | No Comments »

Wave to me

Today I felt like a kid with a new toy – a new toy that was temporarily out of stock (and so my friends couldn’t get at it…yet).

I got a Google Wave invite!

What’s Google Wave? You’ve either been living under a rock or even worse…you have a life!

Anyway, Google Wave is a new product/service form Google that is currently in “Preview Mode”. Preview mode seems to be the mode before Google goes into a never ending Beta. Google Wave aims/claims/hopes to usher in a new way (wave?) of communicating.

The rationale is simple – if email were … Read the rest

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Posted in General, google, Trends, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »

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