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Company Overview: Vembu Technologies develops data backup software for IT service providers, remote/branch offices, and small and medium businesses. The company has a focused thrust on enabling VARs/MSPs/ISPs become Online Backup service providers wherein they (the service providers) host and manage their SMB customers’ data backups and restores. Vembu’s product, “StoreGrid Service Provider Edition” currently powers the online backup business of over 550 (as of Jan 2008) service providers across the world.

The online backup market is booming, especially in the SMB segment. Vembu firmly believes that VARs, MSPs, ISPs and other service providers will play a pivotal role in accelerating this boom. Hence, the company has aligned its product architecture, business model and support towards helping service providers quickly and easily start their own online backup services.

Vembu has won many awards recognizing its ‘channel’ focus and innovative approach to data backups. Notable awards include CRN Emerging Vendors (2006 & 2007), Red Herring 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (Asia Pacific, 2007), and being a finalist in VAR Business’ Tech Innovation awards in 2007.

More details on Vembu Technologies are available at http://www.vembu.com

Product Description: Vembu StoreGrid Service Provider Edition is focused on helping the ‘channel’ offer their customers a powerful remote online backup service. This Edition is exclusively designed for VARs, MSPs, ISPs & systems integrators embarking on taking advantage of the booming demand for online backup solutions for SMBs.

StoreGrid’s deployment flexibility (laptops, desktops & servers), ability to work on Windows, Linux, MacOSX & FreeBSD, and refreshing Web Based User Interface (that allows for the channel partner to easily manage distributed deployments across customer sites) makes it an extremely relevant solution to the channel. StoreGrid helps channel partners set up their data backup services using standard ‘off the shelf’ infrastructure! Service Providers can scale to support thousands of users; powerful reporting, centralised licensing & a ‘built in’ invoicing module helps service providers manage their operations with ease. The multi-OS capability even helps service providers offer their Windows / Mac clients backup services with assembled Linux Servers at their co-lo / datacenter.

StoreGrid facilitates all common backup tasks including documents, files, email clients like Outlook, Outlook Express & Thunderbird, file servers, Microsoft Exchange Server databases, Microsoft SQL databases & MySQL. Besides a refreshingly different User Interface, StoreGrid includes powerful compression, up to 448 bit encryption, various scheduling options, versioning and an intelligent approach to managing incremental data backups – an important feature in the context of online backups.

Details on StoreGrid’s Service Provider Edition are available at http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/online-backup.html