Mozy makes a 'Virtual Move', joins VMware

BANGALORE, INDIA: Steve Herrod, chief technology officer, VMware, in his blog, 'The Console; VMware's Executive Blog', announced that VMware has acquired the assets of EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. He also adds that VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption. 

"Over the past 5 years, Mozy has built one of the best examples of a globally distributed, large-scale cloud offering. We believe that, by being directly engaged with the delivery of such a service, VMware will further ramp our own cloud-related learning and accelerate new IP, scale, and capabilities into the products that we provide to our customers and public cloud partners," he notes.

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Terming it as 'virtual move, Charlotte Yarkoni, COO, Mozy , in her blog, 'MozyBlog', writes, "Mozy employees are transferring as an intact team to VMware from our mutual parent company, EMC. VMware and Mozy share a vision for how cloud computing will transform IT and help businesses achieve greater agility."

VMware CTO believes that Mozy will help VMware to serve SMB community with its cloud offerings.

"The scale of the Mozy service is impressive. Let’s talk some numbers… today they have more than 1 million users, 70,000 business customers, and a worldwide network of datacenters storing more than 70 petabytes of data. 70 petabytes! That’s enough to store the entire written works of mankind from the beginning of recorded history… in all languages... with 20 petabytes to spare," he adds.

Charlotte notes that EMC will retain the Mozy business as it has been delivering it for over four years now.

"An operational support agreement between EMC and VMware is in place to make this possible and ensure no impact to Mozy customers. In the future they can also expect greater interoperability between Mozy and VMware environments, and complementary end user and server-related services."cloud services, Storage