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VMware adds Mozy to its cloud and virtualization empire
VMware's official blog post makes it clear that the company wasn't so much interested in Mozy as a consumer offering. Rather, it's the inner workings of Mozy which piqued VMware's curiosity. CTO Steve Herrod says, "Over the past 5 years, Mozy has built one of the best examples of a globally distributed, large-scale cloud offering." He adds that the move will allow VMware to "further ramp our own cloud-related learning and accelerate new IP, scale, and capabilities" of its existing offerings.
Existing Mozy customers don't need to worry, of course. VMware has pledged to continue running Mozy's service without interruption.
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Subscribe to commentsDrew GreenApr 5th 2011 12:09PM
F'ing great. I love VMware, but this is not going to be a good thing for customers. Mozy already announced they were raising their pricing (enough so for me to decide to switch to a competitor when my sub expires). VMware is very expensive, so this means probable price increases even more so than already announced.
And also, is anyone super sick of cloud computing? VMware markets a "private enterprise cloud" aka corporate datacenter (which is NOT new). Mozy is not "cloud". It's offsite backup. I'm so disgusted of all this stupid marketing hype trying to appeal to those ignorant CEO's with buzz words.
PrestonApr 5th 2011 12:56PM
I dropped Mozy a couple months ago when they changed their pricing structure.
Al FinchApr 5th 2011 5:55PM
Excuse my ignorance but why does no one talk about LiveDrive?
Unlimited Comuters - Unlimited Storage - MAC support and just $59.88 per Year.
Seems like everything else is a rip off.
Lee MathewsApr 5th 2011 6:40PM
@Al Finch We appreciate your comments, but don't post affiliate links or we'll ban you.
hansApr 6th 2011 9:16AM
Umm.... isn't VMWare an EMC owned company too? Sounds like they just moved assets from one side of the corporate family to the other. I know they leave VMWare pretty much alone to do their thing, like they do with their other big property, RSA, but still, this isn't so much an acquisition as it seems to be more EMC proper saying "We don't want to run end user services, VMWare, you take this business and run it."
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