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EMC’S Mozy Online Backup Service Doubles Its Business Customer Base

2008-07-24 08:00:00

EMC’S Mozy Online Backup Service Doubles Its Business Customer Base

 100% Growth In Six Months, Driven By Rapid Adoption Across the Spectrum of

                                 Customers



    SALT LAKE CITY, July 24 /EMWNews/ -- Mozy, Inc., an EMC Company

(NYSE: EMC) and the leader in online backup for businesses and consumers,

today announced that it has doubled the size of its enterprise and small to

medium-size business customer base during the first half of 2008. Mozy has

more than 750,000 users and 20,000 business customers backing up 7.6

billion files to its 10-petabyte storage system. In addition, Mozy has

announced that Thrive Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Staples, has signed a

contract with Mozy to provide online backup to its customers. This service

will also be offered to Staples' customers as Staples Network Services by

Thrive.



    "Thrive Networks is very excited about our relationship with EMC, the

world leader in information infrastructure." said Jim Lippie, president of

Thrive. "We have been in search of a scalable, high quality and dynamic

online back-up solution for our clients at a compelling price point and we

finally found it with Mozy's service."



    Organizations using the Mozy(TM) service range from Fortune 500

companies to small businesses in every industry, including General

Electric, Vanderbilt University, The University of Pittsburgh and thousands

of other small and medium sized businesses. Mozy also has a growing network

of 2,500 resellers and partners, including Acxiom and AmeriVault. EMC has

even integrated Mozy with Iomega(R) products to further extend the Mozy

backup capabilities.



    "As online backup becomes a priority for businesses of all sizes, our

business offerings are now enjoying growth comparable to our market-leading

MozyHome(R) consumer service," said Vance Checketts, chief operating

officer for Mozy, Inc. "Customer growth in a number of market segments is

up nearly 200 percent. This kind of growth affords us the ability to scale

our operations to support future business and consumer customers who choose

us for simple, automatic, and secure online backup."



    Mozy automatically protects your digital information, including photos,

music, spreadsheets and financial documents, from data loss in the event of

hard drive crash, accidental deletion, natural disaster or theft. All files

are encrypted first on the user's machine and then securely transferred to

Mozy's remote data centers via the same encryption methods used for online

banking. Mozy offers three services to meet the needs of consumers, small

businesses, and enterprises:



    -- MozyHome -- the first unlimited online backup service for Windows

and Mac consumers



    -- MozyPro(R) -- the online backup service for small and medium-sized

businesses with a private encryption key option, 24x7 phone support and an

intuitive Web-based administrative console for centralized management



    -- MozyEnterprise(TM) -- the online backup service for larger

organizations seeking assisted activation, robust deployment options and

higher prioritization of support requests



    About Mozy



    Mozy is the leader in online data backup for consumers and businesses.

With more than 750,000 users and 20,000 business customers, Mozy offers a

simple, automatic and secure service for backing up data over the Internet.

Mozy was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2007 and operates as part of the

EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. Information can be found at

http://www.mozy.com.



    About EMC



    EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and

provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable

organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create

value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services

can be found at http://www.EMC.com.



    EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. MozyHome and MozyPro

are registered trademarks, and Mozy and MozyEnterprise are trademarks of

Mozy, Inc. Iomega is a registered trademark of Iomega Corporation. All

other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.



    This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the

Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those

projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk

factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general

economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information

technology spending; (iii) our ability to protect our proprietary

technology; (iv) risks associated with managing the growth of our business,

including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the

challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving

anticipated synergies; (v) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results

and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vi) competitive

factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product

introductions; (vii) the relative and varying rates of product price and

component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services

revenues; (viii) component and product quality and availability; (ix) the

transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new

product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (x)

insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) war or acts of terrorism;

(xii) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xiii)

fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xiv) other one- time events and

other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's

filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any

obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of

this release.





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