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Vembu’s Channel Strategy – A Reality Check
I am writing this in response to the concerns expressed by a few partners of ours on our strategy with Vembu Home online backup service for consumers and the upcoming Vembu Pro backup service for businesses (which we plan to offer to businesses exclusively through our partners). I want to clarify that Vembu Pro backup service is a result of many of our prospective partners expressing interest in reselling a branded backup service hosted and managed by us rather than hosting StoreGrid Service Provider Edition in their data center themselves and managing them.
Firstly, I want to state upfront that I … Read the rest
Tags: Channel Conflict, Channel Partners, data backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Vembu Channel Strategy, Vembu Home, Vembu Online Backup Service, Vembu Pro
Posted in General, Online Backup, Vembu Home, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
Vembu @ HostingCon2010
We are at the HostingCon 2010 in Austin, Texas and the atmosphere here is fantastic. We are excited about showing off the latest in Vembu StoreGrid for service providers.
Check out our booth #326, we’ll be showing off the latest in our product for managed hosting providers. A very good reason to do this is because Jay, our VP of Storage Services will be around to take questions on online backups and the latest in storage technology.
1) In the ‘latest’ category, the Flex Light interface for desktops and laptops is currently in beta and is soon to be released … Read the rest
Tags: Connectwise, cPanel, Event, Hosting Providers, Hostingcon, LevelPlatforms, Online Backup, Plesk, Remote Backup
Posted in Events, Marketing, Trends | 3 Comments »
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Backup and Restore with StoreGrid
With the release of StoreGrid v3.1 SP1, StoreGrid now supports Exchange Server 2010 database backup and restore. The v3.1 SP1 patch should be installed on both the backup server (and replication server) and in the client machines running StoreGrid v3.1. Remember this patch installs only on top of StoreGrid v3.1 installations.
VSS based backup of Exchange 2010
Unlike Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007 where StoreGrid uses Exchange Server’s ESE API (Extensible Storage Engine) for backing up live Exchange databases, in Exchange 2010 StoreGrid uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Services) based APIs. StoreGrid invokes the “Microsoft Exchange Writer” (comes with the … Read the rest
Tags: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server, Exchange Server Backup, Exchange Server Restore, Exchange VSS Backup, Internet Backup, Managed Service Providers, MSP, offsite backup, Online Backup, online backup software, Remote Backup, Vembu Online Backup
Posted in Microsoft, New Release, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, VARBusiness, Vembu StoreGrid | 3 Comments »
RIP – Floppy Drive, Will the Tape Drive soon follow?
Finally the day has come where people are no longer in need of Floppy Disks nor do they even care about its existence. Floppy Drives enjoyed nearly three decades as a popular and ubiquitous form of data storage and data transfer medium from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s. Yes, we all at one point of time used Floppy Drives and praised it usability when there was no alternate solution at that time which was cost effective and reliable. Now they have been largely superseded by USB Flash Drives, External Hard Drives, DVDs and Memory Cards. Many companies realized … Read the rest
Tags: Floppy Drive, offsite backup, Online Backup Vs Tape Based Backup, Remote Backup, Tape Drive
Posted in General, Marketing | 2 Comments »
The Path to SMB customers – a Treasure Hunt
Reaching out for SMB customers has more or less become like a treasure hunt for IT Industry folks. We know that there is a pot of gold at end of the tunnel. But the real problem is that we may not have the treasure map – the right path that will lead us to them.
Why it is difficult to reach SMBs.
Every adventure trip has its own challenges. SMBs are typically run by tight entrepreneurs, who are conservative in terms of budget and may not venture out into adopting new technologies without getting absolutely convinced of its ROI. SMBs … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, IT Service Providers, Managed Service Providers, Online Backup, Path to reach SMBs, Remote Backup, SMBs
Posted in General, Marketing, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, Vembu StoreGrid | 2 Comments »
SMB’s reaction to Cloud – a Pro/Con Analysis
Why many SMBs are reluctant to Cloud?
“Cloud Computing” – a buzz word that’s on the peak of Hype Cycle for quite some time now is still a ‘jargon’ to many SMBs and Mid Market Companies. It was interesting to see the results of the ‘cloud hosting awareness survey’ conducted by RackSpace that more than two thirds of the SMBs in US are not familiar with the term “Cloud Hosting” – Wow!
Now, two questions immediately arise in our mind. Is that the Small Businesses failed to grasp the cloud computing technology or the Cloud hosting providers done … Read the rest
Tags: Amazon Cloud, cloud computing, data backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, Small Business Cloud, SMBs reaction to cloud
Posted in Amazon Cloud, azure, General, Online Backup, Remote Backup | 5 Comments »
How do you want to name your backup service? – Ask Google
Are you offering an Online Backup Service? Then you must have come across a plethora of naming conventions for marketing your backup service. Some people call them Online Backup and some call them Remote Backup, Offsite Backup, Data Backup, Internet Backup, blah blah backup…. Wait! What difference does a naming convention is going to make to your backup service offering? The answer is simple. Ask Google.
As a Service Provider it becomes necessary to understand the terms that your customer uses and effectively communicate back and Market using the same ‘terms’. ‘Google Insights’ has the innate ability … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Google Insight report, Internet Backup, Managed Service Providers, Marketing Tips for Service Providers, offsite backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup
Posted in General, google, Marketing, Online Backup | 3 Comments »
TLM (Thought Leadership Marketing) for IT Service Providers
What the heck is this TLM? ‘Thought Leadership Marketing’ is a term that came on its own in the past few years. Here is a definition of Thought Leadership from raintoday.com .
“Thought Leadership centers on earning trust and credibility. Thought leaders are noticed by offering something different – information, insights and ideas, for instance.”
For IT service Providers who are wondering what this TLM can do for them, here is the answer. According to the recent press release by Gartner , Thought Leadership Marketing can be a powerful tool for IT service Providers.
Also … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, Marketing for MSPs, marketing ideas for IT service Providers, offsite backup, Online Backup, Remote Backup, thought leadership marketing, TLM for IT Service Providers
Posted in General, Marketing, Remote Backup, SP Edition | No Comments »
On Vembu & VC Investment
I keep getting emails from VC firms at regular intervals. I have had initial phone calls with many of them. But invariably there is no progress as we just do not act on raising money on our own because I fundamentally cannot get myself to pitch my business to a VC just to raise money. The reason is that I am uncomfortable doing a business plan on how I will scale the company. Because until we try something out we will never know whether it is going to work or not. It is always continuous experiments you run and figure … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, offsite backup, Remote Backup, Sekar Vembu and VC Investment, Vembu and VC, Vembu and VC Investment, Vembu Online Backup, Vembu Technologies | Angel Investors
Posted in General, Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Trends, VC Investment, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
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