Comments on: Holy Mozy, EMC Moves In. There Goes The Neighborhood

By: Cucku Uses Skype to Backup Your Family’s Data

Cucku Uses Skype to Backup Your Family’s Data — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:01:59 +0000

[...] to use the free version even if you go pro and become what Ellison likes to call “the mini Mozy” of your [...]

By: Carbonite CEO: Online Backups Sell - GigaOM

Carbonite CEO: Online Backups Sell - GigaOM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:57:38 +0000

[...] that explains why EMC acquired Mozy for $76 million and Symantec paid $123 million for Swapdrive. Carbonite wouldn’t mind a pay-day like that: [...]

By: alan

alan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:32:36 +0000

I finally found a guide to online backup!
It’s got lots of useful info on the most popular services!
It’s a great way to protect and share computer files.
I found it on wikipedia but I put it online at:
mini guide to online backup

By: Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:08:28 +0000

[...] online data storage platform. Press Release | TechCrunch | GigaOm | [...]

By: Thunderberry » Blog Archive » Hardware: EMC gets cozy with Mozy, but will consumers bite?

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:21:43 +0000

[...] I believes, explains why the storage-hardware maker is getting into the consumer business with its $76 million purchase of Mozy, an online data-backup service. With only 180,000 customers, the purchase price seems high, as [...]

By: EMC & SAP Heading Into Cloud Computing Together? | Virtualization.com

EMC & SAP Heading Into Cloud Computing Together? | Virtualization.com — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:02:09 +0000

[...] product, namely MozyEnterprise, an upgraded version of automated backup service Mozy that it acquired last year. EMC reportedly said earlier this month it plans to sell Mozy’s services to large [...]

By: Nita

Nita — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:14:34 +0000

Hi, i try both Mozy, and i found that are quite slow during the back up process. Furthermore, their back up is not in real time but you have to schedule timings. Recently i try also a new start up from Europe, Memopal (www.memopal.com) faster and with real time back up. Much better i think.

By: Office Backups: The Journey, Part 1 » Solo Technology

Office Backups: The Journey, Part 1 » Solo Technology — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:58:36 +0000

[...] — I found them to be quite helpful and very responsive until just recently. I suspect their recent acquisition news has caused a large growth in business? Great bunch of folks [...]

By: David Friend

David Friend — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:06:54 +0000

I'm the CEO of Carbonite, Mozy's arch competitor. Frankly, I think EMC made a very smart move. Even if you have big iron backup products like Veritas, you're probably not doing a good job of backing up laptops and desktops. I know that road warriors are frequently shocked (when they leave they computers in a taxi somewhere) to find out that the only thing on their laptops that was being backed up regularly is email. People lose a lot more data to hard drive crashes, theft, and other disasters today than they do to viruses. Someday hundreds of millions of PCs will be running online backup applications like Mozy and Carbonite. This is going to be a very large market and $76M could well look like peanuts to get a good product at the perfect time in an exploding market. David Friend, CEO Carbonite, Inc. Carbonite Online Backup

By: dmy

dmy — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:11:11 +0000

Hey, speaking of CrashPlan — I use it and it has saved my #@^ a few times with amazingly fast restore. Mozy might be the best of breed gen 2 product, HOWEVER, all online backup has limits and it is the past. Too bad for EMC. Gen 3 is the future – I backup to mulitple destinations (i.e. laptop to desktop, work to home) so I know exactly where my data is and how to get it. I’m not comfortable with all my eggs in one basket. Also not comfortable with weeks to restore. Last week I restored a document in less than 30 seconds! Also a backup ‘product’ versus a backup ‘service’ is much cheaper, considering how much data I store.