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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 Technologies partners with Caringo
We’ve been talking to the folks at Caringo for some time now, and have been playing around with each other’s products at our respective labs. We’re now glad to ‘formally’ announce our alliance! A detailed press release can viewed here and a ‘solution page’ explaining the joint solution in more detail is available here.
If you’re short on time, here’s a summary:
You can now store your (backed up) data in your own Cloud or clustered storage using Caringo CAStor. With the help of CAStor you can convert any in house x86 hardware to a clustered storage device. … Read the rest
Tags: caringo, castor, data backup, online backup software, online backup solution, Remote Backup
Posted in Events, SMB, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
How to Win with StoreGrid and the Amazon Cloud!
Vembu StoreGrid announces the production release of StoreGrid Cloud AMI, a virtual appliance for backing up to StoreGrid running on the Amazon Web Services (EC2 and S3).
Simply put, this means that you can start or expand your online backup business with StoreGrid running on the Amazon Cloud computing service (EC2) and store backup data on the Amazon Cloud storage service (S3).
Unlike other backup players that use Cloud services primarily for storage of the backup data, StoreGrid leverages the computing cloud offering of Amazon (EC2) along with the storage service (S3) to create a powerful backup platform for … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Cloud Services, StoreGrid Cloud Backup
Posted in Events, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
HP shutters its Upline online data backup service – Why commoditized online backup service is not a sustainable business
I was contacted by ChannelWeb to comment on HP’s decision to shutter their Upline online data backup business. The gist of what I commented was carried in the article “HP To Shutter Upline Online Storage Backup Service” by ChannelWeb’s Senior Editor Joseph F. Kovar. I felt it’s a good idea to post here my full comments along with my view about commodity online backup services like Carbonite and EMC’s Mozy.
Hope these are not perceived as just wishful thinking on my part. My comments are based on our experience supporting more than 1000 partners offering backup services … Read the rest
Tags: Commodity Storage, HP Upline, IT support, MSP, Online Backup, Sustainable Business, VAR
Posted in CRN, Online Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Carbonite (and Mozy’s) Achilles heel
Online backup service provider Carbonite has been in the news for some time now. They were recently in the news for the wrong reasons. Hot on the heels of the Belkin fiasco , “biased reviews without disclosing affiliations” are getting a hard rap on the knuckles!
The objective of this post is not to debate on companies’ marketing tactics (that too from 2 years ago – I’m not sure if that’s really relevant now) but to point your attention to something else that’s indeed relevant…
Sometimes, we have a VAR/MSP who uses StoreGrid to offer online backup services to … Read the rest
Tags: Bekin, Carbonite, Mozy, online backup service, Pogue, support
Posted in Online Backup, SMB, Trends, Vembu StoreGrid | 6 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 »
Interview by BackupAnyTime
I was interviewed by John O’Neill of Ireland based online backup service provider BackuupAnyTime back in August, 2008. This was part of a series of interviews John was doing with executives from the data backup industry. One of our customers happened to read it recently and he wrote us saying it may be a good idea to post my interview in our blog or at least have a post with a link to that interview. He felt the views I expressed in the interview are quite relevant to our customer and partner base. So here is the link to the … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, interview with Sekar Vembu, online backup services, StoreGrid
Posted in General, Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 4 Comments »
Google will abandon ‘pure SaaS’ and take the ‘software plus services’ route – courtesy Microsoft
So the inevitable is happening. At last, Google seems to be coming around to Microsoft’s software plus services strategy. The news that Google is opening up Google Apps for resellers is the first step in this direction. Pure SaaS sold directly to end customers would only go some distance. There are hundreds of thousands of SMBs out there who prefer to outsource their IT to a local IT Solution provider or a managed service provider (MSP). The only way to reach that segment of the SMB is through these IT solution providers. It was hence inevitable that Google ca… Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, Google Apps, Microsoft Live, Microsoft Online, SaaS, Software as a Service, Software Plus Services
Posted in Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized | No Comments »
May be, I am not so impressed with EMC, after all
I probably have to take back my last blog post where I talked about why I am impressed with EMC on their Decho spin off which they had announced on the 16th November. The primary reason I thought that’s a very good move from EMC is that running Decho, and hence the online backup business Mozy, as a separate independent subsidiary with its own organization would create focus and also its own nimble culture to respond aggressively to the different business requirements of the SMB market segment. This would have been difficult to do internally by EMC itself as … Read the rest
Tags: Decho, EMC, Mozy, Online Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
Why we are impressed with EMC
I should say I am seriously impressed with EMC. I am talking about their announcement of a new subsidiary called Decho, which combines the two acquisitions they had made in the last one year: the online backup services startup, Mozy, and the Personal
Information Management startup, Pi Corp. When EMC acquired Mozy I had thought EMC would use Mozy’s technology to come up with some cloud storage initiative for the enterprise and the mid-market segment. I also felt that would take away Mozy’s focus on consumer and small and medium business segment. Of course, it was probably wishful thinking … Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, Decho, EMC, Mozy, Online Backup, Pi, Picorp, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Trends, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
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