Heroware and Vembu Announce Partnership
To deliver unified backup and DR to SMBs
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 25, 2012 at 3:38 pmHEROware, Inc. announced a OEM partnership with Vembu Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a data protection and DR software company.
With this partnership, HEROware extends its product line to include the entire
feature backup and restore offering from Vembu’s product
StoreGrid. This partnership will bring benefit to service
providers, resellers and businesses worldwide for a business
continuity and DR solution. HEROware will re-brand StoreGrid and market
this combined solution through MSP’s and VAR’s worldwide.
"We are extremely excited
to have this OEM agreement with Vembu Technologies. Our Technology team put in exhaustive
hours looking at all the backup products on the market and the Vembu
Technologies product stood up to our rigid testing", said Lynn
Shourds, CTO, president and co-founder of HEROware.
Sekar Vembu, CEO of Vembu Technologies, said: "The reliability and performance of StoreGrid
is an excellent complement to the HEROware
BDR platform. We believe this partnership will offer HEROware customers cost effective
and dependable solutions when it comes to the backup and disaster recovery of
their systems and data."
Vembu continued: "In
addition, our current MSP partners looking to diversify into offering DR services
can now obtain a full appliance based BDR solution from HEROware and still use
their favorite backup solution StoreGrid."
Fred Mayne, co-founder and EVP of Sales and Marketing for HEROware
said: "Our Partners have already
told us, finally you have done it, you have married on-site Business Continuity
with great Backup software in a cost effective, very easy to use and sell
solution."
In 2008, HEROware began a journey for the Backup &
Disaster Recovery (BDR) industry by creating an SMB solution with enterprise
features. Built upon a Intel hardware platform and Double-Take Software
patented replication technology for Windows Servers, HERO-Defender is an
appliance-based BDR solution that provides continuous, Real-Time Byte Level
Replication with recovery in minutes.