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Events in February
Come See Us…
Vembu is attending two important industry events in February:
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
Tags: Connectwise, cPanel, Event, Hosting Providers, Hostingcon, LevelPlatforms, Online Backup, Plesk, Remote Backup
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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
Tags: 10000 hours, Gladwell, MSPMentor, MSPs, outliers, success
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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
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
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“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.
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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The future of usability is almost here
Remember Minority Report and the cool way in which Tom Cruise used computers. Or Harry Potter with its video embedded in newspapers?
It’s here – and will cost less than $350
We obsess a fair bit about user interfaces & usability. This TED video from MIT’s Media Labs just blew our mind. Check it out. I promise you’ll be impressed.
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup… Read the rest
Tags: MIT Media Lab, Pattie Maes, Pranav Mistry, SixthSense, TED, usability
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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
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Wave to me
Today I felt like a kid with a new toy – a new toy that was temporarily out of stock (and so my friends couldn’t get at it…yet).
I got a Google Wave invite!
What’s Google Wave? You’ve either been living under a rock or even worse…you have a life!
Anyway, Google Wave is a new product/service form Google that is currently in “Preview Mode”. Preview mode seems to be the mode before Google goes into a never ending Beta. Google Wave aims/claims/hopes to usher in a new way (wave?) of communicating.
The rationale is simple – if email were … Read the rest
Tags: google wave
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