[Cloud] A Powerful Game Changer for MSPs

Everyone would have heard a lot about the cloud and its hype already. So lets take a sneak peek into its adoption in businesses, especially among the channel partners #MSPs #VARs

Cloud adoption is accelerating at an impressive rate, especially among the developers, business units and CFOs because of its varied advantages. Developers are likely to adopt cloud because of its flexibility which is being showcased by their peers by delivering a lot of new ideas and doing a lot of cool stuffs. Business units claim that cloud can be used readily out of the box which requires no maintenance, particularly the SaaS applications. The finance side of business saves a lot with cloud as they can avoid unnecessary capital expenditure, headcount and budget. The IT on the other hand who used to get nightmares about the security in the cloud have already started showing interest towards its adoption.
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In Focus at the VMUG – Enhanced StoreGrid 4.4 for VMware Backups

Server virtualization technologies such as those based on VMware have revolutionized the deployment of hardware and software resources for many organizations. This is especially true in the case of MSPs running complex datacenters , wherein quick fail over and spin-up in the event of some drastic interruption of production servers is a requirement. Utilizing a virtualization solution can mean fewer physical servers to be deployed and maintained, which obviously translates into a simpler environment that is more cost-effective to maintain.

Vembu in it’s endeavor to simplify it’s backup and recovery solution for it’s channel partners enhanced it’s virtualization solution in it’s recent beta release of StoreGrid v4.4. The Vembu team was at the Silicon Valley VMware User Group Meetup, this week – the focus being on Vembu’s recent milestone release for VMware Backups with it’s support of vStorage API.
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Connect with Vembu @ Kaseya Connect User Conference 2013

This week, the Vembu team will be at Las Vegas, attending the Kaseya Connect User Conference, 2013. After last year’s good memories and an insightful experience at the Kaseya Connect 2012, we are geared up to share the latest innovations and trends in our products – StoreGrid (Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution) and SyncBlaze( File sharing and Collaboration Solution).
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SyncBlaze Update: APIs, Unicode Character Support and more

Here comes SyncBlaze Service Provider Edition with a release update that includes some enhancements on the tray, APIs and unicode character support.

Getting started with the SyncBlaze APIs

We are in the process of building our repository of APIs that will add value to our partners and help them integrate SyncBlaze into their system. We kick started with the APIs to support account provisioning and extracting data usage information.

These APIs enables you to programmatically enable access to SyncBlaze, specifically, the API provides functions for the following modules:
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Available Now: Beta release of StoreGrid v4.4

The Vembu Engineering team have been busy over the last couple of months getting StoreGrid v 4.4 ready and we are pleased to announce that we now have a public beta of StoreGrid v 4.4 available! Download the Beta Builds now.

StoreGrid v4.4 is the result of your feedback, suggestions and bug reports, it is also the realization of our vision of providing a robust, affordable and a simple BDR platform that is rightly attuned for the MSP’s ecosystem.

Here are some of it’s notable features:
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Taneja Group Blog : Vembu’s Optimized Solutions for MSPs, MHPs and VARs

Christine Taylor, Analyst at Taneja Group recently posted a blog on Vembu Technologies. In her post, Christine summarizes the growing trend of MSPs, HSPs and VARs market and the difficulties faced by them. Christine points out how StoreGrid addresses these challenges and customizes its products to service these segments. Here is an excerpt from her blog:

“We have been impressed with Vembu’s StoreGrid offering serving these segments. StoreGrid is a massively flexible, high performance backup and disaster recovery system that protects a wide variety of operating systems, physical and virtual server, email and database applications.”
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StoreGrid Clustering Deployment – Some Best Practices

From managing complex data centers to providing rapid uptime in times of server crashes and also scaling to the dynamic backup industry is no mean a trivial thing for a service provider. We understand that for you MSP’s, failure to provision any of these can mean lost credibility, lost revenues, or worse, lost clients. StoreGrid’s Round Robin Algorithm based Clustering support for StoreGrid backup and replication servers is designed to deliver high availability services and ease and automate administration in complex datacenters. Here are some of the key highlights:
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We’re moving to the Lone Star State, Texas !!!

Yes. There is an adage that everything is bigger in Texas and we certainly are getting ready for bigger and better times to come following this announcement that we have now officially moved our office location from Fremont, CA to Irving, TX. Our new office address going forward will be 5005 W Royal Lane, Suite # 183K, Irving, TX. We are growing and expanding our operations rapidly.  The reason for choosing Dallas as our primary location is because of it’s geography of being central and with that base we can easily manage our Partners throughout the country.

We are also looking to hire highly dynamic and energetic people for the post of pre-sales, post-sales and marketing department. People with 2 – 4 years of experience in the domain of hosting, infrastructure, backup, storage etc…, Got to be High Octane Go-getters with a bristling do whatever it takes attitude ! That pretty much summarizes the type of people we are looking to hire.
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Vembu at ASCII IT Success Summit at Boston Area 2013.

Vembu continues its partnership with ASCII with yet another event, this time in Boston – ASCII IT Success Summit on Apr 17th. The last ASCII event at Los Angeles was a huge success for us with a lot of fun and enjoyable moments.

Vembu Backup – Skit enacted at ASCII summit

After our last successful stint at the event and the wealth of information we gathered with our interaction with MSPs and IT providers, we are convinced that the rapidly evolving MSP ecosystem is looking for equally dynamic value added services which offers them not only profitability but also newer solutions to existing problems and we think our products (StoreGrid and SyncBlaze) are rightly attuned to these demands of the MSPs.
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SyncBlaze – A business solution to the Dropbox disruption

Dropbox is definitely the popular file sharing product in the consumer market today. The term ‘Dropbox’ in the context of this blog refers to the consumer file sharing products in general. But when we turn towards the side of businesses, these consumer products become a nightmare especially for the IT because of the problems associated with it like the lack of administrative capabilities, control over users and their sensitive data.

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