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Launching Cloud Content Management Service for Channel Partners – SYNCBLAZE

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.

Syncblaze Features

We now have diverse options suiting the different market segments – … Read the rest

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Posted in Amazon Cloud, Collaboration, Features, File Synchronization, New Release, SMB, SyncBlaze, Zukmo | 2 Comments »

Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Vendor, but What Your Vendor Can Do For You

Too often vendors have long and onerous requirements for their partners  to “qualify” to them to sell their solutions.  While I agree that it makes sense to set expectations between vendors and partners, vendors need to appreciate that partners are the feet on the street whose reputation is at stake every time they propose a solution to their customer.  As Lenin mentioned in his last post, commitment to the channel is of paramount importance for any MSP or MHP because nothing causes more heartache than a vendor who ends up competing with their partners from time to time.

Beyond building … Read the rest

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Posted in Marketing, Partner Program, Partner Zone, SMB | No Comments »

HP shutters its Upline online data backup service – Why commoditized online backup service is not a sustainable business

I was contacted by ChannelWeb to comment on HP’s decision to shutter their Upline online data backup business. The gist of what I commented was carried in the article “HP To Shutter Upline Online Storage Backup Service” by ChannelWeb’s Senior Editor Joseph F. Kovar. I felt it’s a good idea to post here my full comments along with my view about commodity online backup services like Carbonite and EMC’s Mozy.

Hope these are not perceived as just wishful thinking on my part. My comments are based on our experience supporting more than 1000 partners offering backup services … Read the rest

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Posted in CRN, Online Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 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 in Amazon Web Services

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

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Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 1 Comment »

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