![]() The price of hard drives is so low and back-up is so easy that every home user should have some sort of personal storage solution. Heaven forfend that a company retracts its largesse because, as as Howard Marks eloquently puts it, the folks with only a little data are essentially propping up the jerks slapping 600GB into the cloud every night.īut I have come to bury Mozy, not to praise it. It’ll be announced anyway in a couple of weeks, but it would be fun if you were to scoop it.Īnd then we got ten more when the actual change happened from people expressing outrage and disgust at the untoward jacking of prices on Mozy’s part from $5/Unlimited to $6/50GB. ![]() Two of the general managers that are running Mozy: Charlotte Yarkoni, Vance Checketts. I suggest you call Mozy headquarters in Seattle, or American Fork, Utah and ask to speak with someone about this. Since the EMC acquisition, they have had a difficult time controlling expenses and managing morale and they have lost control of their economic model.Īny Mozy employee can verify this. In the next few weeks, Mozy will be discontinuing their unlimited service offering. We got our first note on January 16 from a Mozy employee: We had a bit of an inkling that this would happen but no one wrote about it here because this isn’t ITCrunch and Mozy was apparently as sexy as granny panties to the regular TC crew. it cost to much to transfer and store terabytes of essentially useless information. The company, which long offered unlimited back-up of files for a paltry $5 a month, increased their prices and cut the unlimited plan, citing financial problems with the model i.e. You run their software and they spirit your precious files away to the cloud, on their own (presumably EMC-based) servers. Mozy, owned by EMC, is a back-up provider. ![]()
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