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Keep up with what’s cooking hot here in Vembu by following us on twitter @vembustoregrid. Going forward we plan to use twitter regularly to announce important #product / #release updates and #interesting #facts which might be of great value to you. RT(We are planning to use twitter in a more interactive way rather than making you receptive to the news @vembustoregrid). If you have a question which is too short for an email or too long to compose feel free to simply tweet us @vembustoregrid and will have it responded #ASAP.
Start following us @vembustoregrid as you might be missing … Read the rest
Tags: @vembustoregrid, StoreGrid, twitter, Vembu
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Vembu Technologies acquires CloudNucleus – Enhances Cloud Based Data Protection services for Managed Service Providers and Managed Hosting Providers
We are really excited to announce our recent acquisition of CloudNucleus – an expert Continuous Data Protection technology developer with special focus on Disaster Recovery services for Windows, Linux and Virtual environments. We have known the CloudNucleus team for quite some time now and bumped into each other quite often since both the companies were catering towards the same segment with the vision to offer cost effective Backup and Disaster Recovery services. The synergy between our two companies was great and we thought it would greatly benefit our present channel of 2600+ Managed Service Providers and Managed Hosting Providers to … Read the rest
Tags: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Failover Virtualization, P2P, P2V, StoreGrid, Vembu, Vembu acquires CloudNucleus
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Amazon gets calculative
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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 … Read the rest
Tags: amazon, AWS, Online Backup, StoreGrid, Vembu
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Why Google will kill the “I’m feeling Lucky” button
Google is key to our business! We spend a lot of time studying how people looking for online backup solutions found us – through the organic & paid results on Google.
Besides this affinity for many things ‘Google’, three other events inspired this post:
a) Google announced its quarterly results earlier this month. Though revenues were almost stagnant, Google managed to deliver a higher net income of $ 1.48 bn (Qtr ending June 30, 2009)
b) Techcrunch says Bing users are twice as likely to click on ads than Google users.
c) I clicked on the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button … Read the rest
Tags: google, im feeling lucky, Online Backup, StoreGrid, Vembu, wall street
Posted in General, Online Backup | 17 Comments »
Backup – Coming soon to a theatre near you
Ah, the price of fame!
Tim McGuire of “The Backup Plan” has been offering his customers ‘Vembu powered’ online backup services since January 2007. His company’s website is http://thebackupplan.com
All’s been well, and Tim has been steadily signing up new customers and backing them up!
However, in recent times, in spite of more business, and a huge traffic surge, a smaller proportion of his website visitors are really keen on his backup services!What happened? Well, Hollywood happened…
I have Google Alerts set up for various terms, and ‘backup’ is obviously one of them. As a consequence, I get snippets on … Read the rest
Tags: backup, Jennifer Lopez, JLo, Online Backup, StoreGrid, The Backup Plan, Vembu
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Should you seed your backup? Ask Wolfram Alpha!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months or mistook it for a new version of Wolf, you’ve probably heard of the Wolfram Alpha engine and the (wrong) comparisons to Google.
For starters, Wolfram Alpha is NOT a search engine – its (what they call) a “computational knowledge engine” – it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
Slight detour to StoreGrid…
StoreGrid has a feature called “Local to Remote Migration” (LtoR) wherein you can ‘seed’ a backup server with the 1st full … Read the rest
Tags: LtoR, managed services, Online Backup, StoreGrid, Vembu, Wolfram Alpha
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Will the real data please stand up? A look at deduplication in the online backup world
Talk about data deduplication (in the backup and archiving domain) seems to be gaining a fair amount of momentum in the last few years! Most enterprise backup software vendors like Symantec (Veritas), EMC (Avamar) etc. support deduplication in some form or the other – some do deduplication in the source system (that is being backed up) and others do deduplication at the target (backup/storage server). There are also pure “deduplication based storage hardware vendors” like Data Domain who have gained considerable traction in the enterprise.
I am actually quite surprised by the hype around deduplication and the adoption it … Read the rest
Tags: Checksums, Deduplication, Encryption, Online Backup, Remote Backup, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Synthetic Full Backup in the online backup world – Are we inviting trouble?
We have been noticing an increase in the number of ‘prospective partners’ asking if StoreGrid supports the synthetic full backup feature. StoreGrid does not yet support this feature as we have always given a low priority to this feature in the past. But now that it is being frequently asked for, we have started implementing it and hope to have this feature in the next few months. Though we would always like to give our partners as much choice and flexibility while using StoreGrid for their online backup services business, this particular feature has been haunting me for sometime. I … Read the rest
Tags: Data Security, Differential Backup, Encryption, Full Backup, Incremental Backup, Online Backup, Restores, StoreGrid, Synthetic Full Backup, Versioning
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 18 Comments »
Interview by BackupAnyTime
I was interviewed by John O’Neill of Ireland based online backup service provider BackuupAnyTime back in August, 2008. This was part of a series of interviews John was doing with executives from the data backup industry. One of our customers happened to read it recently and he wrote us saying it may be a good idea to post my interview in our blog or at least have a post with a link to that interview. He felt the views I expressed in the interview are quite relevant to our customer and partner base. So here is the link to the … Read the rest
Tags: data backup, interview with Sekar Vembu, online backup services, StoreGrid
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