Mozy, the web backup services company, has teamed up with China’s largest telecommunications and broadband privider, China Telecom, to launch a new service called eYun.

eYun is chinese for eCloud and the product iteslf allows users to backup their data online over the internet.  Based on the Mozy platform which is in use by over 1 million users worldwide it is hoped that the new service will appeal to China Telecoms 214 million fixed line and 47 million broadband  users as well as it’s 35 million mobile users.

Mozy and China Telecom have been running a trial of 15,000 users and now say they are ready for mass release of the online backup service which will go on sale immediately.  Providing secure web backup services to the largest internet market in the world will push the already successful Mozy backup service to the forefront with it’s competitors such as BackBlaze, SugarSync and Carbonite surely keen to make a place for themselves in this emerging market also.

Mozy is a Decho Corporation product.  Decho is an EMC company based in Seattle, USA.  The eYun website is www.51eyun.com

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