Mozy Expanding Into Europe

Mozy (Decho Technology
International Ltd), provider of data protection and availability for
consumers and businesses, is seeing increasing demand for its enterprise online
backup solution based on some fundamental shifts in enterprise IT fueling that
growth and, as a result, is launching its MozyEnterprise product in Europe.

"As a result of three emerging
trends within enterprise IT the past three to four years – including the
ubiquity of distributed and increasingly-mobile workforces; the exploding
adoption of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets within business;
and increasing acceptance of cloud services within enterprise IT – we’re seeing
unprecedented demand from large businesses for MozyEnterprise, the enterprise
version of our award-winning online business backup service. We believe the
market is right to introduce MozyEnterprise to the European market,"
said Claire Galbois-Alcaix at Mozy.

Backed by EMC, MozyEnterprise complements traditional backup
solutions by supporting the IT demands of large organisations seeking more
advanced IT controls for managing backups and mobile data access for thousands
of geographically-dispersed employees. (A recent report from IDC shows that,
by 2012 there will be 129.5m mobile workers in Western Europe, surpassing the
total number in the USA.)

Via a web-based management console, IT administrators
can use MozyEnterprise to configure, deploy, and centrally manage the backup
and accessibility of data spread across desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile
devices. It also includes IT controls such as
sub-administration and custom configurations.

As ‘Bring Your Own Device’ policies become commonplace within
large organisations, data is being created, consumed, and stored on devices
other than traditional desktops and laptops. An increasingly-mobile workforce
is relying more on mobile devices, including smart phones and tablets, for
work-related tasks. A recent survey by Forrester of 10,000 global information
workers and 2,300 IT hardware decision-makers found that half of all workers
are using three or more devices for work, including tablets and smart phones,
many of which are outside the control of IT. Among the total set of mobile and
PC devices reported by respondents, 60% are used for both work and personal
use, only 14% of devices are used strictly for work, and 26% are used strictly
for personal purposes.

End users want access to that data across mobile devices,
whilst IT departments want to ensure that data access is secure and within IT’s
control. MozyEnterprise offers secure access to data via mobile apps
for iOS and Android devices, whilst IT maintains management control
through administrative console.

The emergence of distributed workforces and mobile device
proliferation have driven enterprise IT departments to seek solutions that
securely protect and provide access to business data within this new framework.
Innumerable financial firms and IT industry analyst reports have pointed to the
accelerated growth in recent years of cloud computing within the enterprise,
including Morgan Stanley in its 2011
paper Cloud Computing Takes Off. It estimates the
percentage of IT departments using the public cloud to rise from 28% in 2011 to
51% by 2014.

"Enterprise organisations
continue to recognise the value of cloud services as they address the
information management needs of a distributed, mobile workforce," said
Brad Nisbet, IDC Storage and Data Management Services. "These organisations are looking for an
efficient approach to protect, organise and share critical business
information. Providers such as Mozy, who are focused on maturing offerings like
MozyEnterprise, are well-positioned to address these capabilities while
allowing the enterprise organisations to maintain high levels of administrative
control."

MozyEnterprise is available through Mozy
Sales directly as well as Mozy resellers, business partners, and through EMC’s Velocity partner program.

With more than 80,000 business customers and more than 90PB of
information stored at its multiple data centres around the globe, Mozy services
customers as General Electric, Louis Vuitton, University of San
Francisco and Starwood Hotels; as well as partners McAfee, Vodafone, Time
Warner, and Comcast.