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CCM vs. ECM: The Game is on!

Businesses are evolving rapidly because of various fundamental changes in technology and workers at the other end are becoming more depended on the Internet for collaboration. Organizations are becoming more networked both internally and externally making them to adopt a new paradigm of solutions that accolades the usability of traditional content management system. One such whisper in the winds is Cloud Content Management (CCM).

Cloud Content Management (CCM) compliments the traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM), which represents a crystallized strategy that deals with unstructured content and its access control as it can be captured, stored, managed, archived and delivered.

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Is The Cloud A Threat or Opportunity?

Your customers are being bombarded by consumer cloud service offerings including data protection solutions like Mozy and Carbonite and content management/collaboration offerings like Drop Box and Box.net. The vendors that offer these solutions are selling directly to SMB customers. This poses a real and substantial threat to the relationship you have with your customers because they may be lured into thinking they can easily deploy these solutions themselves. As any veteran VAR, MSP or MHP knows, SMB customers are not the most IT savvy group and their ability to successfully deploy and manage these solutions is often lacking.

Many SMBs … Read the rest

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Vembu Delivers StoreGrid Hosting Provider Edition at Parallels Summit

Vembu was one of the sponsors of the Parallels Summit this week at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, FL. The keynote presentation was delivered by industry veteran Guy Kawasaki who talked about how to build a great company by “enchanting” your customers. You can read the VAR Guy’s Blog about Kawasaki’s presentation if you click here. Kawasaki explained why enchanting your customers is the key for service providers (or any business for that matter) to build a successful and thriving business. According to Kawasaki, the three pillars of enchantment are likability, trustworthiness and quality.

As I listened to … Read the rest

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Events in February

Come See Us…

Vembu is attending two important industry events in February:

Parallels Summit 2012

Parallels Summit
Orlando, FL
February 14-16

Booth #425

The Parallels Summit, being held at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando Florida, will provide a gathering place for the who’s who of the hosting industry.  If you are at the show, be sure to come by our booth because we are announcing  a major product for the hosting industry at this show.  We are focusing on data protection for Managed Hosting Providers in order to what we see as weaknesses in current solutions.  Managed hosting providers have a unique … Read the rest

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PSA Tools & MSP Success

Let’s face it, most MSPs are technical folks who enjoy spending time solving customer problems by implementing and maintaining technology-based services.  That is why most of us got into this business in the first place.  Unfortunately there is a side of the business that many MSPs dread, but is critical to ensure your success.  I refer to the activities such as effectively managing the time tracking of your staff, meeting SLAs and most importantly ensuring all your invoicing is accurate and submitted.  Building a successful data protection services business requires that you deliver great service and that includes handling all … Read the rest

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Vembu @ HostingCon2010

We are at the HostingCon 2010 in Austin, Texas and the atmosphere here is fantastic. We are excited about showing off the latest in Vembu StoreGrid for service providers.

Check out our booth #326, we’ll be showing off the latest in our product for managed hosting providers. A very good reason to do this is because Jay, our VP of Storage Services will be around to take questions on online backups and the latest in storage technology.

1) In the ‘latest’ category, the Flex Light interface for desktops and laptops is currently in beta and is soon to be released … Read the rest

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A ‘Healthy’ Adoption of Cloud based Social Networks

My friend once told me about this doctor he knew.  Back in the 1980s, this doc noticed that many of his patients could do with some advice on easily preventable ailments – which typically cost them a lost day of work at the farm and a visit to the doctor.   He compiled a list of rural visitors to his clinic over the years and started mailing them inexpensive postcards with printed health messages aimed at preventing them ever having to visit him (in effect).  The audacity of this plan was matched only by its simplicity and his practice flourished with … Read the rest

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Dame Luck & The 10,000-hour Road to Success

Considering humanity’s obsession with ‘self-development’/’How to be successful’ books and the yards and yards of shelf space that they occupy on our book stores, any attempt to dissect the clichéd ‘roads to success’ is definitely worthwhile.

Malcolm Gladwell’s famous 10,000-hour rule has caught the fancy of a lot of people.   The book attempts to question our definition of ‘success’ and to find out a pattern behind ‘outliers’.  Gladwell goes to explain the careers of really successful people – accomplished and extraordinary persons who are outside of ordinary experience.

A recent post by Joe Panettieri from MSPMentor summarizes this book … Read the rest

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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 »

“G-Drive is here”; “G-Drive is on the way”.

Rumors are all around for the much hyped ‘G – Drive’.  Initially people said G-Drive will become a part of Gmail and will help the users to store emails, documents and pictures etc. Now it all turns to ‘Google Docs’ as the Google Docs Product Manager Vijay Bangaru announced the storage options.

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Google G-Drive

Google Docs now offers 1 GB of free storage and users can purchase more for $0.25/GB. Being in the backup business, we do come across questions on how Google offers raw storage at such a low price point and the same kind of price … Read the rest

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