I was interviewed by John O’Neill of Ireland based online backup service provider BackuupAnyTime back in August, 2008. This was part of a series of interviews John was doing with executives from the data backup industry. One of our customers happened to read it recently and he wrote us saying it may be a good idea to post my interview in our blog or at least have a post with a link to that interview. He felt the views I expressed in the interview are quite relevant to our customer and partner base. So here is the link to the interview “Backupanytime interview with Sekar Vembu of Vembu technologies“.
Hope you enjoy reading it!!
Note: Backupanytime does not use our product, StoreGrid, for their backup service. I believe they use our competitor’s product.
I just don’t understand why a competitive company engages itself as a journalist! It looks like that backupanytime people have a lot of time in their hands.
There are other sites doing CEO interviews of the online backup industry.
Jeremey,
Frankly, I do not see anything wrong with it. Different people have different interests. In fact, I appreciate the enthusiasm of backuanytime in doing something like this. I personally would not do something like this because this does not interest me very much. But I can’t help getting impressed with people who possess skills which I seem to lack. Even if backupanytime does this for marketing themselves there is nothing wrong. If we are running a business we need to market ourselves in order to grow. That is a fact of life. And there are hundreds of ways to do that. Coming up with an innovative and cost effective ways to market one’s business is the biggest challenge every business faces. As long as the innovation does not violate ethical standards there is nothing wrong with it.
Sekar.
Crazily enough, I chanced upon the Backupanytime interview in an MSP Mentor article (http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/10/15/vembu-ceo-sustainable-economic-growth-will-resume/) about your company.
I was wondering at that time on how you guys didn’t mention the interview in your own site! Better late than never, I guess?
I read your article but i don’t think anything wrong in it.