Comments on: Holy Mozy, EMC Moves In. There Goes The Neighborhood http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:16:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: alan http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-885547 alan Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:32:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-885547 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: <a href="http://memopal.clickmeter.com/495916.html" rel="nofollow">mini guide to online backup</a> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-879364 Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp Wed, 21 May 2008 15:08:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-879364 [...] online data storage platform. Press Release | TechCrunch | GigaOm | [...] [...] online data storage platform. Press Release | TechCrunch | GigaOm | [...]

]]> By: Thunderberry » Blog Archive » Hardware: EMC gets cozy with Mozy, but will consumers bite? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-876473 Thunderberry » Blog Archive » Hardware: EMC gets cozy with Mozy, but will consumers bite? Fri, 02 May 2008 00:21:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-876473 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-861874 EMC & SAP Heading Into Cloud Computing Together? | Virtualization.com Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:02:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-861874 <p>[...] 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 [...]</p> [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-859051 Nita Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:14:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-859051 <p>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.</p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-690311 Office Backups: The Journey, Part 1 » Solo Technology Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:58:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-690311 <p>[...] — 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 [...]</p> [...] — 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-615937 David Friend Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:06:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-615937 <p>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. <a href="http://www.carbonite.com" rel="nofollow"> Carbonite Online Backup </a></p> 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 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-596243 dmy Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:11:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-596243 <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: Jason http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-596217 Jason Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:51:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-596217 <p>Kind of surprising EMC likes Mozy as it rewrites much of the underlying storage system, and I would love to see a more cross platform solution like CrashPlan which delivers both a subscription and an own-it solution for users and businesses. Seems like this market is set to grow in any case.</p> Kind of surprising EMC likes Mozy as it rewrites much of the underlying storage system, and I would love to see a more cross platform solution like CrashPlan which delivers both a subscription and an own-it solution for users and businesses. Seems like this market is set to grow in any case.

]]> By: Little Bo Peep http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-582666 Little Bo Peep Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:47:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-582666 <p>$76M for this unreliable service is a little steep. I think EMC doesn't realize that Amazon S3 based services are Mozy-killers. They should have developed one or bought one of the companies building it (www.beinsync.com, www.jungledrive.com and others).</p> $76M for this unreliable service is a little steep. I think EMC doesn’t realize that Amazon S3 based services are Mozy-killers. They should have developed one or bought one of the companies building it (www.beinsync.com, http://www.jungledrive.com and others).

]]> By: Erich http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-582372 Erich Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:20:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-582372 <p>How can subscription-based internet backup solutions compete with all-you-can-eat "back up to a friend" solutions like Fubario (<a href="http://fubario.com" rel="nofollow">http://fubario.com</a>) and CrashPlan (<a href="http://crashplan.com" rel="nofollow">http://crashplan.com</a>) ?</p> <p>I guess maybe SMBs will care about SLAs a bit more, and I haven't looked to see if Mozy has an SLA...</p> How can subscription-based internet backup solutions compete with all-you-can-eat “back up to a friend” solutions like Fubario (http://fubario.com) and CrashPlan (http://crashplan.com) ?

I guess maybe SMBs will care about SLAs a bit more, and I haven’t looked to see if Mozy has an SLA…

]]> By: Nathan http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-581816 Nathan Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:14:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-581816 <p>I use both Amazon S3 and Mozy--They both have their place. At home, I pay $50/year for Mozy and store approximately 150 gigabytes of data, while I work I use JungleDisk and Amazon S3 to back up our servers. The sweet spot for Mozy is their consumer product(MozyHome) which offers unlimited storage--my 150 gigabytes would cost me around $300/year on Amazon S3. However, for corporate usage (MozyPro), that same 150 gigabytes would cost almost $1,000 per year. So, for personal usage, MozyHome is hard to beat, but for corporate usage, Amazon S3 makes the most economic sense.</p> I use both Amazon S3 and Mozy–They both have their place. At home, I pay $50/year for Mozy and store approximately 150 gigabytes of data, while I work I use JungleDisk and Amazon S3 to back up our servers. The sweet spot for Mozy is their consumer product(MozyHome) which offers unlimited storage–my 150 gigabytes would cost me around $300/year on Amazon S3. However, for corporate usage (MozyPro), that same 150 gigabytes would cost almost $1,000 per year. So, for personal usage, MozyHome is hard to beat, but for corporate usage, Amazon S3 makes the most economic sense.

]]> By: Wily http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-580174 Wily Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:27:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-580174 <p>Amazon S3 greatly undermines Mozy's revenue model, which had been established before Amazon has made storage easy and commoditized. Companies such as DigiSense, BeInSync and others recognize that and offer superior and possible cheaper online storage to Mozy's less-reliable datacenter.</p> Amazon S3 greatly undermines Mozy’s revenue model, which had been established before Amazon has made storage easy and commoditized. Companies such as DigiSense, BeInSync and others recognize that and offer superior and possible cheaper online storage to Mozy’s less-reliable datacenter.

]]> By: Mick http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-580049 Mick Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:07:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-580049 <p>I don't think EMC understands the economics of online backup. They just bought a company that pays user to store that with them. That's right. Mozy pays users to store data with them. That is fine in the startup world when you are flush with venture capital, but how long will EMC continue to pay people to use it's consumer service?</p> I don’t think EMC understands the economics of online backup. They just bought a company that pays user to store that with them. That’s right. Mozy pays users to store data with them. That is fine in the startup world when you are flush with venture capital, but how long will EMC continue to pay people to use it’s consumer service?

]]> By: Mr. Chips http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-579869 Mr. Chips Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:13:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-579869 <p>I am a Mozy user since their beginnings. I also have the corporate version for our server installed.. It is an amazing and valuable service. i have tried all other guys out there and Mozy is hands-down the best and easy to use service.</p> <p>So, for me, as an individual and as a company, the value of the service is gold... i guess that he price paid for Mozy makes sense, and more in an era were big multimedia files are invading our harddrives...</p> I am a Mozy user since their beginnings. I also have the corporate version for our server installed.. It is an amazing and valuable service. i have tried all other guys out there and Mozy is hands-down the best and easy to use service.

So, for me, as an individual and as a company, the value of the service is gold… i guess that he price paid for Mozy makes sense, and more in an era were big multimedia files are invading our harddrives…

]]> By: Howard Lindzon » Adding EMC...Here's Why http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-578345 Howard Lindzon » Adding EMC...Here's Why Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:24:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/23/mozy-emc/#comment-578345 <p>[...] They are spreading their wings, paying up mind you, but I like it. Here is their latest acquisition . [...]</p> [...] They are spreading their wings, paying up mind you, but I like it. Here is their latest acquisition . [...]

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