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MozyHome Opens the Door for Online Mac Backups
According to Tech News World, it looks like someone has beaten Apple to the punch in developing an internet based system backup. While Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Time Machine and Time Capsule present a made-for-Mac backup solution designed and built by the company itself, it lacks one critical feature -- offsite backups. If a home is robbed, flooded or, worse yet, burned, some of a computer's most precious data can be lost with it. While the family budget is important enough, the real gold is family photos and movies that can never be recreated. EMC's (NYSE: EMC) Mozy, however, has launched a new online backup solution, MozyHome for Mac, that can protect a customer's most valuable data. The company's Mac version has been available as a beta for nine months, where it's attracted 43,000 beta users. The official release now joins versions for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. However, Mozy's implementation of MozyHome for Mac isn't just a retrofitted Windows application.Built for Macs"We've all wanted to prove to the market that EMC is committed to the consumer space and to the Mac," Vance Checketts, chief operating officer for Mozy, told MacNewsWorld. Mozy, he noted, has an engineering team dedicated to the Mac. "It's not that we took an on-premise software solution and Internet-enabled it," he said. "We built this from the ground up to be optimized for online backups and optimized for the Mac." Designed as a consumer service, MozyHome for Mac offers 2 gigabytes of online backup free with no expiration date or unlimited online backup capacity for US$4.95 a month. "It's really pretty easy -- you can go in and say, 'I want all my iPhoto stuff' or you can pick subsets of photos," Checketts explained, noting that users can easily control which files are backed up, even choosing to back up any file with a particular extension, regardless of where it is stored on a user's hard drive. For the full story, click here! Posted at 05:34AM May 02, 2008 by Kevin P McAuliffe in Enhance | Comments[1] 
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Online backup is becoming common these days. It is estimated that 70-75% of all PC's will be connected to online backup services with in the next decade.
Thousands of online backup companies exist, from one guy operating in his apartment to fortune 500 companies.
Choosing the best online backup company will be very confusing and difficult. One website I find very helpful in making a decision to pick an online backup company is:
http://www.BackupReview.info
This site lists more than 400 online backup companies in its directory and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.
Posted by Jenny on May 03, 2008 at 06:50 PM MDT #