How you backup your PC is becoming increasingly important, especially for those of us that keep EVERYTHING on there. Thousands of family pictures and memories, not to mention TV series and that massive movie collection are amongst the most important. Keeping everything in one place, i.e. your house, is a great start but it’s good to have some offsite backup with the likes of something like Mozy or a BT digital vault.
We’ll today there’s a new player in the market, and it’s a trusted brand for millions of people (unless they’ve ever sent you a massive mobile data bill). Vodafone have announced an interesting partnership in the UK with Decho (which is actually the company behind Mozy and is also owned by EMC). In the UK this will be a big value add thing for Vodafone as they struggle to differentiate their offerings like all mobile operators. For Decho it means breaking a new market as the Mozy brand isn’t well known, no iJustine on TV advertising it over here. The interesting thing is, what does it mean for us?
Well I’m hoping we’ll see better priced (or free for Vodafone customers?) cloud backup. There is no word on pricing at this stage, but I reckon it might mean that at least people will get an idea that they might be able to make backups.
What are people out there doing for backup, how does your strategy work? Mine, I backup to Mozy right now (and also sync lots of stuff with Live Mesh), what about you?
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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion.
