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HEROware and Vembu Technologies Announce OEM Partnership

Delivering Unified Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution to SMB Customers

SAN CLEMENTE, CA. April 1, 2012-HEROware, Inc. the leader in Real-Time Server Protection with Instant Failover and Disaster Recovery in Secure-Cloud, today announced a new original equipment manufacturing (OEM) partnership with Vembu Technologies, the leader in data protection and disaster recovery software. With this partnership, HEROware extends its product line to include the entire feature rich backup and restore offering from Vembu’s flagship product StoreGrid. This strategic partnership will bring significant benefit to service providers, resellers and businesses world-wide looking for a robust business continuity and disaster recovery solution.

HEROware will rebrand Vembu StoreGrid and market this combined solution through MSP’s and VAR’s world-wide; rapidly increasing market share in the US and abroad for both Vembu Technologies and HEROware.

“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.” Mr. Vembu continued “In addition, our current MSP partners looking to diversify into offering disaster recovery 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 to revolutionize the Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR) industry by creating an SMB solution with Enterprise features. Built upon a rock-solid Intel® hardware platform and Double-Take® Software’s, award winning, patented replication technology for Windows Servers, HERO-Defender is the first and only appliance-based BDR solution that provides continuous, Real-Time Byte Level Replication with Total Recovery In Minutes™. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.HEROware.com.

Vembu Technologies is an established leader in providing flexible, reliable, and cost-effective managed cloud based IT solutions, specifically, cloud storage, online backup and cloud content management for small and medium businesses. Vembu has won many awards including 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. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.vembu.com.