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?
UK-based Vodafone has teamed up with Decho (the creators of Mozy) to offer PC backup for their customer’s desktops, notebooks and netbooks. Though known as being a mobile internet service, Vodafone’s PC Backup will not support mobile devices at this time. The backup of smart phones has been a topic of interest lately, with 
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