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In response to our competitor’s willingness to stop the blog war, we want to reiterate that as a company we do not like to indulge in blog wars or any unwarranted mudslinging. We were just provoked by RBS’s constant focus in attacking our product and company without full understanding of what we are. We apologize if we hurt anyone personally in this avoidable blog war.
As a company we are down to earth to the point that we even feel uncomfortable beating our own drums leave alone indulge in mudslinging or attacking a competition with creating FUD about them. We … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Internet Backup, microsoft backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
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On Paternity Claims and Sundry Other Rants…
I ran into an especially long-winded post in a competitor’s blog – it is very confused even by the standards of someone who claims paternity for the ‘online backup industry’. Initially, I thought it was just the phrase ‘online-backup’, but later it transpired that it was the whole industry for which parentage was being claimed. Much the same thing happened with me when one day in 1993, I asked my friend near the refrigerator, ‘(We) Got Milk?’ and thereby INVENTED the phrase ‘Got Milk?’. AND pasteurization. AND the whole dairy industry. Giggle.
I wouldn’t have written this post hadn’t it … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Internet Backup, microsoft backup, Online Backup, RBS goof up, Remote Backup
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Should we respond to a competitor’s FUD tactics?
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds”.
- Orison Swett Marden
The above quote would be a perfect fit for what we have been encountering here at Vembu .
We feel lonely at the top, especially when we are successful and our competitors take shots at us whenever they can. Some of them write blogs and articles about stuffs they SIMPLY don’t understand and some have their daily bread and butter watching our forums and press releases. I am … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Internet Backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Why Vembu is better than other competitors
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Microsoft picks Vembu for its new ‘BizSpark One’ global initiative
We’re super excited as Microsoft rolled out their ‘BizSpark One’ Program and picked Vembu Technologies as one of 45 start-up firms from around 10 countries worldwide and Vembu is the first and only firm from India to be selected for this Program. BizSpark One companies are selected based on their potential to succeed in marketplace and shape the industry’s future with innovative software solutions and their commitment to develop and deploy these solutions.
BizSpark one is the latest expansion of Microsoft’s BizSpark Program and designed to accelerate the growth of selected high potential startups through focused relationship with Microsoft. As … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, microsoft backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
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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
Tags: Amazon Cloud, Cloud, cloud backup, ESG, Steve Duplessie
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Prevention is Better than Cure
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Pardon the cliche. In the context of data, backing up is ‘prevention’. Shipping your mangled/wet/smashed/puked on hard drive to a data recovery company is ‘cure’.
I came across an interesting story from the ‘cure’ side of the data protection business. eWeek is running a slideshow feature based on Kroll Ontrack Data recovery’s compilation of the top 10 data disasters they saw in 2009. The list is interesting. Here’s a summary of the underlying causes behind the top 10 disasters:
Surely, your customers don’t enjoy the prospect of paying huge amounts of money to recover priceless data. More importantly, (for … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, data recovery, Online Backup
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XXX Backup
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
Tags: ahsay, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu
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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 ….
1) Todd Mitchell (wbltd DOT com)
2) David Tschoepe (beenanza DOT com)
3) Andrew Cohen (smr DOT us)
4) Alex Rodriguez (ontimecomputing DOT com)… Read the rest
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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’.
Don’t see the use cases? You need to scroll to the right if your … Read the rest
Tags: amazon, AWS, Online Backup, StoreGrid, Vembu
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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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