Upon Further Examination: Mozy

“Embrace the Cloud”. These are the thoughts many people go through when they finally decide to sign up for Mozy. Mozy is a secure online backup service that individual customers and small business use. Mozy has been a topic a few times on BlackWeb 2.0 (here and here) and now it is time to take a deeper look.

After signing up for the service, your data can be backed up at whichever intervals you choose (for example weekly or daily) and Mozy is smart enough to only save new files and existing files that have been changed. Think of all of your music, photographs and documents safely stored somewhere you’d have access to where ever you may be. The traditional methods of storing things on an external hard drive or on CD’s (yes some people still use CD’s to store data) is still effective. However, what if those items are stolen or destroyed? Mozy can ease your concerns. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has the backing of the well known EMC Corporation. At first, many people are concerned about what happens to their data if the company goes out of business. Because the company has the strong backing of EMC this eases reliability concerns.

Mozy offers a variety of solutions for receiving your backup which include getting a DVD mailed to you or online syncing. The price points are surprisingly affordable. For as low as $4.95/month you can have unlimited data backup. Pay for an entire year at once and you get one month free. Pay for two years at once and you get three months free. A simple download of the software on a Windows or MAC PC/laptop and you are off and running. One of the best features of Mozy it that it provides “versioning.” This means that you can store yesterday’s renditions as well as today’s renditions of your files with each backup, allowing you to pull data from different backup dates. You can go as far back as 30 days. Business owners there is a product for you as well. Mozy Pro is available and they have a price for desktop computers ($3.95 for the license + $0.50/GB per month) and for servers ($6.95 for the license + $0.50/GB per month). Another fun fact is that Mozy can now be translated into 9 non-English languages – German, Greek, British English, Castillian Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Slovenian.

I am a huge fan of Mozy and I feel that this service is a necessity for your personal or business tool belt. What would you do if you spilled something on your computer and lost everything? If you are nervous about paying for Mozy just give it a try, you can get 2GB of storage for free and then you can make your decision.

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