Mozy on over and get yourself some peace of mind
June 11, 2010 10:00 am
One of the most frequent IT issue I hear of is a about disaster recovery. It’s usually in the form of a story of how they or someone they know had an incident and lost all their data; everything. Either for personal or small business, the stories are always heart breaking and very likely you or someone you know has a story of their own.
Whenever talking on this subject to clients or a group, I like to use this visualization technique. Imagine walking up to your office tomorrow morning and seeing a flooded out building, smoldering ashes or broken windows and a ransacked office: What data could you not live without? I ask them to write it down (better for me than the Insurance company) and to get a plan in place to protect it.
Fire, flood and theft are leading causes of permanent data loss. Following those are physical failure and human error; remember all those laptop left in a taxi stories? As a reseller for Hard Drive Disaster recovery services from Drive Savers, the best in the business in our opinion, even their economy plans carry a hefty price tag. What is the value of your data?
The worst part of nearly all these stories is that the solutions to protect from all this loss only costs a fractions of pennies to what the loss value is, even if you can put a price on it. However, cost usually is not the limiting factor in setting these systems up. Most users, even home users, value their data a lot more than the ~$30 price range for most of these systems. Usually we’ve found in these cases the complexity of these solutions being the most daunting factor. Inhibiting people not to set these up, or worse, setting them up wrong.
Mozy, one of our preferred solutions for backup just announced Mozy for Windows 2.0, a HUGE release that addresses improves so many stress points for users:
- Mozy 2xProtect™ – This new feature allows you to back up to an external drive in addition to our online data centers at no additional cost.
- Faster backups – Mozy 2.0 prepares your files up to 75% faster, transfers them up to 25% faster, and uses less of your computer’s resources than ever before.
- New, easy-to-use interface – Mozy 2.0 allows you to temporarily stop a backup in progress via a new “pause” button. You can also instantly see how many files have backed up and how many are left to back up, so you can verify that files have been protected.
Faster and easier; the way upgrades should be. I was also told that Mac users will have to wait till later this year but it is coming down the pipe.
Check MozyPro out for yourself, and for the rest of June you can enter promo code JUNE for a 10% discount.
