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Vembu’s Channel Strategy – A Reality Check
I am writing this in response to the concerns expressed by a few partners of ours on our strategy with Vembu Home online backup service for consumers and the upcoming Vembu Pro backup service for businesses (which we plan to offer to businesses exclusively through our partners). I want to clarify that Vembu Pro backup service is a result of many of our prospective partners expressing interest in reselling a branded backup service hosted and managed by us rather than hosting StoreGrid Service Provider Edition in their data center themselves and managing them.
Firstly, I want to state upfront that I … Read the rest
Tags: Channel Conflict, Channel Partners, data backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu Channel Strategy, Vembu Home, Vembu Online Backup Service, Vembu Pro
Posted in General, Online Backup, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 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 »
Retro games making a ‘new’ comeback – in Google logo
Somewhere down my memory lane, I remember playing PAC-MAN as a coin operated arcade game. Can you imagine playing the PAC-MAN game in the Google logo? You can do that today and tomorrow in the special Google ‘Doodle’ that is out.
This special doodle was created in the honor of PAC-MAN’s 30th Birthday, where you can refresh some of your old 8-bit memories and play PAC-MAN in the Google’s first ever playable doodle. You can start playing the game by clicking the ‘Insert Coin’ button on the home page of the Google or wait for few seconds … Read the rest
Tags: cloud based retro games, Google Doodle, im feeling lucky, Insert Coin, online backup software, PAC MAN game, Vembu Online Backup
Posted in google, Humour, Marketing, Online Backup, Vembu StoreGrid | 4 Comments »
IT Requirements of SMBs
Is the SMB market ripe enough for IT Service Industry, especially in a recession environment? While large companies had a rough sledding through the recession, SMBs made a relatively good financial progress.
SMBs – Steering well in rough seas
Here’s an excerpt from the May 1st Edition of Wall Street Journal : “Like most companies, smaller firms used the global crisis to pare costs and trim inventories. They are running lean nowadays and have relatively strong balance sheets, with more cash and less debt as a percentage of market capitalization than do large companies, according to Standard & Poor’s data. … Read the rest
Tags: cloud computing, hosted services, IT requirements of SMBs, Online Backup
Posted in Microsoft, Online Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
Mulling over the Minnows
While the U.S. and the world economies are still trying to come out of the economic crisis, companies have been trimming their work force. The luckier employees who still have their jobs intact now spend much longer hours at work, making up for the reduced work force. It has not been easy for the business owners either. A survey conducted by Grant Thornton International (http://www.gti.org/Press-room/stress2010.asp ) found that 76% of the business owners have reported increased stress levels over the last year, majority of them citing economic climate and increased work load as the reason for it.
In such … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Managed Service Providers, Marketing in touch economy, Online Backup, ROI from Small Customers, small vs big customers
Posted in Marketing, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
The Path to SMB customers – a Treasure Hunt
Reaching out for SMB customers has more or less become like a treasure hunt for IT Industry folks. We know that there is a pot of gold at end of the tunnel. But the real problem is that we may not have the treasure map – the right path that will lead us to them.
Why it is difficult to reach SMBs.
Every adventure trip has its own challenges. SMBs are typically run by tight entrepreneurs, who are conservative in terms of budget and may not venture out into adopting new technologies without getting absolutely convinced of its ROI. SMBs … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, IT Service Providers, Managed Service Providers, Online Backup, Path to reach SMBs, Remote Backup, SMBs
Posted in General, Marketing, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
New! StoreGrid supports backing up to Amazon QC2 – Quantum Computing Cloud
We at Vembu Labs have been working closely with the latest breakthroughs in storage and computing technology to keep StoreGrid ahead of the tech curve. For instance, we were among the earliest to adopt Amazon EC2/S3 services for data backups – as soon as Amazon removed the Beta tag on the Amazon Cloud!
Vembu StoreGrid and Amazon Web Services have been working closely on a new technology – and the time is right for us to talk about StoreGrid’s support to Amazon’s QC2 service (Quantum Computing Cloud). This ground breaking solution makes use of qubits (or quantum bits) for manipulating … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Quantum Compute Cloud, April fool joke, Online Backup, Quantum Entanglement, StoreGrid New Release
Posted in Amazon Cloud, Broadband, Humour, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | 1 Comment »
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 »
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