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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 »

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Backup and Restore with StoreGrid

With the release of StoreGrid v3.1 SP1, StoreGrid now supports Exchange Server 2010 database backup and restore. The v3.1 SP1 patch should be installed on both the backup server (and replication server) and in the client machines running StoreGrid v3.1. Remember this patch installs only on top of StoreGrid v3.1 installations.

VSS based backup of Exchange 2010

Unlike Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007 where StoreGrid uses Exchange Server’s ESE API (Extensible Storage Engine) for backing up live Exchange databases, in Exchange 2010 StoreGrid uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Services) based APIs. StoreGrid invokes the “Microsoft Exchange Writer” (comes with the … Read the rest

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Posted in Microsoft, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, VARBusiness, Vembu StoreGrid | 3 Comments »

IT Requirements of SMBs

Cloud ComputingIs the SMB market ripe enough for IT Service Industry, especially in a recession environment?  While large companies had a rough sledding through the recession, SMBs made a relatively good financial progress.

SMBs – Steering well in rough seas

Here’s an excerpt from the May 1st Edition of Wall Street Journal :  “Like most companies, smaller firms used the global crisis to pare costs and trim inventories. They are running lean nowadays and have relatively strong balance sheets, with more cash and less debt as a percentage of market capitalization than do large companies, according to Standard & Poor’s data. … Read the rest

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Posted in Microsoft, Online Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »

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 »

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