Hello Decho

I think this is a fantastic idea, and not just because I’m an EMC employee. My home office is full of papers that I’d love to organize. Some are too old to be relevant anymore but I don’t have the time to sift them out, shred them and dispose of them. Some are filed in the wrong place and some of them are cluttering up my desk as I write. Give me a way to organize this in digital format, make financial institutions offer my statements in a digitally signed format that I can archive and then sign me up! I’m already a Mozy user, and thank God I took advantage of it, because my desktop at home died about three months ago, and I can’t get my hard drive to work in any other machines. Yes, I tried the USB wrapper. Anyway, as an employee and an MBA student I also think Professor Christensen would love this idea because it attacks conventional storage from the bottom up. I may just start buying up EMC stock again, or Decho stock if possible.

Two more things…I didn’t have to mention that I’m an EMC employee, and public relations is not in my job description; I’m an engineer.
Also, I like the name, but I would have written it as “d’Echo”. A little more stylish I think.

@John Pelletier: Frenchy names were stylish in another century. Decho is good, but people will misspell it as “Deco”, “Decko” “Deko”, or similarly.

Once again, EMC made a big step forward into the future. Congratulations from Switzerland.

These a rule-changing moves. While online storage has been around in the form of XDrive and clones, with the packaging and the solid commitment of EMC behind it - this is an idea that has “arrived”.

Given the market scenario, however, it is important to see how deeply it penetrates the market as not just a web enabled flash drive, but as a dependable and indispensable “goto” place for information lifecycle management - that has been EMC’s credo for some time now.

Penetration in emerging markets apart from US/Europe is key to keeping the brand and offering relevant. Think about how people and companies from India and China would want to use this service and come up with a good answer to “Why should I spend on it?“

I do not wish to sound alarmist, but unless some QoS parameters are included in teh sales pitch, there is isn’t enough juice in the concept to sustain revenues. Storage - several can provide, QoS in data storage - now tell me about that.

Charanjeev, I’m not sure what you mean by QoS in this case, but I think the competitive advantage here will be in the implementation of the overall solution. XDrive, Mozy, Amazon’s S3 all offer storage, but no one’s doing management of information for us, the end users. Give me an easy way to organize, manage, secure and safely archive all the stuff that I have to keep track of at home and I’ll pay for it. Let’s hope that’s what Pi is about.

I see great potential; good luck!

Guys, your mail server is bouncing back emails to ! Can you sort this please I need to make a support request.

I hope that this works out, both for Decho and its customers (individual consumers and businesses). I just tried for the first time installing Carbonite that did not work out well (another forum for that story!). I quickly then signed up for Mozy 2GB free account, downloaded, installed, configured and did my first online backup of just limited data as a test. I am impressed and pleased so far and feel quite comfortable due to the visibility of the backup process. It lets you choose the type of encryption, shows you it is encrypting and then shows you the backup speed/progress with history when done. I am sure I will come up with some questions and feature requests as I keep using it but can’t think of anything right now.

Cheers!

Who is on the management team?

I think it’s time you guys make some posts on this blog.

EMC has announced Decho as its cloud computing division. Any plans of providing hosted database servers (oracle, SQL Server, Exchange,..) and also hosted desktops (XP, Vista, Linux, ...)? This coupled with allowing consumers and small businesses to install and run their own applications will be the true open cloud ‘computing’. I hope EMC doesn’t just stop at cloud ‘storage’ with limited computing.

It’d be great to see EMC monetize on the investments made in this space beyond Mozy.  The name EMC would add credibility to an enterprise solution with SugarSync or DropBox functionality.  When it comes to storage systems EMC moves fast bringing product, software, and solutions to market.  I would’ve expected the same or faster speed to market in this space.  Is there a development effort for a solution in the EMR (HL7, etc) space?  This will be a huge opportunity in the near future.

This is a “Techtonic Shift” according to Daniel Lyons’ outstanding article in Newsweek where I first learned of Mozy, PI, EMC and Decho. 

According to Mr. Lyons PI is led by Paul Maritz who was Bill Gates right hand man at Microsoft.  Mr. Maritz is a modern day genius in every sense of the word.

EMC’s CFO David Goulden said in Newsweek, “Decho is a company you can trust with your personal information, the way you trust a bank with your money.“

I respectfully disagree with some of the folks who commented earlier about the name.  I believe that people will be able to soon spell Decho better than Cat!

Mozy’s chief operating officer, Vance Checketts says that they’ve, “kept growing even in the past few months as everyone else is struggling.“  GE is on board as one its execs used Mozy at home leading to thousands of GE’s employees using it too.

I say hats off to the visionaries behind

As far as the name goes, i have a domain name i’d love for someone to use for services like cloud computing and future internet innovations: interusenet

As a longtime Retrospect user, mainly on Mac servers (but a few PC servers, too), I’m so far impressed by Mozy. Set up a client on it two weeks ago, running Mozy Pro beta on a Mac OS X 10.5.5. server. No problems so far, and fairly easy to administer. Please keep the Mac support coming… I’m sure I’ll be considering it in the future for more clients.

@ John Pelletier

There are several firms providing front end management tools for Amazon S3 (admittedly with varying degrees of professionalism and success).  If you have your own account and just want simple storage, try JungleDisk (now Rackspace).  If you are looking for something more sophisticated, check out ElephantDrive (some say they are backed by Intel, but I couldn’t find confirmation on their site).

This looks like a very exciting project and I would like to be involved. I am interested in the software development manager position and I am sending in my resume today. I would love to have the opportunity to speak with the hiring manager. You guys that are already involved are lucky. I have a lot of experience working with new ventures, wearing several hats and limiting expenses.

I would like to “echo” the gentleman above about support requests bouncing back.  Mozypro’s MX record is screwed up with a cuda.decho.com entry going to 0.0.0.0.  Somebody needs to fix this.  It’s only been messed up for a month.  I’m sure you’ll jump all over it.

It looks like that Mozy is going downhill.

Just have a look at this blog from one of the experts of online backup:
http://blogs.vembu.com/2008/12/may-be-i-am-not-so-impressed-with-emc-after-all/

I also checked Mozy’s ranking at http://www.BackupReview.info and it is sad to see a company ranked at #1 once is now ranked at #9. Go figure!
http://www.backupreview.info/2009/03/01/top-25-for-march-2009/

Kushpreet,

Appreciate the comment. Vembu is a competitor so you might not want to place too much credence in their opinions about Mozy. 

Similarly, Backup Review says their ratings “are determined mainly on news releases in the preceding month…“ which probably isn’t the best way to pick an online backup service.

As for reviews, here are a few good ones to read about Mozy:

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904162_pf.html

Honolulu Star Bulletin
http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/techview/20090119_In_case_you_still_havent_back_up_now.html

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/technology/personaltech/23basics1.html?_r=1

Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2008/tc20081215_014901.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_technology

Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/id/171245

Kushpreet,

Market share numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, especially from an outfit that sells online backup.  All I know is Mozy works and will be around tomorrow.  The problem with these little companies with limited capital that worries me is their long term solvency.  When does a sky diver find out that someone packed his parachute wrong?  Point being just like EMC’s SRDF in 9/11 and in the brown out of 2003, Mozy is battled tested and proven reliable when customers need it.  For instance consider the two people on flight 1549 that USA today wrote an article on.  One of them was a Mozy customer and the other, well he’ll be trying to recreate data by some other process. 
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/03/when-your-lapto.html

GM and Chrysler both have a larger market share then BMW, Lexus, Honda, Nissan and look how that’s panning out for them.  So when it comes to protecting my data I’ll go with a company that does 13 Billion a year in revenue and has been protecting data for over two decades.  Maybe the others in this space that offer their service for free can find additional rounds of VC until the industry consolidates.  I mean that must be their plan or they would have some other means of monetizing their product if consumers found it valuable.

Hey BTW, that same site you referenced just posted a great article   “Mozy Doubles Number Of Its Healthcare Customers”.  I guess folks just trust an EMC company with their sensitive information.  As for that other fellow’s blog (the one who started all of those start up companies he doesn’t mention) who’s complaint was that Decho wasn’t blogging enough, I’m thinking that it may be because they’re (Decho/Mozy) too busy generating revenue by selling cloud services, protecting and securing customers data.