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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 »

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

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Posted in Online Backup, SP Edition | 1 Comment »

TLM (Thought Leadership Marketing) for IT Service Providers

Thought LeaderWhat 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

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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

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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

Microsoft - Startup of the DayMore 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

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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

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XXX Backup

Vxxxx

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

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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 ….StoreGrid Survey Winners

1) Todd Mitchell (wbltd DOT com)


2) David Tschoepe (beenanza DOT com)


3) Andrew Cohen (smr DOT us)


4) Alex Rodriguez (ontimecomputing DOT com)
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Amazon gets calculative

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Two days ago,  Amazon announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) calculator on their blog. I can see this becoming quite useful, and am, in fact, surprised that they didn’t do this earlier.

You can access the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator here. The calculator, currently in Beta, allows you to get an idea of the kind of costs you can expect for different services that you might use. They’ve even had a stab at typical figures you might be seeing for some ‘typical use cases’.

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Don’t see the use cases? You need to scroll to the right if your Read the rest

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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

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