Mozy has confirmed that it has been testing it's web backup software with Microsoft Windows 7 and is now able to confirm that the products are compatibile.

The news comes very shortly after the launch of the new Windows 7 operating system and repeats Mozy's speed in confirming it's support for the new Apple OS X Snow Leopard system that was released in September.  Snow Leopard take up was faster and more widespread than many expected and Mozy's quick repsonse will please it's users.

Mozy is keen to recommend that users of new hardware and software get off to a good start by installing their online backup software system.

Yesterday,  the software developer also released a new version of it's web backup product for both Windows and Mac OS X giving improved backup of external hard-drives for Mac users and minor reliability improvements for both PC and Mac systems.

Mozy offer a free 15 day trial to new users who want to try out their product.

The online backup market is dominated by a selection of web backup software providers including Carbonite, Mozy, Backblaze and SugarSync amongst others.

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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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Improved memory usage, simpler options and performance improvements are just some of the changes that have been made by the Web Backup software provider, Mozy, in it’s latest release of the company’s online backup offering.

The new version, Mozy 1.5, for Mac OS X is part of ongoing improvements to this popular web backup solution and comes during a time of great expansion for EMC Company as it announces a raft of partnerships with organizations ranging from Chinese internet service providers to mobile phone giants.

Mozy 1.5 for Mac has better memory usage which reduces the resources it requires allowing both the software and your Apple Mac to run that little bit faster (not that many of us complain about the speed of our awesome Macs!).  The menu options bar has been simplified and the overall stability and performance of the software has been improved.

Users can choose to download the update immediately or just allow their existing Mozy software to update itself which usually happens within a few days.

Competitors such as Carbonite, Backblaze and SugarSync are also improving their online backup offerings but the pace or Mozy’s expansion keeps them up there as a big contender in this evolving market.

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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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Mozy, the web backup service provide for home and business, yesterday announced that it was upgrading the status of Apple’s new Snow Leopard OS X operating system to the ‘preferred’ OS for its online backup application.

A representative of the company confirmed on their website that the new operating system provided extra stability and speed for their application and they were also keen to encourage users to switch to Snow Leopard as soon as possible with the comment that “The sooner we get the majority of our Mac users on Snow Leopard,
the sooner our engineers can take advantage of Snow Leopard’s 64-bit
architecture”.

Their confidence in the new operating system will come as welcome news to users of the Mozy backup software who may have been waiting to upgrade but keen to ensure that their data would be safe.

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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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