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Storage on a Budget for MSPs!
Offsite backup storage solutions at commodity hardware prices
Folks in the UK are building storage boxes that could house up to petabytes of data using commodity hardware. Managed Service Providers can benefit from this cost-effective storage solution for their StoreGrid Backup or Replication servers.
This initially started as an effort by an online backup service provider to build cheap cloud storage for its own storage needs (thanks to them for sharing the design for those who wish to build their storage cost-effectively!). This has triggered a few hardware architects in the UK to explore building cheap storage options for service … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, backblaze pod, caringo, cheap storage, cloud backup, online storage, storage pod
Posted in Online Backup, SP Edition | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in Amazon Cloud, Online Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
Vembu Home is now in Public Beta
Vembu Home is now available to all. No more invitation codes.
The response from users during the short Private Beta period (we launched on October 8th) has been awesome. The hybrid approach taken by Vembu Home to provide the ability to backup both to local machines as well as online to the Amazon Cloud, has been singled out for the most praise by users who sent us their feedback.
We are now more pumped up and are working longer hours to add more useful features to Vembu Home. Please do send us your feedback and feature requests. Your input will … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, Private Beta, Public Beta, Vembu Home
Posted in Amazon Cloud, General, Vembu Home | No Comments »
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
Posted in Events, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | No Comments »
StoreGrid supports Amazon Cloud – Choice and Flexibility is our mantra
Hot on the heels of Amazon removing the Beta tag and releasing Amazon EC2 for production, we are excited to announce the Beta release of Vembu StoreGrid Cloud AMI, which facilitates deploying StoreGrid in Amazon cloud computing infrastructure. This has been a long pending demand from our partner base, who are MSPs, VARs and IT Solution providers offering online backup services using StoreGrid.
StoreGrid Cloud AMI Beta is available for both Microsoft Windows Server and CentOS Linux Server. Also, the StoreGrid backup server uses the MySQL 5.0 database. All these are bundled together in the StoreGrid Cloud AMI … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, AWS, EBS, EC2, MSP, Online Backups, S3, StoreGrid, VAR
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 1 Comment »
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