Vembu Offers Free Local Backup and Optional Amazon Cloud Backup
According to Vembu's Thursday announcement, Vembu Home is based on the company's StoreGrid technology, which is the enterprise data backup software currently running on more than 100,000 computers worldwide. Vembu Home offers unlimited local backup for free to your own computer, disk, or mapped drives, and/or optional Amazon Cloud backup with competitive pay-for-use rates.
"Our experience in the backup and recovery market has shown us that online backups work best for some data, while local backup works best for others, and sometimes you simply need a combination of the two," Vembu Technologies founder Sekar Vembu said in a statement. "Vembu Home consists of both options, so consumers can choose which method they're most comfortable with for protecting and storing their personal files."
Vembu Home's Amazon Cloud backup stores customer data in Amazon's geographically-distributed data centers, offering high data availability and reliability, and constant accessibility anytime from any computer or device with a web browser. Vembu Home is currently in Private Beta, which allows consumers to backup up to 500MB of data for free to Vembu/Amazon cloud servers.
The local backup option can be downloaded and installed on multiple computers for free, and includes an intuitive drag and drop interface. It is also the first backup application to be built using the Adobe Air+Flex platform. The software is available for download at home.vembu.com with the limited invitation code, "BACKMEUPSCOTTY".
