McAffe is best know for it’s anti-virus product which also includes other online security threat protection such as identity theft, spyware and phishing scams.  So far, the company has concentrated on stopping user data loss via malicious means but the new tie-up with Mozy sees them entering a new market.

Mozy’s leading online backup software product looks at protecting data from other threats – namely, theft, accidental damage and hardware failure.  The Mozy system works silently in the background and uploads user data securely to a remote online server.  This keeps the backup away from the original and allows users to ‘fire-and-forget’ when setting up their backup solution.

No hardware is required and the software can be downloaded for free from the internet.  Mozy already offers this service to over a million users for a low monthly or annual fee and a free trial is available.

At present the service from McAfee is only available to US customers but the company promises that other countries will get the web backup offering over the next year.

Mozy claims to be the worlds most trusted online backup service and competes with Carbonite, Backblaze, SugarSync, iDrive and SpiderOak amongs others in the fast growing market.

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EMC is using it’s Information Honors program to reward students from the more than 300 colleges and universities within the EMC Academic Alliance. Selected students who achieve the highest grade point averages in information storage and management for the 2009/2010 academic year will be rewarded with an Iomega Network Storgage device and a 2 year subscription to Mozy, the company’s web backup product.  Read the full store here.

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Mozy, the online web backup company, has released version 1.4.3 of it’s
software in a hurried attempt to fix a bug that prevented Apple Time
Machine users from backing up to their Time Capsules.

Following an earlier release of a Mozy update some users of the Apple
Time Machine / Time Capsule combo started to experience problems.  On
the 13th August a statement on the Mozy website brought the fix that
users we waiting for.

Devin Knighton, representing the company, said:  “Earlier this week a bug was discovered in our 1.4.1 Mac release that
affected our customers who were using Time Machine with Time Capsule or
Time Machine with a network share of another Mac.”

It is though that the bug affected the ability of Time Machine to mount
the Time Capsule drive and was caused by a backup process running in
the Mozy software.  Frustrated users posted on the company’s blog with
accusations that the company was slow to notify it’s users of the
problem with it’s online backup application.

Berkeley Data Systems, providers of Mozy online backup was acquired by
EMC Corporation in October 2007.  Their web backup products are
available for home and business use and compete against similar
services from Carbonite and BackBlaze.

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