CloudBerry Lab is a vendor offering a cloud backup solution to managed service providers. Founded in 2008 and based on the Amazon Web Services platform, CloudBerry's Alexander Negrash took some time to speak with MSPAlliance about the company and their interest in working MSPs.
Who is CloudBerry? CloudBerry or CloudBerry Lab was started in 2008 with an idea to develop a simple file manager to help store and manage files on S3. I must say that today having AWS console, tons of documentation and dozens if not hundreds of Amazon S3 related software, it is not so hard to exploit S3 as it used to be in 2008. Back there it was only for developers and we built CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 and shared it with the community to allow easily access and manage Amazon S3 accounts. At the moment we have over 150 000 users of CloudBerry Explorer freeware version and we still see new users are coming.
Over the course of four years Amazon S3 grew as a platform and added advanced features, new cloud storage providers entered the market. Seeing that growth in cloud computing industry in general and cloud storage services in particular we rolled out CloudBerry Backup, a solution to automate files system backup to Amazon S3, Windows Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace and a bunch of other popular cloud services providers. Unlike other cloud backup solutions CloudBerry Backup allows users have their own public cloud storage storage account as a backup storage and benefit from low prices and other advantages of cloud storage.
How do MSPs play into the long term success of CloudBerry? We believe that Managed Service Providers are moving cloud backup technology to the masses. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) expected to become a $24 billion business within the next decade we suggest that instead of competing with Amazon's cloud, MSPs must find ways to leverage its growing presence, influence and capabilities. Among the prime opportunities: Integrating their managed backup services with AWS.
That's where CloudBerry Managed Backup enters the picture. It's integrated with Amazon Web Services, allowing MSPs to use their own AWS account to store customer backups on S3 (Simple Storage Service) or Glacier. The storage account is 100 percent owned and managed by a service provider. In other words, CloudBerry Lab doesn't have access to the customer data that MSPs store and manage in AWS. With CloudBerry Managed Backup MSPs manage the data, MSPs set end-customer pricing (applying a mark-up to AWS’s fees) and MSPs control their brand and the customer engagement.
