Vembu Technologies has announced the Beta release of Vembu StoreGrid Cloud AMI which facilitates deploying StoreGrid on Amazon's Cloud Computing Infrastructure.

"Cloud computing options are rapidly gaining momentum! As an aspiring leader in the online backup category, we recognize the need to provide the choice of deploying StoreGrid on leading cloud computing platforms -- and nothing beats Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 for a start," said Sekar Vembu, CEO of Vembu Technologies.

So far, Vembu Technologies have primarily worked with partners who are willing to host StoreGrid in their own data centers and offer online backup services to their customers. With the StoreGrid Cloud AMI, any IT solution provider can now start an online backup service without any capital investment.

Down the line, Vembu will also be integrating with other leading Cloud Computing & Storage platforms.

The StoreGrid Cloud AMI Beta is currently available for Windows Server and CentOS Linux server. Other requisite modules like the MySQL 5.0 back-end database are bundled together in the StoreGrid Cloud AMI to facilitate ease of deployment for partners. As they move into their production release (scheduled for December 2008), the company is working on automating cloud deployments and making the setup process as seamless as possible for service providers.