New EMC Strategy for Online Storage and Backup
EMC has launched a new strategy and a product for businesses looking to make use of online storage and backup.
Announced late last week, MozyEnterprise is the first offering to come out of the EMC Fortress strategy. The product will provide subscription-based online backup and recovery services for remote PCs and remote Windows Server environments, according to EMC.
“We’ve introduced EMC Fortress (as) a secure, multitenant, scalable SaaS delivery platform, providing customers with centralized billing, management and metering,” said Tom Heiser, general manager of EMC’s new software-as-a-service (SaaS) business unit.
The pricing shows that, with this service, EMC is making MozyEnterprise affordable even for small and midsize businesses, although the company is pitching it at the enterprise. MozyEnterprise for PC and laptop devices is priced at $5.25 a month, plus 70 cents a month per gigabyte stored, and the server module is priced at $9.25, plus $2.35 per gigabyte stored.
In September, EMC bought on-demand backup specialist Berkeley Data Systems, developers of the Mozy hosted storage/backup service, for $76 million and with it gained a path into the SaaS business.
