Archive for January, 2010

What Does Mozy Have Up Their Sleeve?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010


Yesterday, EMC (Decho’s parent company, whose flagship product is Mozy) announced fourth-quarter sales that were better than expected. But that’s not what interests me…

David Goulden, executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) at EMC said Mozy is now backing up 25 PBs of customer data, and will also expand online backup to a broad set of personal cloud services in 2010. EMC CEO Joe Tucci said they’ll be working on new services, including PC backup as a service, storage as a service, archiving as a service, parts of our content management and security product lines as a service, and desktop as a service – the potential list goes on and on.

In addition, R&D spending is going up 20% to focus on multi-billion dollar opportunities including cloud services.

Also, a job posting was spotted at Decho: Principal Web Developer. The new hire will be responsible for developing a next generation web application leveraging Mozy by Decho’s massively scalable Mozy Information Platform.

Based on these comments, what could Mozy be up to? Right now, you cannot easily share a file with a colleague or family member via Mozy’s web interface. Many other providers are adding web-based file sharing, collaboration and sync to their backup offerings. Mozy has a lot of user data and a top-notch backup solution, but stops there. Users looking for more than just backup are starting to look elsewhere.

What features do you think Mozy will be adding in 2010?

Google Online Backup

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010


We mentioned yesterday that the GDrive has not arrived, and even if it had, online storage is not online backup. However, that got us thinking… could the ability to store any type of file within Google Docs be used as the storage mechanism for an online backup system?

We’ve seen it done before… CloudBerry backs up to Amazon S3, and JungleDisk uses S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files. These applications could easily be altered to write files to Google Docs, using Google’s own List Data API.

Would it make sense to use Google Docs as your online backup solution? Consider backing up 30 GB of files with 3 common systems:

  • Mozy: $5 / month, or $54.45 / year
  • Amazon S3: $30 for CloudBerry Online Backup, followed by $0.15 / GB / month for storing the files, and $0.17 / GB to upload the data = about $90 / year
  • Google: $20 / year

This is assuming only 1 version of a file is kept; as more versions are saved, you’ll need more disk space with Amazon S3 or Google, pushing up the cost.

While we’re one of the first to scream that the recent annoucement by Google is not an online backup solution, it’s something that could be developed with a little manipulation of current systems.

What do you think? Will Google announce an online backup solution in the future? Are you willing to give them more of your information?

Google’s GDrive Has NOT Arrived

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010


TechCrunch has a post, “Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That,” which can’t be any more misleading. And the only reason it’s receiving this attention is because it’s from Google.

In fact, Google Docs product manager Vijay Bangaru states, “This is not Gdrive.” Should Mozy, Backblaze and others worry? Not yet.

First of all, just because there is an online storage solution, it doesn’t mean there’s a new online backup solution! Online backup is not online storage (and online storage isn’t online backup). Backups include scheduled transfers, file version history, and a means to restore data. This new method of storing any* file in Google Docs isn’t any of these requirements!

In addition, services such as Mozy and Backblaze offer unlimited online backup for about $5 / month. Google is charging for this online storage at $0.25 / GB. That’s $125 / year for 500 GB – slightly less than IDrive‘s Family Pack, but still lacking all of the features of a backup solution.

So, Google fanatics, don’t drop your online backup service just yet – the GDrive is still just a myth.

* any file must be 250 MB or smaller.

Decho Claims Mozy.nl

Monday, January 11th, 2010


MozyThis may be boring to some of you, but Mozy was recently awarded Mozy.nl from BackUpsOnline.nl. Currently, the domain is still pointing to BackUpsOnline.nl, but we expect that to change in the next couple of days.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) arbitrated this transfer of ownership after Decho filed a complaint against BackUpsOnline.

BackUpsOnline.nl admitted to using Mozy.nl to generate leads for their own online backup service, which (of course) Mozy didn’t like. Mozy also didn’t like BackUpsOnline.nl’s asking price of $25,000, so Decho looked to WIPO for assistance.

BackUpsOnline.nl also owns Mozy.fr, which they’re sure to also lose to Decho.

Carbonite Secures Additional $20 Million in Funding

Saturday, January 9th, 2010


Carbonite has now raised a total of $67 million in funding with the annoucement of the latest round of $20 million. CEO David Friend states,

We’re focused on delivering the best online backup service in the world. This investment enhances our ability to continue to lead innovation here in the US and to expand our offerings to new foreign markets.

Crosslink Capital of San Francisco led this round of funding, with Gary Hromadko of Crosslink now joining Carbonite’s board of directors.

Online Backup Contest Winners Announced

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010


Winners of our Online Backups contest have been announced! We gave away 5 IDrive Portable USB drives, one each day, to:

  • Ramin Sarrafian
  • “dharam”
  • Michelle Rosborough
  • “thegoldone”
  • Lisa Grassetti

Then, we chose the grand prize winners… those winners are: (more…)

New Year’s Contest

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010


It’s the New Year, and you should be backing up your computer! Make it one of your New Year’s resolutions today – Online Backups Review is making it easier for you to accomplish this goal. You can win prizes from IDrive, SpiderOak, Mozy, Backblaze, and Cloudberry!

We’re giving away over $750 with of prizes in our Online Backups Contest. Entering is easy… follow us on Twitter, become a Fan of ours on Facebook, or try out an online backup provider and give us a review, and you’re entered! Complete contest rules are at http://bit.ly/backup2010.

Make 2010 the year you backup your computer!

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