#1621: Apple Q3 2022 financials, Slack's new free plan restrictions, which OS features do you use?.#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile () of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff-the only time he has entered the competition. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world () by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK.
For pricing information, go here for MozyPro and here for MozyHome.Ĭhris J. For more information on Stash and about joining the beta test group, go here. It offers a free starter service with 5GB of capacity.ĮWEEK will continue to keep a close eye on developments at Mozy. Mozy’s cloud service with Stash is aimed primarily at small to medium-size businesses (about 70,000 use MozyPro for server and/or desktop/laptop backup) and consumers (MozyHome), although it has some large enterprises (such as GE, with some 300,000 corporate users) as customers.
“Stash uses a simple single-folder model which complements your online backup so that all your data is available where and when you need it, even if you choose not to synchronize it,” said Mozy General Manager Russ Stockdale. Beta users are now trying it out and reporting back their experiences. But if Stash and the Pi software work the way Mozy believes it will, this is a feature that will set the company apart from competing services, at least at this point. The entire automated solution described here isn’t quite ready for prime time. And now Paul will be talking about how this fits into the virtualization space,” Haeger said. “Mozy had all the data storage, and Pi had the data movement and availability piece. Search becomes a background partner as needed, saving the user time. The idea is that when someone is working on a project, all the pertinent files that person needs become immediately available-into a specific file folder on the desktop-through Pi’s intelligent desktop search and Mozy’s cloud storage. “The vision for this was that all of a person’s data-whether it be email, files, instant messaging, everything-become part of an ‘information space’ that services you automatically,” Mozy Product Manager Ted Haeger told eWEEK. In fact, Box, probably the hottest of the new-gen cloud storage services, includes collaboration tools and a partnership with Google for some of its apps, including Google Docs. Box, Dropbox and SugarSync have provided this across-all-worlds access for the last couple of years, and they are building successful cloud services businesses on it. If that part doesn’t seem like a totally new wrinkle, well, it isn’t. There is no need to wait for a backup or hit an upload button. As soon as a file is placed in a local Stash folder-say, on a laptop-it quickly becomes available online for all devices a person uses (tablets, notebooks, smartphones, desktops). Stash’s file synchronization feature gives users a simple way to keep their data up to date across each of the computers they use.
Operating systems and device brands are irrelevant. In other words, anything that uses a browser can see the files-at the same time, if need be. Like standard Mozy, Stash folders provide users with cloud-based access to their backed-up files, but they also enable availability to them at all times and across multiple devices-including all computers, smartphones and tablets. 24 said that it has moved beyond backup and has opened the public beta availability of a new feature called Mozy Stash. With that as a backstory, Seattle-based Mozy on Jan.
West Coast-based Mozy and VMware are still owned by EMC but work together on a daily basis on their own agendas they deal with the East Coast mothership as needed, but also they have a lot of autonomy. in 2008 to become an entity called Decho (which was not clearly understood by the market) and subsequent rescue by VMware in 2011, the continually evolving storage service seems to have settled down. It was one of the first such services on the map when tiny Berkeley Data Systems launched it in American Fork, Utah, back in 2005.Īfter its sale to EMC in 2007, a merger with EMC’s Pi Corp. Mozy, VMware’s cloud storage provider, has had a few iterations.