Vembu Technologies Launches Centralized Data Backup & Disaster Recovery Software for Educational Institutions

StoreGrid Education Edition Available for Free 30-Day Trial

PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 10, 2009 – Vembu Technologies today announced the launch of its latest backup software solution specifically meant for the education market– the StoreGrid Education Edition. The product is being demonstrated this week at the EDUCAUSE NERCOMP event, and a free 30-day trial is being offered to all educational institutions.

StoreGrid Education Edition is designed as a comprehensive workstation and server backup solution for on-campus disk to disk (D2D) backups, with optional offsite replication capabilities. The software solution is ideally suited for colleges, universities, K-12, and other educational institutions.

“We are seeing a lot of interest from educational institutions in our backup products, universities in particular,” said Lakshmanan Narayan, President, Vembu Technologies. “StoreGrid’s feature set is perfectly suited for campus IT administrators managing distributed, heterogeneous environments.”

With StoreGrid’s Education Edition, IT departments in educational institutions can now ensure reliable, automated backups for faculty, staff and students. In addition to its centralized administration features and licensing, StoreGrid’s ability to interoperate across various operating systems strikes a chord among campus IT administrators. With support for various data types across desktops, laptops & servers - including MS Exchange, MSSQL and MySQL servers - StoreGrid is a truly comprehensive campus data backup solution that fits into any campus disaster recovery plan.

“We established StoreGrid at our institute one and a half years ago as a disk-to-disk backup solution. Since then we had no data loss but earned some thankful smiles from our colleagues,” said Martin Obermoser, Institute for Water Quality, Resource and Waste Management, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

StoreGrid can be deployed on local backup servers (on-campus), or on off-campus backup servers at a disaster recovery site. The product also supports the ability to leverage cloud storage platforms like Amazon and Nirvanix.

Vembu Technologies has an established and rapidly growing base of users for its Professional & Service Provider Editions. Its Service Provider Edition is trusted by more than 1,100 institutional service providers across the world, all of whom provide managed backup services to their customers.

Pricing & Availability

The StoreGrid Education Edition software solution is available for purchase now, with prices starting at $30 per computer. Detailed pricing can be found here. A free 30-day trial of StoreGrid Education Edition is now available for download.

About Vembu Technologies

Vembu Technologies is a leader in providing cost effective, network based, disk to disk backup software solutions. Vembu's flagship product, StoreGrid, powers both the on-premise and offsite backups of a rapidly growing worldwide base.

Vembu has won many awards and has been recognized by various leading industry bodies. Achievements include the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award and the "Red Herring 100 Asia" list of innovative companies. Vembu has regularly been featured on CRN's annual Emerging Vendors list, and was a finalist for a VAR Business Tech Innovator award and the Windows IT Pro award for Interoperability.