“We run a large number of Macs, and needed a business-caliber solution that was easy to deploy and cost-effective,” said Jeffrey Bonacci, senior creative systems engineer at Ogilvy and Mather, in the press release. “Now, more than ever, we need to know that our intellectual assets are not vulnerable to theft, failure or disaster. We cannot afford to lose information on any one of our employees’ Macs. MozyPro gives us peace of mind, knowing that the information crucial to our business is protected.”
MozyPro for Mac builds on the highly successful MozyHome for Mac service released earlier this year and underscores the company’s strong commitment to the fast-growing Mac market. The number of customers using Mozy on a Mac has grown by 65% in the last six months and the company is optimistic about seeing similar success among Mac-powered businesses. In fact, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Co. has noted that Apple tripled its share of the small business market earlier this year between the second and third quarters.
MozyPro for Mac helps Mac-powered businesses protect their critical information assets. According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93 percent of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. Of those companies, 50 percent filed for bankruptcy immediately.
Hundreds of businesses have already adopted MozyPro for Mac since the service entered public beta in September of this year. MozyPro allows businesses to manage backup and restore processes for all their Mac computers (as well as any Windows-based PCs) from a single, Web-based administration console. The general availability release boosts upload speeds, adds support for mounted network drives and simplifies administration.
“Our business customers value MozyPro for Mac because it was built by Mac engineers for Mac end-users and includes the features business customers require,” said Vance Checketts, chief operating officer at Decho Corp. in the press release. “One key differentiator from MozyHome is that MozyPro for Mac provides a single administrative web-based dashboard to manage backup and restores across multiple operating systems.”
Mozy manages more than 10 petabytes (10 million gigabytes) of information across multiple data centers. MozyPro now supports Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X Server 10.4 and 10.5, along with Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008.
MozyPro for desktops and notebooks costs US$3.95 per license plus 50 cents per GB per month. MozyPro for servers costs $6.95 per license plus 50 cents GB per month.
Source: Decho Corp.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chuckles the Microsoft CEO” for the heads up.]
Great product, easy to rollout and easy to administer with excellent options for controlling end-user backups (including file type restrictions and forced backups), even on hundreds of machines. They also offer optical restore media service for large recoveries. Highly recommend it.
It’s good for home users, too, actually.
Seems awefully expensive.
I’ve been using the free 2GB home version for a couple of years now and it works very well.
I don’t really know how their pro pricing compares to other internet based products but it does seem a bit high – Right up until I lose something critical or the building burns down and my critical/expensive data is there waiting for me when I’m ready to start recovering.