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

lenin — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:34:54 +0000

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 for the game to start automatically. One more item to note here, Google has managed to remove the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button, where one of our old prophecy came true, atleast for the next 48 hours.

The PAC-MAN game has not done really bad either – it has kept up with the latest technologies. Since it initially made its appearance as an arcade game, it has made its appearance in PC, XBOX, PSP, and iPhone and now in the Google logo. This leaves me to expect a multi-player Cloud based PAC-MAN game for the PAC-MAN’s 31st Birthday. With Cloud Computing, I can visualize these cloud based retro games in the near future.

For Managed Service Providers, who would like to play PAC-MAN on the Google logo, enter the code ‘Online Backup Software’ on the Google Search box and then press the ‘Insert Coin’ button, aloha! your game is on!

Hurry up! This is only for the next 48 hours, then the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button will come back and put you out of luck!

Google's new doodle PAC MAN

The above post was written by Lenin Srinivasan 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.

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Life of an MSP – in less than 30 seconds

lenin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:14:57 +0000

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 friends or showcase on our YouTube channel”

They have created a simple video creation tool 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.

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New! StoreGrid supports backing up to Amazon QC2 – Quantum Computing Cloud

lenin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:50:15 +0000

We at Vembu Labs have been working closely with the latest breakthroughs in storage and computing technology to keep StoreGrid ahead of the tech curve. For instance, we were among the earliest to adopt Amazon EC2/S3 services for data backups – as soon as Amazon removed the Beta tag on the Amazon Cloud!

Vembu StoreGrid and Amazon Web Services have been working closely on a new technology – and the time is right for us to talk about StoreGrid’s support to Amazon’s QC2 service (Quantum Computing Cloud). This ground breaking solution makes use of qubits (or quantum bits) for manipulating the data states probabilistically and using them for backing up data. This enables users to achieve unprecedented levels of RTO’s and RPO’s using StoreGrid QMI (Quantum Machine Image) for data backups.

Amazon’s Quantum Computing Cloud (QC2) will be hosted on select Availability Zones within Amazon Data Centers. The core of these qubit-enabled backups has been implemented using StoreGrid’s new technology called StoreGrid ET^TM (StoreGrid Entanglement).

This technology relies on Quantum Entanglement phenomenon that allows transfer of data as quantum energy from the client over to the server without traversing the intervening space by manipulating the data states probabilistically. This means that data transfer will take place a whole lot faster to your Quantum Backup Server without being hampered by bandwidth restrictions like T1 lines.

With this new technology, StoreGrid allows data to be transferred to Amazon Quantum Cloud at very high speeds without requiring any internet or physical data connections. This new version of StoreGrid is currently under Beta and is already available to some of our MSP partners who have been actively testing it out.

Here is what our VP, Storage Systems; Sathish Subramanian has to say about this new release.

“We consider this innovative usage of qubits for data backup to be a giant leap in data communication & storage technology and will change how the industry looks at data backups and restores.”

For Service Providers, this new release means that their customers can now backup ANY data to Amazon Quantum Cloud without worrying about storage space and bandwidth etc. We are working on the pricing model for this new technology and expect to release the pricing for this new release by end of this month.

What are you waiting for!

Click here to download your 360 day free trial today!

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This cloud thing is going mainstream

lux — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:47:21 +0000

(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.

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