Robinson sees a bright future for the service as data becomes more mobile and must be accessed from anywhere, and backing up smartphone users’ photos, financial documents and contacts is a possible market too. Mozy also boasts partnerships with Cox Business, Comcast, McAfee, ChinaTelecom and Clearlybusiness, a subsidiary of Barclays Bank. “It’s definitely a trend that we’re seeing, these larger businesses turning toward the cloud,” Robinson told Enterprise Storage Forum. The service now protects about 30 petabytes of data.Įven before EMC acquired Mozy, the service had signed up GE as a customer, and Dave Robinson, Mozy’s vice president of marketing, said more and more large corporations are using the service. Mozy boasts more than a million consumer users and 50,000 businesses, up 250 percent in the 2 1/2 years EMC has owned the service. MozyHome 2.0 and MozyPro 2.0 get faster upload speeds and lower bandwidth usage, interface and setup improvements and Mozy 2xProtect, a new feature that allows Mozy users to back up to a local external drive in addition to Mozy’s online data centers. EMC (NYSE: EMC) has boosted the performance of its Mozy online backup service and added support for local disk backup.ĮMC is calling the updates version 2.0 of the online backup service it acquired in 2007.

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