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Launching Cloud Content Management Service for Channel Partners – SYNCBLAZE

N Sai — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:39:35 +0000

The year 2012 is shaping up to be a defining moment for Vembu’s cloud services portfolio. We are immensely delighted to announce the launch of the business focused edition for our cloud content management solution – SyncBlaze! With this premier solution, we hope to make it easier for solution providers serving the small and midsize business market to offer robust, cost-effective, high performance content management solutions in the cloud. We believe that there is a strong demand for this productivity boosting proposition from businesses adopting the cloud paradigm.

We now have diverse options suiting the different market segments – Zukmo for Consumers and SyncBlaze for MSPs/VARs and we are in the process of bundling the SyncBlaze service as an on premise edition for channel partners interested in hosting the services within the bounds of their infrastructure and storage domains.

FREE TRIAL

We have introduced a free trial period of 30 days for our service providers which enables them to go for a test drive and get a hands-on feel of this service. For trying out our service, MSPs just need to fill up the minimal information requested in the SyncBlaze channel Signup page. The SyncBlaze support team will then connect with the respective Resellers and guide them in registering their accounts. Our company home page will also be redesigned in the near future to reference all our cloud solution offerings and it will provide for a way to redirect interested parties to the registration page.

We will soon be sharing the details on Pricing in our website.

KEY FEATURES

A number of core features in Sync Blaze are based on the functional adoption of its predecessor and popular customer oriented offering, Zukmo, which has been packaged and branded for business suitability.

The main features for the business edition are as follows:

Enables your customers to securely store all types of business content with version control.
Facilitates simplified file sharing with employees/clients etc. without the need for Emails/FTP/ Shared File servers to exchange business critical documents.
Provides Universal Access from any Workstation, iPhone, Android, iPad etc. through the mobile web platform, desktop utilities and browser extensions.
User friendly Collaboration for multidisciplinary teams to view/edit files instantly
Offers a centralized searchable repository for all end user content – Files, Web content, Notes, Google Apps Docs, Emails & Social media
Collect and Organize tagged Google Apps Docs, Emails, Notes, RSS feeds, Bookmarks, Social & Embedded media
Reseller and Customer Administration module for control and configuration
Powered by Amazon AWS – HIPAA, SOX & PCI Compliant infrastructure.

For starters, we have a Features page with a snapshot of the capabilities and also a more detailed Learn More section that covers each of the features in greater depth. We will also be featuring a series of blog posts covering the important functionalities in more depth with relevant information, illustrations and videos in some cases. Also, watch our blog space for more product updates.

During the past couple of months, we have been connecting and conversing with some of the partners who had expressed interest in providing SyncBlaze as a value added service to their customers. We hope to be aggressively marketing and communicating with many more partners & resellers to increase the brand awareness and also to strongly leverage their suggestions, requests and feedback to further refine our product development roadmap.

Vembu Home v1.0 beta supports File Synchronization & File Sharing

arul — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:49:01 +0000

We just rolled out a new version of Vembu Home that has important new features which will make it easier to synchronize your data across multiple computers/devices and also allow you to share files with your friends and colleagues online.

With Vembu Home Synchronization feature, you can seamlessly work on a document from your office PC or your home PC without having to copy files back and forth. Once you add a document to be synchronized with Vembu Home, the document will be automatically synchronized to any number of devices you want the document to be available.

Configuring Vembu Home to sync your data

After installing Vembu Home in your computer, register for free Vembu Home account by accessing Vembu Home Agent console,

Once you complete with the registration process, login to Vembu Home Agent Console.

Once logged in, you don’t have to use the Vembu Home Agent Console to synchronize your files. You can simply sync your data right from your Windows explorer as you browse files.

Right-click on a file or folder from your Windows Explorer, select Sync with Vembu Home and then choose either one of the following option to synchronize your data across multiple devices.

Copy to sync folder – Choosing this option will copy the selected file or folder for synchronization to the Vembu Sync folder. You need to manually do this every time you change the file in the original location so that the changes would be synchronized to the Vembu Home Cloud and subsequently to other devices you have configured.

Sync from current location – Choosing this option will include the selected file or folder for Synchronization from its current location – without copying to the Vembu Sync folder. If you modify the file, the synchronization process will be automatically synchronize the modified content to the Vembu Home Cloud and subsequently to other devices you have configured.

Sharing files Online through Vembu Home

If you need to share some of your files with your friends or colleagues online, Vembu Home is a simple and secure tool to achieve this. You can upload and share files online from your desktop with a single click.

Right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, select “Sync with Vembu Home” and then choose “Upload and Share” option to share files online.

Upload and share – Choosing this option will upload the selected file to Vembu Home Cloud and provide you with a link you could share with others.

For more details on Vembu Home’s File Synchronization & File Sharing features, please refer this document http://home.vembu.com/features.php

If you haven’t installed the Vembu Home yet, now is the time to do it. We will be adding more and more exciting features in the near future. If you are an existing user, please find the instructions to upgrade to the latest version of Vembu Home from here.

The above post was written by Arul Prabhu of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.

Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.

Amazon gets calculative

lux — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:24:09 +0000

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 resolution is 1024 x 768 (or lower) – see the screenshot above.

The five use cases they have are (comments in brackets are my own):

A marketing website (bandwidth intensive; requests from visitors)
A Web App (would use more of computing resources, including DB)
A Media application (storage & bandwidth intensive)
HPC Cluster (CPU intensive)
Disaster Recovery & Backup (storage intensive and computing to a lesser degree)

Take the numbers with a pinch of salt (an ounce, in the case of DR & Backup). But that’s not the point – I think it is pretty bold of them to hazard a guess knowing fully well that one size won’t fit all…

Rather than take the numbers at face value, you should focus on the AWS services in the ‘mix’, i.e. the different services that AWS assume you will use for each scenario. It serves to give you a good idea of the services you should be looking at.

We’ll take a more detailed look and provide some data that’s more relevant to StoreGrid + AWS deployments. Stay tuned.

The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.

Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.

Want free WiFi? Head to the G.Y.M.

lux — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:37:01 +0000

Apologies for the corny headline. This has nothing to do with working out.

But it is good news for all those laptops that are backing up online…

G.Y.M. is short for Google, Yahoo & Microsoft. The three companies seem to be in the midst of a flurry of FREE WiFi announcements. Here’s stuff that came through from G.Y.M. in the last 48 hours:

Google announced free WiFi at 47 airports – through the holiday season and into January 2010. They even have a FreeHolidayWifi web site on this. In what could easily be spun as a “limit the joy to Microsoft” tactic, Seattle airport joins the list of 47 a little later.

Yahoo announced free WiFi at Times Square, NYC – for a whole year.

Microsoft, not to be outdone, and in an effort to popularize Bing, has announced an interesting promotion going with JWire. Their “search for access” program offers a session of free Wi-Fi access in exchange for a search on Bing. Users are presented with their search results, and they can then enjoy free Internet service for a specified time period.

So there, you have it. Connectivity can’t be your excuse this season – for not backing up! I’m curious though – how did the free WiFi idea hit G.Y.M. – at almost the same time (all of the above announcements happened in the last 48 hours)

Crunchgear has an article on this too.

Prediction: Amazon will make a similar announcement – soon.

Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.

All Clouds are not Equal

lux — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:59:05 +0000

Some time ago, we’d written about David Chappell’s talk on Windows Azure, and why it was different. I’d also mentioned that I’d share the slide deck once I got it from David. Here it is.

(the ppt is cued to slide 27 which is where the fun stuff begins – the comparisons with other platforms. As we said earlier, the ‘neutrality’ with which this was presented was refreshing)

Read on…

The Windows Azure Platform a Perspective Chappell

Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.

Cloud Cloud Maybe

lux — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:55:07 +0000

StoreGrid & Vembu Home help you backup your files, music and important music videos like this one:
Cloud Cloud Maybe – A parody featuring the usual suspects in Cloud Computing & Storage

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Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.

Vembu Home is ready to save (backup) the world

lux — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:47:25 +0000

After over a year of work (on top of the existing StoreGrid engine), Vembu Home is finally ready.

We took all the time we needed as we wanted Vembu Home to be unlike anything you’ve seen. And we (obviously) think, it is unlike any backup software you’ve seen- and will see for some time, at least.

The obvious question first. Why is Vembu Home different?

a) It’s iPhone inspired user interface is light years ahead of anything else. With its fluidity and intuitiveness, people may actually start enjoying backing up.

b) It is the first and only consumer backup solution that supports “free local backup” to disk and optional Amazon Cloud backup

c) The software is FREE – yes, FREE as in beer. Vembu Home is a zillion times better than whatever software you’re using to backup to your external hard disks. So if you want to junk that (software) and use some seriously potent stuff, go right ahead.

d) Our OPTIONAL online backup service is built on the Amazon Cloud. We’ve been doing this ‘Amazon stuff’ for over a year now. Amazon has been doing this ‘cloud stuff’ for years. In fact, they started it!

e) For the technically inclined: Vembu Home is built on Adobe Flex+AIR. It’s the only backup software to leverage this cutting edge platform.

f) It is built on proven technology. Vembu’s StoreGrid has been around for over 4 years, runs on over 100,000 computers, and is ‘under the hood’ of 1,500 service providers across the globe.

g) More than backup – there’s a drag & drop box, a web archive, online restores, and the ability to share backed up files by email – from a browser. It’s too much of effort to detail everything here. Get your FREE copy, instead.

Vembu Home is currently in Private Beta and we’re limiting users – for now.

You can use the (limited) invitation code: BACKUPSCANBEFUN

Where does Vembu Home fit into our existing product portfolio & market focus? Please come back tomorrow for a ‘revealing’ blog post on this –same bat time, same bat channel.

Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.