![]() ![]() What you have now is a version for the home, the SMB and the enterprise. As a result, its product line has been expanded with the release of Mozy Enterprise. Now that the company has access to the vast resource network of EMC, far more is expected. Prior to becoming part of EMC, Mozy was content to acquire a big account or so each year. “But it’s interesting to note that GE made Mozy the standard for backing up laptops and desktops.” “Mozy has a customers ranging from General Electric to the home office, but the fastest growing segment is SMB,” said Vance Checketts, chief operating officer of Mozy. This emphasis has the folks at Mozy more than happy with the EMC stewardship. At the vanguard of this downwards thrust is Mozy, which represents EMC’s first foray into the SaaS world. What he means is that EMC will provide the central repositories for vast stores of data, and everything else all the way down to the consumer and small business. “The individual consumer is generating 85 percent of all information and that information has to live centrally,” said Tucci. He sees the companies Lifeline, Iomega and Mozy product lines as being key to that strategy. ![]() ![]() of Hopkinton, MA, seems to be setting great store in its Mozy acquisition as an integral part of its strategic thrust into the consumer marketplace.ĮMC CEO Joe Tucci admits to SMB and consumer ambitions. Networker now also incorporates the virtual machine backup features of Avamar.ĮMC’s cloud backupproduct Mozy has added Microsoft Active Directory integration that includes automatic discovery of user account profiles and self-service operations.EMC Corp. To backup EMC Isilon scale-out NAS, remote offices, desktop or laptops, however, customers still need Avamar RAIN architecture storage hardware.įurther key Avamar upgrades include: newly-created virtual machines inheriting existing backup policies VM Instant Access, which allows users to boot a virtual machine from Data Domain NAS backup via the NDMP protocol, and the ability for administrators to manage Avamar from vSphere.ĮMC NetWorker 8.1 has added snapshot management that includes auto-discovery of snapshots, wizard-based configuration and intelligent assignment of snapshots to storage media.ĮMC has also added the ability for NetWorker to use DD Boost – software that deduplicates data at source prior to Data Domain ingest – over Fibre Channel for a claimed 30% backup speed increase and 2.5% increase in restore time. ![]() This is in addition to VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle, SAP, IBM DB2 and Sybase, which were given Data Domain integration in Avamar previously. The Avamar product has undergone a full upgrade to version 7 and now supports backup to Data Domain of NAS/NDMP workloads. That makes it most suited to use in datacentres, where bandwidth to the disk target is not an issue.ĮMC has also added Data Domain backup integration with SAP’s HANA Studio and Oracle Exadata. The key upgrades over the products they replace (the DD640, DD670, DD860 and DD890) are a CPU upgrade to Intel Sandy Bridge for a claimed 4x faster processing/throughput and higher capacity drives of 3TB in place of 2TB for a 10x capacity boost over the previous products.ĭata Domain is EMC’s hardware data deduplication backup hardware family, acquired in 2009, which serves as a backup target at which data volume is reduced inline as it is ingested. The new Data Domain boxes – launched at an event in New York this week – are the DD2500, DD4200, DD4500 and DD7200, all of which fit into the midrange between the entry level DD160 and high end DD9200. EMC has announced upgrades to its hardware, software and cloud backup products, including four new Data Domain data deduplication backup target devices a full number upgrade to the Avamar backup app a point upgrade to the NetWorker backup app, and Microsoft Active Directory integration for its Mozy cloud backup service. ![]()
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