On top of that, Gutmann said, the additional features EMC is promoting to justify the price hike “have been offered by competitors already, including desktop and Microsoft Windows server OS support, network share support, and VSS writer backup and restore to Exchange, SYSVOL and Active Directory. “Yet it’s clear EMC is not positioned to service this market-illustrated by price increases that SMBs just can’t afford.” “When EMC bought Mozy, it was under the guise of building its new software-as-a service division to target ‘small office/home office’ customers,” Sam Gutmann, CEO of Intronis, an online backup competitor to EMC Mozy, told eWEEK. Some other industry observers also were critical of the changes.
“Guess I’ll be making some calls to Mozy this week and see what makes the most sense for GCC.” Thank goodness for the grandfather clause,” Powell wrote. quadrupling in price seems ridiculous to me, but what do I know. “Guess a good thing can only last so long. Jason Powell, a MozyPro user who works as IT director at Granger Community Church, a nonprofit, wrote in his blog about being taken aback by the price changes. The pricing difference between MozyEnterprise and MozyPro is a reflection of EMC and Mozy “fine-tuning our offerings to best fit our customer requirements,” Kempskie said. The overwhelming response from our resellers was that this is something they can work with,” Kempskie said. “Mozy proactively gave our resellers a heads-up about the price change more than a week ago and solicited their opinions on what was most fair and reasonable.
MOZYPRO HOME LICENSE
For five server licenses and 20GB, the price goes from $29.75 to $69.75 per month.įor 10 licenses and 100GB, the pricing jumps from $89.50 to $244.50 per month, and for 20 servers and 500GB, the cost rockets from $329.00 to $1,014 per month.ĮMC spokesperson Kevin Kempskie told eWEEK that the price changes for MozyPro server put the license model more in line with pricing for the MozyEnterprise server.
MOZYPRO HOME PLUS
However, beginning on March 1, customers face the following prices: For a single server license plus 10GB of capacity, the cost jumps from $8.95 per month to $24.45 per month. Grandfathered licenses will retain existing features, functionality and support, EMC said.Ĭlick here to read more about EMC’s purchase of online backup provider MozyPro. Any additional storage purchased and assigned to a grandfathered license also will retain MozyPro’s existing pricing plan. The e-mail from EMC’s sales department said, “The MozyPro desktop offering will maintain the same low monthly price of $3.95 per license and 50 cents per GB … The new MozyPro server offering will be available at a monthly price of $6.95 per license and $1.75 cents per GB.”Įxisting MozyPro licenses and storage on individual accounts purchased before March 1, 2008, will be “grandfathered” and pricing will remain the same, the e-mail said. 25 saying prices for its popular SMB server backup service would be going up substantially on March 1. EMC, owner of the MozyPro online backup service since fall of 2007, sent e-mail notices to its customers on Feb.
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