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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
Tags: amazon, appengine, azure, David Chappell, force, Microsoft
Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure, Events, google, Microsoft, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Trends | No Comments »
Where does Vembu Home fit…in the grand scheme of things?
We’ve been in business since 2004. Our Service Provider Edition has been available since early 2006.
Our flagship product, StoreGrid runs on over 100,000 computers, and is ‘under the hood’ of about 1,500 service providers across the globe.
StoreGrid is also ‘under the hood’ of our new Vembu Home service.
So, why are we launching our own service?
Are we (shudder) planning on competing with our own service providers? Are we changing our business model?
No, and no.
Hopefully, the following points will place things in perspective…
- We’ve been squarely focused on ‘business backups’ so far. This focus will continue
Tags: Online Backup, Vembu Home
Posted in Amazon Cloud, New Release, Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
Vembu Home is ready to save (backup) the world
After over a year of work (on top of the existing StoreGrid engine), Vembu Home is finally ready.
We took all the time we needed as we wanted Vembu Home to be unlike anything you’ve seen. And we (obviously) think, it is unlike any backup software you’ve seen- and will see for some time, at least.
The obvious question first. Why is Vembu Home different?
a) It’s iPhone inspired user interface is light years ahead of anything else. With its fluidity and intuitiveness, people may actually start enjoying backing up.
b) It is the first and only consumer backup solution … Read the rest
Tags: Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, amazon, Online Backup, Private Beta, Vembu
Posted in Amazon Cloud, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 6 Comments »
I Feel Good
Why? Three reasons
Reason 1:
TechCrunch just reported that Google was experimenting with new minimalist designs. It feels good to say we saw this coming and said so in an earlier post on why Google will kill the I’m feeling lucky button. Like we said, it’s all about the money, honey.
Reason 2:
We (finally) got StoreGrid v3.0 out of the gates. It’s a real beast! Take it for a spin if you haven’t done so already.
Reason 3:
We’re this close to announcing “Vembu Home”. Its iPhone inspired UI is miles ahead of anything you’ve seen (talking of … Read the rest
Posted in Amazon Cloud, General, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Trends, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
New Partner Zone look – inspired by Bing
Over 1,300 online backup service providers use our partner zone. If you’re one of them and have been to the partner zone lately, you probably noticed that it looks different.
If you like the new look, remember to thank Bing!
One of the interesting things that’s helping endear Bing to its users is their interesting library of background images. Take a look – most of those pics are amazing (hint: there’s a control at the bottom right that lets you see other pictures) !
Bing’s homepage design is the polar opposite of Google’s spartan approach to … Read the rest
Tags: bing, Online Backup, Vembu StoreGrid, website design
Posted in Online Backup, Partner Zone, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Backup – Coming soon to a theatre near you
Ah, the price of fame!
Tim McGuire of “The Backup Plan” has been offering his customers ‘Vembu powered’ online backup services since January 2007. His company’s website is http://thebackupplan.com
All’s been well, and Tim has been steadily signing up new customers and backing them up!
However, in recent times, in spite of more business, and a huge traffic surge, a smaller proportion of his website visitors are really keen on his backup services!What happened? Well, Hollywood happened…
I have Google Alerts set up for various terms, and ‘backup’ is obviously one of them. As a consequence, I get snippets on … Read the rest
Tags: backup, Jennifer Lopez, JLo, Online Backup, StoreGrid, The Backup Plan, Vembu
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Spend less to join the world’s largest gathering of hosted services professionals
HostingCon 2009 is a great event for “hosting professionals” interested in learning more about new ideas and technologies (and associated jargon) that can positively affect their businesses!
So what does this have to do with Vembu?
We’re exhibiting at HostingCon 2009! The folks at Hostingcon recently sent us a special HostingCon registration discount code – that we could pass along to our ‘community’. With this, you can get upto $60 off the conference pass required to attend the event. Hostingcon will be held between August 10th & 12th, 2009 at Washington D.C. and 2000 people from over 30 countries … Read the rest
Tags: Event, Hosted service providers, Hostingcon, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in Events, General, Online Backup, Remote Backup | No Comments »
Should you seed your backup? Ask Wolfram Alpha!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months or mistook it for a new version of Wolf, you’ve probably heard of the Wolfram Alpha engine and the (wrong) comparisons to Google.
For starters, Wolfram Alpha is NOT a search engine – its (what they call) a “computational knowledge engine” – it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
Slight detour to StoreGrid…
StoreGrid has a feature called “Local to Remote Migration” (LtoR) wherein you can ‘seed’ a backup server with the 1st full … Read the rest
Tags: LtoR, managed services, Online Backup, StoreGrid, Vembu, Wolfram Alpha
Posted in Broadband, General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Trends | No Comments »
Will the real data please stand up? A look at deduplication in the online backup world
Talk about data deduplication (in the backup and archiving domain) seems to be gaining a fair amount of momentum in the last few years! Most enterprise backup software vendors like Symantec (Veritas), EMC (Avamar) etc. support deduplication in some form or the other – some do deduplication in the source system (that is being backed up) and others do deduplication at the target (backup/storage server). There are also pure “deduplication based storage hardware vendors” like Data Domain who have gained considerable traction in the enterprise.
I am actually quite surprised by the hype around deduplication and the adoption it … Read the rest
Tags: Checksums, Deduplication, Encryption, Online Backup, Remote Backup, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Synthetic Full Backup in the online backup world – Are we inviting trouble?
We have been noticing an increase in the number of ‘prospective partners’ asking if StoreGrid supports the synthetic full backup feature. StoreGrid does not yet support this feature as we have always given a low priority to this feature in the past. But now that it is being frequently asked for, we have started implementing it and hope to have this feature in the next few months. Though we would always like to give our partners as much choice and flexibility while using StoreGrid for their online backup services business, this particular feature has been haunting me for sometime. I … Read the rest
Tags: Data Security, Differential Backup, Encryption, Full Backup, Incremental Backup, Online Backup, Restores, StoreGrid, Synthetic Full Backup, Versioning
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 18 Comments »
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