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Spend Less to Join the World’s Largest Gathering of Hosted Services Professionals

By Admin | June 18, 2009

 HostingCon 2009 is a great event for “hosting professionals” interested in learning more about new...

Should you Seed Your Backup? Ask Wolfram Alpha!

By Admin | May 19, 2009

Should you seed your backup? Ask Wolfram Alpha! Unless you've been living under a rock...

Vembu Technologies Partners With Caringo

By Admin | May 12, 2009

We’ve been talking to the folks at Caringo for some time now, and have been...

How to Win With StoreGrid and the Amazon Cloud!

By Admin | April 20, 2009

Individual Innovations Will Lift us Out of This Economic Calamity – Not Government Doles

By Sekar Vembu | March 5, 2009

While searching randomly on the web I came across my own interview by a blogger...

HP Shutters its Upline Online Data Backup Service – Why Commoditized Online Backup Service is not a Sustainable Business

By Sekar Vembu | March 1, 2009

I was contacted by ChannelWeb to comment on HP’s decision to shutter their Upline online...

Will the Real Data Please Stand Up? A look at Deduplication in the Online Backup World

By Sekar Vembu | February 11, 2009

Talk about data deduplication (in the backup and archiving domain) seems to be gaining a...

Carbonite (and Mozy’s) Achilles heel

By Admin | February 4, 2009

COMMODITY ONLINE BACKUP SERVICES CANNOT AFFORD TO PROPERLY SUPPORT THEIR CUSTOMERS. The next time someone...

Synthetic Full Backup in the Online Backup World – Are we Inviting Trouble?

By Sekar Vembu | January 28, 2009

We have been noticing an increase in the number of ‘prospective partners’ asking if StoreGrid...

Interview by BackupAnyTime

By Sekar Vembu | January 17, 2009

I was interviewed by John O’Neill of Ireland based online backup service provider BackuupAnyTime back...

Google will Abandon ‘Pure SaaS’ and take the ‘Software Plus Services’ Route – Courtesy Microsoft

By Sekar Vembu | January 15, 2009

So the inevitable is happening. At last, Google seems to be coming around to Microsoft’s software...

Government Appointed “Crumbs Pickers” take Charge at Satyam Computers! Why “In the Best Interests” Actions are a Dangerous Thing?

By Sekar Vembu | January 11, 2009

Note to our customers and partners: Before I get bashed up by some of our...