![]() The MozyHome version seems to be perfectly adequate for the majority of users, as long as they do not require advanced or sophisticated features, and is capable of backing up most types of file. As a cloud service it enables users to back up their data continuously if they require, and offers storage and backup facilities on two levels, for business (MozyPro), and personal (MozyHome) use. Mozy is one of the industry leaders in the field of backup providers, and does seem to be a preferred solution for a large number of users. Remote backup is really the answer, as long as you can find a service you know you can trust. Using a memory stick or an external hard drive can work well, but can be affected by the same possibilities of data loss as might affect your computer. This could be a major disaster like fire, flood or earthquake, or it could be something as simple as spilling coffee on the computer, or just a hard drive crash. There can be very few people who have not lost their data, or personally known somebody who has, because of some unexpected event. Most people nowadays are becoming convinced of the advisability of using an online backup service. It can be helpful to look at a Mozy review to find out the stronger and weaker points of the service. One of the best-known backup providers is Mozy, and you may be wondering how to find out whether it is right for you. Read more about storage in Computerworld's Storage Topic Center.It can be quite difficult to know which online backup service to choose, as usually you will not find out how effective a particular service is until disaster happens. Follow Lucas on Twitter at or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed. Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. "But the philosophy of these companies has always been that power users are balanced out by their average users." ![]() Some, such as Window's, offers 25GB of free storage, but bandwidth is severely limited.Ĭourture admits to being a power use of Carbonite's service, which he said he's sure they're loosing money on him. Many of those companies offer free online storage up to 5GB and then charge a fee for unlimited storage after that. Mozy competes with other storage providers such as Adrive, Flickr, Carbonite, Google Gmail, YouSendIt, Boxnet and SugerSync. "We wanted to make the incremental cost of adding a computer less than it was in the past," Stockdale said. ![]() They can also add 20GB of additional storage capacity for the same monthly price. Mozy's MozyHome service will now charge $5.95 a month for up to 50GB of storage capacity, and $9.99 per month for up to 125GB capacity (and as many as three computers.) Beyond those prices, if a user wants to add another computer to his or her existing storage, it will now cost $2.00 a month. When it comes to taking one minute of video on the latter phones, it consumes 82MB and 170MB, respectively. A photo taken on an iPhone 4 takes up 2.6MB, and one taken on a Droid X phone eats 2.3MB of capacity. ![]() Mozy said the typical size of a photo taken on an iPhone 3G takes up. "There's been a pressure across the industry on consumer plans that offer unlimited capacity." ![]() Now you have people carrying high-quality digital devices and exhibiting a behavior where they reflexively store it," Stockdale said. Then all that stuff got built into your phone. "The analog camcorder became digital, and the digital camcorder became high-definition digital. To give you an idea of how much that is, Mozy currently stores more than 70 petabytes of data for its customers. Power users use as much capacity as the other 90% put together, he said. Power users tend to not only store high-definition video, photos and music, but they also end up converting all their analog data to electronic to store that online as well, said Russ Stockdale, senior vice president of product marketing at Mozy. Today, however, Mozy services more than 1 million users, and while the majority of its customers don't abuse the service, about 10% are considered "power users" who store everything and are eating up enormous amounts of capacity. While the new price and capacity points take affect immediately for new customers, existing customers will have until March 1 before they'll be required to change over to the new plans. Since then, it has charged $4.95 per month for unlimited online backup. Mozy, which is owned by EMC, opened its MozyHome consumer storage service in 2006. ![]()
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