ParaScale / Vembu Webinar Outlines How to Setup Online Backup Services to a Storage Cloud

CUPERTINO, CA – May 14, 2009 – ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions, today announced that it will co-host a complimentary webinar with Vembu Technologies entitled, “Leveraging Cloud Storage for Online Backup Services.” This live presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 12PM ET / 11AM CT / 9AM PT / 17:00 GMT.

Mr. Sajai Krishnan, ParaScale CEO, and Lakshmanan Narayan, Vembu Technologies’ President, will discuss how companies can generate recurring revenues with a managed online backup service using Vembu’s best-of-breed backup software and ParaScale’s cloud storage solution that uses commodity hardware.

During this one-hour webinar, attendees will learn:

How service providers can combine StoreGrid’s online backup solution with ParaScale’s cloud storage technology to offer a scalable, easy to manage and highly redundant online backup service to their customers with minimal upfront capital costs.
What requirements service providers need to keep in mind while deploying the StoreGrid backup server on a ParaScale cloud so that they can leverage the best of both technologies.
What advantages the combined solution offers by creating a scalable cloud infrastructure that automates data management tasks and greatly minimizes administrative overhead and costs.

“Service providers are always looking for innovative, new storage solutions that let their customers incrementally add new capabilities and capacity as their business dictates,” said Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScale. “Combining cloud storage software with an online backup system enables service providers to scale their own backup services business without requiring huge upfront capital costs. This webinar will outline the requirements for, and advantages of, setting up online backup services to a private cloud.”

“Implementing and managing storage infrastructure is one of the most complex but core tasks for any online backup service provider,” said Lakshmanan Narayan, President, Vembu Technologies. “Our alliance with ParaScale to offer this winning backup solution reduces this complexity and enables service providers to deliver truly scalable and reliable backup services.”

About ParaScale, Inc.

ParaScale is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is focused on addressing the exploding bulk storage requirements for unstructured data including digital content and archival data. By combining ParaScale software and buyer-selected standard servers, service providers can build different types of public clouds and offer a variety of cloud storage services, while enterprises can start small and build their own corporate clouds within their own network. For more information visit, www.parascale.com

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, which backs up desktops and servers, comes in three editions. StoreGrid Service Provider Edition powers the managed online backup services business of thousands of MSPs, VARs, ISPs and Managed Hosting Providers. StoreGrid Professional and Education Editions are trusted by thousands of SMBs and educational institutions worldwide for on-premise and centralized backups for their geographically distributed and heterogeneous environments. Vembu has won many awards and has been recognized by various leading industry bodies. For more information, please visit www.vembu.com

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