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.

The focus of ECM relies on controlling the movement of content through preconceived lifecycle or business processes which is not the case in CCM. CCM has emphasis on flexible sharing of active content and does support some simple content centric workflows like commenting and editing on content. CCM also enables easy deployment and rapid sharing of content.

The following illustration will highlight some of the key concepts of Cloud Content Management to compliment ECM.

ECM is mostly preferred where documents and forms are digitized and coupled with business process to maintain records that are discoverable with the help of IT admins. Whereas, CCM is a user complementary approach that is cost-effective, rapidly deployed and helps individuals easily share content across organizations and firewalls because of which the importance of CCM is growing over the days.

So, is the whisper getting louder for CCM or not? Drop your comments or tweet us.

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Some highlights we took from the event, includes:

1. More than 50% of the IT execs and MSPs we met wanted to use virtualized environments for disaster recovery in the next 6 months or so. And many focused on speed to recovery or a near-instant failover into their private cloud environments.

2. Many MSPs want to re-position themselves to offer disaster recovery services with more focus on business continuity and service recovery, not just backup data restoration. Virtualization based Disaster Recovery, in particular, attracted MSPs as it allowed them to perform rapid disaster recovery shrinking the CAPEX required with traditional DR.

3. Looks like MSPs these days talk less about traditional backup and discuss more about business continuity services to their SMB customers. Infact, many indicated that they are making changes in the backup infrastructure to accommodate for the introduction of image based backups into their process and are actively moving business critical applications (such as MS Exchange, SQL, Kaseya Server etc) to disk based backup solutions.

4. Based on number of backup vendors this year at Kaseya Partner Pavilion, it was obvious that more and more MSPs are keen to offer cloud-based disaster recovery and online backup services to their customers. Also, for vendors like us the market is getting hot and extremely competitive.

The industry is now increasingly in agreement that virtualization will redefine the SMB data protection landscape, but there is still some debate around what exactly is the right architecture for these BDR platforms which could handles today’s expectations for an always-on environments.

We think we at Vembu have a compelling recipe for addressing the technical and economic barriers encompassing the complete backup and disaster recovery requirements in complex SMB physical and virtual environments through multiple deployment options for MSPs. You can take a closer look at the latest release StoreGrid 4.2 to learn more on how we solve the recovery piece of the puzzle.

We put a lot of work into making our first update to SyncBlaze SP Edition that includes the much awaited downloadable SyncBlaze Server Installer and other configuration options. The update mainly focuses on making the installation procedure easier and more simpler to our valued partners.

The following are available for this release update.

• SyncBlaze Server Installer for Linux – Automated server installation is now available
• Google Domain Configuration – Configuration to enable Google Apps Data
• Zoho Viewer Configuration – Configuration to enable integrated file viewer
• Email Settings – Settings to configure custom email server
• Reseller Disk Space – Storage quota and space allocation for resellers

SyncBlaze Server Installer for Linux

The server installation was done manually by our technical team to create a specific build on the Linux platform within your premises and in this regard we used to collect some technical information to complete this effort.

With high demand from our partners, we have made the downloadable installer available on our website. As a registered partner, you have to simply download the installer and proceed with the installation procedure.

The complete installation guide is available here.

Google Domain Configuration

Google Domain Configuration is used to access user’s Google Apps data such as Emails, Docs and Contacts using Google API.

Follow the steps to proceed with the Google Domain Configuration and as the final step enter the generated Google Consumer and Secret Key in the respective fields. Click ‘Save’ to complete the configuration.

After successful configurations, users get the privilege to enable all Google Apps data.

Zoho Viewer Configuration

Zoho Viewer Configuration is used to view synced files through Zoho Viewer using Zoho API.

Follow the steps to proceed with the Zoho Viewer Configuration, copy and paste the generated Zoho API and Secret Key in the respective fields. Click ‘Save’ to complete the configuration.

Once configuration is successful, the files can be viewed with the integrated Zoho Viewer.

Email Settings

Email Settings is used to configure the email address for all outgoing emails from your custom email server.

The SMTP Server Name and Port Number of the specific server have to be used along with the User Name and Password if the partner opts for Authentication.

All emails sent to the customers/users will use the configured custom email server.

Reseller Disk Space

In the ‘List of Customer(s)’ section, the Reseller Disk Space Info has an update to edit the storage quota of that specific reseller account and also assign space for reseller’s use.

Click on ‘Edit’ to make the necessary changes in the Storage Quota and Space Allocation section.

And more

We also fixed a number of bugs, improved the installation and made SyncBlaze more stable.

We are really looking forward to hearing what you think of the new improvements available. There are also many more updates and enhancements coming to SyncBlaze. Stay tuned. Drop your thoughts. We are available in twitter too.

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Thanks so much for your continued support and patience. Based on your valuable feedback, many new features are added and we firmly believe that this new release will bring more benefits to your business!

Here’s a heads up for what’s in store in the new release:

Support for Parallels Plesk – The much awaited integration of StoreGrid with Parallels Plesk’s web hosting control panel will support a domain level backup and restore capability. Initially, the Plesk integration will be available for Centos OS.

Multiple Storage Location – Using this feature StoreGrid will be able to utilize multiple storage volumes simultaneously and facilitate multi-tenant storage infrastructure as its backup data store.

High Performance Incremental Backups – An outstanding performance improvement will be noticed for large incremental backups with StoreGrid’s support for Inotify. With it’s integration with inotify module, what took 10 hours for an incremental, will now take just 1 hour for the same incremental.

Support for Windows Machine Backup – The Hosting Provider Edition’s OS support has been extended for Windows OS as well. StoreGrid will now support backup of Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and MySQL servers.

Support for VMware Backup – StoreGrid Hosting Edition now supports backing up multiple VMware images from a single StoreGrid agent installation. The agent can be installed in a standalone machine or in one of the VMware’s VM itself.

Improved Performance of cPanel Dump Process – Another milestone performance improvement, this time for the cPanel dump processes. Users will be able to see a 5X speed up in the dump processes of Account Settings and MySQL database in cPanel which in turn will result in faster cPanel backups.

Enhanced Integrations – StoreGrid seamlessly works with cPanel, Parallels Plesk, WHMCS and more.

We at Vembu, are driven by feedbacks and requests from our customers and partners. The earlier edition of Hosting Provider Edition v 5.0 had primarily targeted the needs of managed hosting providers. With the new Hosting Edition release, we bring in some more integrations and greater performance improvements keeping in mind the requirements of an ideal hosting environment. We look forward to more suggestions and feedbacks to constantly improve in our endeavor and provide better products.

If you have any questions on this release or upgrade process, please contact our 24/7 technical support team at storegrid-hosting@vembu.com

Vembu is a silver sponsors of Kaseya Connect. Our product experts will be really glad to answer all your queries about data protection and content management solutions that will expand and generate high margin to both your businesses and your valued clients.

If you are going to be at the show, be sure to drop by our booth to check out the latest on StoreGrid & SyncBlaze solutions and to gather more on our partner program.

Look forward to connect with you at Kaseya!

• Employees, partners and suppliers can work together by sharing the files from multiple remote locations.
• Bookmark articles, blogs, whitepapers, journals, research information and other webpages on any topic of domain relevance, share and access them from anywhere, anytime and any device.
• Capture all great ideas, information, seminar and meeting highlights as notes and simply share them with your colleagues.
• Users have complete freedom to access and view content on-the-go, download files for offline viewing and share files from any mobile device.
• SHARE ALL YOUR CONTENT WITH SYNCBLAZE CLOUD

WATCH THE VIDEO TUTORIAL ON CONTENT SHARING

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SPACE ALLOCATION

Let’s slide through a scenario where a reseller/customer manages the allocated space effectively and help users solve storage issues efficiently.

Five-Easy-Steps-to-Space-Allocation

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Let us know whether the tutorial was helpful to you. Do tweet us your thoughts.

In case you missed it, SyncBlaze Cloud is also available in the Android Platform.

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ANYTIME. ANYWHERE. ANYDEVICE.

You don’t have to worry anymore about which files are up-to-date and on what computer, because SyncBlaze takes care of the entire remaining’s. With SyncBlaze, the most common question “Do I have all my files on my laptop?” has transformed to “Do I have SyncBlaze?”

SyncBlaze makes the entire file synchronization process simple and easy. You just have to download the sync utility from SyncBlaze Cloud website and store your important files to the special SyncBlaze folder.

Check out the file synchronization tutorial to know better about syncing files and folders using SyncBlaze.

Watch this space for more tutorials that will make your tour with SyncBlaze simpler and easier. Tweet us back your feedback or email us.

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Jason Steuernagel, Got It Back LLC

The Challenges

The advent of virtualization and cloud technologies has changed the Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) picture dramatically in the SMB space. Managed Service Providers offering backup services face a greater challenge to provide Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution which is not only automated completely but also reliable and flexible to the ever growing demands of their business customers.

The Solution

Due to increase in virtualization and cloud technologies adoption, Service Providers need to identify a Backup & Disaster Recovery solution which offers high-performance backup with multiple restore options to cater to different categories of customers. They also have the onerous task to lookout for a product which constantly improves  to meet the  emerging data protection and disaster recovery needs of  evolving  businesses.

The StoreGrid Benefit

Vembu StoreGrid offers a compelling recipe for addressing the technical and economic barriers to broaden Cloud Backup and Virtualization based disaster recovery adoption in SMB. In particular StoreGrid attracted SMBs as it allowed them to perform virtualized disaster recovery shrinking the CAPEX required with traditional DR.

See a real MSP talk about  all this and more of his experiences of solving the challenges with StoreGrid in this video case study.

At Vembu, we not only believe in offering a profitable partner channel program but also constantly listen to valuable inputs from our partners to continuously improve the product.

Feel free to take a closer look at our latest edition StoreGrid 4.2 to learn more.

We are glad to share some info and few snapshots of the SyncBlaze Android App.

With SyncBlaze Android App, you can:

• Access and view contents on your Android phone or tablet.
• Share any file over email via links.
• Download your files for offline viewing.
• Integrated file viewer for quick viewing.
• And much more!

Let’s get started with the SyncBlaze Android App by signing in using a registered SyncBlaze ID.

Access SyncBlaze on the go: All your contents in SyncBlaze are available in your android device. Now access them from anywhere, anytime.

Download files for offline viewing: Your files in SyncBlaze can be downloaded and viewed at any time.

Share files via Email links: Your files in SyncBlaze can be shared with your friends/family/colleagues by emailing the link.

View content with the integrated reader: The reader allow users to read their content at ease without worrying about using any external application.

Download the SyncBlaze Cloud Android App from Google Play.

Please do give it a try and let us know your valuable feedback on the user interface and functionality of the app. As always, please feel free to drop your feedback at syncblaze-support@syncblaze.com. Also, Follow us in Twitter.

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