Mozy Updates Cloud Data Protection Service

Mozy by EMC announced the next generation of its cloud data protection service providing enterprises with endpoint data protection, productivity and administration tools for the public cloud, and enhancing EMC’s portfolio of backup and archive solutions.

The company launches this version of its service in response to two changing dynamics:

• The trend for employees to bring their own devices and applications into the workplace and
• The need for enterprise IT departments to secure data created and accessed on those devices without inhibiting productivity.

The service enables businesses to avoid the ‘accidental architectures’ that can be spawned when employees, departments or branch offices take matters into their own hands and adopt cloud solutions that lack the security, management and interoperability that enterprises demand. With the introduction of new tools, the company bridges the needs of employees and IT departments by offering end users the functionality they want, while empowering the IT team with the controls the business requires.

The features are the latest developments in the product set following its earlier transition into EMC’s backup and recovery portfolio and are built on the technology platform – announced in the summer – which allowed the business to transition from device-centric data protection to people-centric data protection.

They include:

• Cloud Administrative Tools for Enterprise IT: Storage management saves time and money involved in provisioning and managing backup at a device level. Further developments in integration with enterprise software tools allows for faster, more-scalable deployments.

• End User Experience: An integrated Mozy Sync folder keeps files updated and available across computers and mobile devices. It also introduces functionality that ensures faster initial backup times and bandwidth efficiency when backing up large files.

• New Partner Resources: API support allows partners and resellers to integrate with their preferred remote monitoring and management or professional services automation systems.

The service has also been added to the EMC Data Protection Suite, providing an approach to unlocking the value of EMC backup and archive solutions that can evolve to meet customers’ needs. The suite offers an adaptable licensing model that allows customers and partners to mix and match the usage of individual products to fit their requirements, while lowering their TCO and providing investment protection.

MozyEnterprise becomes the public cloud component within the suite, enabling customers and partners to extend their individual protection storage architectures to include cloud data protection and access tools for desktops, laptops, mobile devices and remote offices.

“Enterprises today are increasingly looking to hybrid cloud strategies that leverage both private and public cloud solutions to drive maximum flexibility, cost efficiencies and scale,” said Russ Stockdale, GM, Mozy by EMC. “The next-generation Mozy service, as part of the EMC Data Protection Suite, allows them to do that as part of a comprehensive strategy for data protection from the world’s leading data protection company.“

The need for a backup approach that includes endpoints and remote/branch offices, which can be achieved with Mozy in combination with the other elements of the data protection suite, was highlighted by EMC’s IT trust curve research. Just 44% of companies that had not adopted technologies, and fell in the lowest maturity group, stated that they could recover all of their information should they experience data loss.

“It’s been a big year for Mozy – continuing to broaden from consumer to enterprise offerings, and completing its transition into EMC’s backup division,” said Jason Buffington, senior data protection analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “The addition of MozyEnterprise into the EMC Data Protection Suite adds an additional dimension to the EMC solution lineup and a broader range of choices for EMC customers. IT organizations are getting wiser about choosing their data protection tools; and the trend from device-centric to people-centric protection is allowing the IT department to finally be part of the solution (instead of perpetuating the problem) by enabling them to manage all of the organizations’ backups – regardless of platform, method or final repository. With these trends in full swing, offerings such as MozyEnterprise and the wider EMC Data Protection Suite are looking more and more attractive.“

“Month after month, Mozy saves one of our customers from a data disaster of one type or another,” said Dave Chase, COO, CAP5 Technology Solutions, a reseller partner in the Mozy channel program. “Mozy continues to innovate and add the features that we need to support our Managed IT Services offering as it evolves with new cloud-based services. Today, Mozy is a significant revenue center in our business as more and more of our end-user customers realize the benefits of the cloud. Now, with the new features in its next-generation data protection service, we’re more glad than ever that we found Mozy for our customers!“

The service will be available for all Mozy-branded products in all regions in Q4. Services ‘powered by Mozy’ are subject to schedules to be agreed with the service providers.