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Update: SyncBlaze SP Edition Release – Enabling Rapid Deployment!
Just over a couple of months ago, we launched SyncBlaze Service Provider (SP) Edition that attracted many channel partner’s interest. We have been getting fantastic responses from many channel partners with tons of feedback, suggestions and queries. We heard them all loud and clear and with today’s update we hope to have addressed some of those important requests.
We put a lot of work into making our first update to SyncBlaze SP Edition that includes the much awaited downloadable SyncBlaze Server Installer and other configuration options. The update mainly focuses on making the installation procedure easier and more simpler to … Read the rest
Tags: cms, contents, file share, files share, online share, SyncBlaze
Posted in Features, New features, New Release, Release, SP Edition, SyncBlaze | No Comments »
StoreGrid created a win-win solution for Got It Back
“Vembu StoreGrid makes our job way easier because it gives all kinds of option to do basic file backup and specialized backups like exchange, SQL, VM backup etc. You can perform DR scenarios where you can actually restore entire servers within minutes.”
Jason Steuernagel, Got It Back LLC
The Challenges
The advent of virtualization and cloud technologies has changed the Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) picture dramatically in the SMB space. Managed Service Providers offering backup services face a greater challenge to provide Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution which is not only automated completely but also reliable and flexible to … Read the rest
Tags: back up, backups, data protection, Disaster Recovery, offsite backup, Online data backup, service provider, virtualization
Posted in SMB, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No 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
Tags: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server, Exchange Server Backup, Exchange Server Restore, Exchange VSS Backup, Internet Backup, Managed Service Providers, MSP, offsite backup, Online Backup, online backup software, Remote Backup, Vembu Online Backup
Posted in Microsoft, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, VARBusiness, Vembu StoreGrid | 3 Comments »
Storage on a Budget for MSPs!
Offsite backup storage solutions at commodity hardware prices
Folks in the UK are building storage boxes that could house up to petabytes of data using commodity hardware. Managed Service Providers can benefit from this cost-effective storage solution for their StoreGrid Backup or Replication servers.
This initially started as an effort by an online backup service provider to build cheap cloud storage for its own storage needs (thanks to them for sharing the design for those who wish to build their storage cost-effectively!). This has triggered a few hardware architects in the UK to explore building cheap storage options for service … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, backblaze pod, caringo, cheap storage, cloud backup, online storage, storage pod
Posted in Online Backup, SP Edition | 1 Comment »
TLM (Thought Leadership Marketing) for IT Service Providers
What the heck is this TLM? ‘Thought Leadership Marketing’ is a term that came on its own in the past few years. Here is a definition of Thought Leadership from raintoday.com .
“Thought Leadership centers on earning trust and credibility. Thought leaders are noticed by offering something different – information, insights and ideas, for instance.”
For IT service Providers who are wondering what this TLM can do for them, here is the answer. According to the recent press release by Gartner , Thought Leadership Marketing can be a powerful tool for IT service Providers.
Also … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Marketing for MSPs, marketing ideas for IT service Providers, offsite backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, thought leadership marketing, TLM for IT Service Providers
Posted in General, Marketing, Remote Backup, SP Edition | No Comments »
On Vembu & VC Investment
I keep getting emails from VC firms at regular intervals. I have had initial phone calls with many of them. But invariably there is no progress as we just do not act on raising money on our own because I fundamentally cannot get myself to pitch my business to a VC just to raise money. The reason is that I am uncomfortable doing a business plan on how I will scale the company. Because until we try something out we will never know whether it is going to work or not. It is always continuous experiments you run and figure … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, offsite backup, Remote Backup, Sekar Vembu and VC Investment, Vembu and VC, Vembu and VC Investment, Vembu Online Backup, Vembu Technologies | Angel Investors
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Trends, VC Investment, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Microsoft features Vembu as ‘Startup of the Day’ in Microsoft Startup Zone
More excitement rolls in as Microsoft BizSpark featured ‘Vembu’ as their ‘Startup of the Day’ on its website today. As you might recall from my previous blog that Microsoft handpicked Vembu Technologies as one of the most promising 45 startup firms around 10 countries for the new ‘BizSpark One’ program and Vembu is the first and only firm from India to be selected for that Program.
As part of being the “Startup Of the Day” our CEO, Sekar Vembu was interviewed by the Microsoft BizSpark team. Here is a quote from the interview:
“It certainly feels good to … Read the rest
Tags: microsoft backup, microsoft startup of the day, offsite backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
The Cloud: Substance wins over Form
The Cloud has garnered quite a bit of media storm since its advent with big names like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Sun throwing in their hats in the ring. Not to mention the controversy kicked up by McKinsey’s uncharitable comments on the Cloud.
We have always believed that the Cloud would be a valuable addition to an MSP’s arsenal – and we went about supporting Amazon Cloud services precisely because of that. This enabled our partners to either operate their entire backup service out of Amazon’s EC2/S3 services or simply leverage S3 storage service for the offsite replication. And we … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, Cloud, cloud backup, ESG, Steve Duplessie
Posted in Amazon Cloud, Online Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
XXX Backup
There’s a competitor of ours called Axxxx
They have a forum (if you hadn’t guessed already, you know who they are now)
One of the key rules on their forum is ‘no names of competitors’. So you’ll find references to us as Vxxxx. For example (from their forum): My reseller is close to dropping our service and switch to a vxxxx based solution because of these kinds of glitches. Please help.
You’ll also find references to some of the consumer backup services like Mxxx and Cxxxxxxxx (who is sometimes also referred to as Carb – in the fond hope that … Read the rest
Tags: ahsay, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 4 Comments »
Vembu StoreGrid Survey – And the Winners are …
If you’d evaluated or still evaluating Vembu StoreGrid, then you might have stumbled upon our email announcing the ‘StoreGrid Survey’ that we conducted back in November’ 09. We received tremendous response for this survey and we would like to thank every one of you for your honest feedback.
As promised we have chosen 5 lucky winners from the Survey Respondents, who will be awarded with $300 worth of Amazon Gift Certificates.
And the winners are ….
1) Todd Mitchell (wbltd DOT com)
2) David Tschoepe (beenanza DOT com)
3) Andrew Cohen (smr DOT us)
4) Alex Rodriguez (ontimecomputing DOT com)… Read the rest
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
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