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Can Cloud Storage Replace Backup?
Cloud storage vendors got a new marketing message, “data on the cloud doesn’t require backup since we replicate the data to at least two different zones or locations”. There is always this assumption amongst some Storage industry folks that ‘Storage is the new backup’. If they say that “data is being backed” up just because the data is in the cloud which replicates it to multiple locations then they do not understand the difference between raw storage and backups.
According to a recent blog by W Curtis Preston “Good backup is much more than mere data protection: Backup must manage … Read the rest
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Save your data for life-time
Storing digital data is the prime objective of any data center; the question is for how long the data is going to be stored. Almost all of us are storing our digital data on an offsite data center by the means of emails, photos, videos etc. I always had this thought in my mind that for how long would our personal data be stored and preserved. Say, if after some 150 or 200 years our great (great) grand children want to access the information, do they have the option to do that? This is not a problem for just an … Read the rest
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New Partner Zone look – inspired by Bing
Over 1,300 online backup service providers use our partner zone. If you’re one of them and have been to the partner zone lately, you probably noticed that it looks different.
If you like the new look, remember to thank Bing!
One of the interesting things that’s helping endear Bing to its users is their interesting library of background images. Take a look – most of those pics are amazing (hint: there’s a control at the bottom right that lets you see other pictures) !
Bing’s homepage design is the polar opposite of Google’s spartan approach to … Read the rest
Tags: bing, Online Backup, Vembu StoreGrid, website design
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Government appointed “crumbs pickers” take charge at Satyam Computers! Why “in the best interests” actions are a dangerous thing?
Note to our customers and partners: Before I get bashed up by some of our customers or partners (who use our product, Vembu StoreGrid, for their online/onsite backups) who are reading this blog to learn more about our company, our product, the online backup or the SaaS/MSP industry, I promise that the next two posts of mine will be related to our business. Please bear with me for letting out my frustrations in this blog. I am deeply passionate about some of these topics – especially how more and more government intervention in our lives is the root … Read the rest
Tags: corporate scams, Free Market, government intervention, mothehood slogans, satyam's disbanded board
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Crooks are taking over this world; How long do we just settle for the crumbs?
I feel more and more agitated and restless nowadays. The expose of so many of the corporate scams that have been going on for so long is proving my intuitions right – that the current system of governance (the skewed free market system with so called government controlled regulatory authorities) in place across the world breed crooks more often than not. I am not at all happy about the situation though it sometimes feels good that I have personally always stayed away from investing in stock markets as I have always felt uncomfortable and did not believe in the hype and … Read the rest
Tags: coporate scams, crooks, crumbs, Free Market, government regulation, satyam scam
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The “skewed free market” world we all live in
I just can’t resist posting this! I don’t know what to feel about the current economic crisis and how the US Federal Reserve and the central banks across the world are going about trying to avert a complete economic collapse – by pumping in more and more money into the system. I do not know if I am feeling depressed or agitated, or both! Here is a simplistic way of describing what the Fed is trying to do; you can judge for yourself if this is all true “free market”.
Let’s say there are 100 people in a room and … Read the rest
Tags: Central Banking, Economy, Fiat Money, Free Market
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