EMC Mozy in the cloud (and a sanguine soliloquy)

It's clear skies at IT Blogwatch in which EMC provides a service solution. Not to mention nonsectarian orthography...

Brian is the brains:

EMC Corp. today is set to unveil a hosted backup and recovery service based on technology gained from its $76 million acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems in September.

The new MozyEnterprise software-as-a-service product is the first offering in EMC's new Fortress line of hosted software. MozyEnterprise will provide subscription-based online backup and recovery services for remote PCs and remote Windows Server environments, EMC said. [read more]

EMC's Chuck says it isn't SaaS :

Let me get something off my chest ... I think the industry term SaaS (either software-as-a-service, or storage-as-a-service) misses the point entirely. Being a marketing guy, names matter to me.

I prefer the term IMSP -- information management service providers -- as a more descriptive name of what we're seeing here. [read more]

Chris thinks it is:

EMC has announced its MozyEnterprise storage-as-a-service offering, which is based on its EMC Fortress delivery platform and provides online backup and data recovery for small and medium business, laptop users, remote and branch offices of enterprises, where it covers desktops and servers.
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An EMC job ad also mentioned Fortress. We may as well envisage a scenario in which all EMC software applications might be delivered over the net as services. Customer's data is stored inside Fortress which is EMC's first step in the emerging cloud computing concept. [read more]

Paul is on the spot:

Wasting no time after its $76 million acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems’ online Mozy backup technology, EMC has unveiled MozyEnterprise. As its name suggests, MozyEnterprise is targeted at large enterprises and will be offered with its EMC Fortress data storage platform.
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To ensure that it succeeds, EMC has signed up key resellers with the clout in enterprise markets such as Verizon Business, eFile Cabinet, FusionStorm, and TelX. [read more]

Joel has some details:

MozyEnterprise includes year-round, 24/7 telephone and e-mail support, "hot" backup capability for Exchange, SQL, and VMWare, and the previously mentioned administration features of EMC Fortress. As with other versions of Mozy, MozyEnterprise users are allowed to specify their own encryption key if desired. [read more]

Wade Roushs in:

For the last few months, EMC (NYSE: EMC), the Hopkinton, MA, storage giant famous for selling big, expensive storage and backup servers to large corporations, has made no bones about its interest in a totally different model of doing business: Software-as-a-Service. Going with "SaaS", as it’s called, is a major switch if you're a hardware company, since it entails hosting your proprietary applications and/or your customers’ data on your own machines, providing access via the broadband Web, and charging for a subscription to the service, rather than for big iron. [read more]

And finally... Abjure the feckless nomenclature ...

Buffer overflow:

• Andy Hunt: MacBook Air and Iterative Development
• Schneier on Security: Hacking Thermostats
• Carleen Hawn: Dell Thinks Small Biz is Big Biz for VoIP
• Layer 8: 4 things you should know about mainframes and SOA
• Ben Worthen: IBM's Salary Cuts
• Greg Shields: FireFox is More Buggy than IE
• Data Center Knowledge: Web Outages and Damage Control 2.0
• Kees Leune: Roles and Responsibilities in Information Security

Other Computerworld bloggers

• Seth Weintraub: Apple has carved out a new product market - the mainstream WiFi mobile platform
• Eric Lai: How will DataPortability.org keep from being hijacked by Microsoft?
• Ryan Faas: MacBook Air's SuperDrive Requires Special USB
• SaaS Revolution: The convergence of MSPs and SaaS providers
• Storage This Week: DAISI: A storage invention that wouldn't work?
• Mark Hall: South America aglow for outsource role
• Shark Tank: Right where it oughtta be
• Douglas Schweitzer: Power hacks
• Mike Elgan: Never check e-mail again?
• Robert L. Mitchell: A creepy case of mistaken identity
• Shark Bait: My Favorite "Grandma"

Computerworld editor Joyce Carpenter compiled IT Blogwatch today. Not to worry, regular Blogwatcher Richi Jennings will return.

Previously in IT Blogwatch

• Apple up, APPL down (and APPL antacid)
• Microsoft cheapens Vista virtualization (and oldish oddities)
• CIA fears hacked power grid (and CSoD)