I got this email yesterday from a MozyPro salesdude about our account … the gist is a HUGE price increase is coming

"As
a valued customer, I wanted to provide you with advance notice of a new MozyPro
backup offering. March 2008, the MozyPro service will expand to include both a
desktop and a server license.

The
MozyPro desktop offering will run exclusively on desktop operating systems and
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. In addition to all the features found in the
desktop offering, the robust MozyPro server product offers: 

• Desktop and Microsoft Windows server OS support
• Network share support (only available with server
       license)
• VSS writer backup and restore to Exchange, SYSVOL, and
       Active Directory  

Here’s
how it will affect you as a customer: 

New
server and/or desktop licenses purchased including storage purchased and
assigned to these licenses will fall under MozyPro’s new pricing and product
plan. 

Existing
MozyPro licenses and storage on your account will be "grandfathered"
and pricing will remain the same. Any additional storage purchased and assigned
to a grandfathered license will retain MozyPro’s existing pricing plan as well.
Grandfathered licenses will retain existing features, functionality, and
support. 

Take
advantage of MozyPro’s current product pricing:

Any
licenses and storage you purchase before March 1, 2008 will be
grandfathered. That means you’ll lock in the current MozyPro license offering
and price!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#   Server Licenses	#   GB	Grandfathered   Pricing per Month	New Server Pricing per   Month
1	10	$8.95	$24.45
5	20	$29.75	$69.75
10	100	$89.50	$244.50
20	500	$329.00	$1,014.00

If
you anticipate needing additional licenses, purchasing now will save you money.
If you switch your account to one of the discounted yearly or two-year
plans, you will save at least 10% more as well.  Now is an excellent
time to save money on our service. 

Please
contact me with your questions, to purchase more resources, or to take
advantage of one of our discounted plans."

Don’t forget non-profits also get a 10% discount as well … or at least they did.  Guess a good thing can only last so long.  An approx quadrupling in price seems ridiculous to me, but what do I know.  Thank goodness for the grandfather clause

Also to note is the newer MozyEnterprise product line … what caught my eye about this new offering is the local pre-population of data before you start backing up over the wire.

MozyEnterprise is a new offering based on the award-winning Mozy™; family of online backup SaaS solutions that became part of EMC with the October 2007 acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems.
MozyEnterprise is an enhanced, highly scalable online backup and
recovery solution that has been made enterprise-ready with several new
features important to enterprise customers, including:

                   

• Enhanced
  security through RSA, the Security Division of EMC™ including
  integrated key management, authentication and authorization security
  features
• Rapid enterprise-wide
  deployment options such as assisted activation, auto-activation and
  proxy support as well as physical seeding up to 2 TB for larger devices
  to speed delivery of first backups and facilitate rapid rollouts in an
  enterprise environments
• Enterprise-class
  availability and support options tailored to meet the more demanding
  performance and availability needs required by large organizations
• Economical
  off-site data protection for remote servers, desktops and laptops
  located anywhere on a network—comparable solutions cost up to 10 times
  more than MozyEnterprise.

MozyEnterprise powered by EMC Fortress is available immediately in
North America through EMC and its reseller partners. EMC plans to offer
MozyEnterprise to its partners and customers outside of North America
later in 2008. MozyEnterprise requires no minimum contract and imposes
no fees for early service cancellation. Monthly subscription list
prices are:

                   

• Desktop/laptop - $5.25/mo. per desktop/laptop plus $0.70/mo. per gigabyte protected
• Windows Server - $9.25/mo. per supported Windows server plus $2.35/mo. per gigabyte protected

Guess I’ll be making some calls to Mozy this week and see what makes the most sense for GCC.

I got this email yesterday from a MozyPro salesdude about our account … the gist is a HUGE price increase is coming

"As
a valued customer, I wanted to provide you with advance notice of a new MozyPro
backup offering. March 2008, the MozyPro service will expand to include both a
desktop and a server license.

The
MozyPro desktop offering will run exclusively on desktop operating systems and
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. In addition to all the features found in the
desktop offering, the robust MozyPro server product offers: 

• Desktop and Microsoft Windows server OS support
• Network share support (only available with server
       license)
• VSS writer backup and restore to Exchange, SYSVOL, and
       Active Directory  

Here’s
how it will affect you as a customer: 

New
server and/or desktop licenses purchased including storage purchased and
assigned to these licenses will fall under MozyPro’s new pricing and product
plan. 

Existing
MozyPro licenses and storage on your account will be "grandfathered"
and pricing will remain the same. Any additional storage purchased and assigned
to a grandfathered license will retain MozyPro’s existing pricing plan as well.
Grandfathered licenses will retain existing features, functionality, and
support. 

Take
advantage of MozyPro’s current product pricing:

Any
licenses and storage you purchase before March 1, 2008 will be
grandfathered. That means you’ll lock in the current MozyPro license offering
and price!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#   Server Licenses	#   GB	Grandfathered   Pricing per Month	New Server Pricing per   Month
1	10	$8.95	$24.45
5	20	$29.75	$69.75
10	100	$89.50	$244.50
20	500	$329.00	$1,014.00

If
you anticipate needing additional licenses, purchasing now will save you money.
If you switch your account to one of the discounted yearly or two-year
plans, you will save at least 10% more as well.  Now is an excellent
time to save money on our service. 

Please
contact me with your questions, to purchase more resources, or to take
advantage of one of our discounted plans."

Don’t forget non-profits also get a 10% discount as well … or at least they did.  Guess a good thing can only last so long.  An approx quadrupling in price seems ridiculous to me, but what do I know.  Thank goodness for the grandfather clause

Also to note is the newer MozyEnterprise product line … what caught my eye about this new offering is the local pre-population of data before you start backing up over the wire.

MozyEnterprise is a new offering based on the award-winning Mozy™; family of online backup SaaS solutions that became part of EMC with the October 2007 acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems.
MozyEnterprise is an enhanced, highly scalable online backup and
recovery solution that has been made enterprise-ready with several new
features important to enterprise customers, including:

                   

• Enhanced
  security through RSA, the Security Division of EMC™ including
  integrated key management, authentication and authorization security
  features
• Rapid enterprise-wide
  deployment options such as assisted activation, auto-activation and
  proxy support as well as physical seeding up to 2 TB for larger devices
  to speed delivery of first backups and facilitate rapid rollouts in an
  enterprise environments
• Enterprise-class
  availability and support options tailored to meet the more demanding
  performance and availability needs required by large organizations
• Economical
  off-site data protection for remote servers, desktops and laptops
  located anywhere on a network—comparable solutions cost up to 10 times
  more than MozyEnterprise.

MozyEnterprise powered by EMC Fortress is available immediately in
North America through EMC and its reseller partners. EMC plans to offer
MozyEnterprise to its partners and customers outside of North America
later in 2008. MozyEnterprise requires no minimum contract and imposes
no fees for early service cancellation. Monthly subscription list
prices are:

                   

• Desktop/laptop - $5.25/mo. per desktop/laptop plus $0.70/mo. per gigabyte protected
• Windows Server - $9.25/mo. per supported Windows server plus $2.35/mo. per gigabyte protected

Guess I’ll be making some calls to Mozy this week and see what makes the most sense for GCC.

Perimeter is a "PC Shop," no doubt about it.  And, like most other places, we get a lot of pressure for Mac support.  There is good argument that Macs are a lot better at many things, so there are times where a Mac makes sense.  But, back to my first statement, "Perimeter is a PC Shop."

I may be overstating this a bit, but there seems to be some correlation between being a Mac user and being a bit of the defiant/rebellious type.  Rules?  Who needs ‘em?  However, to say that’s true of all Mac users would be way out of line.  For instance, one of our Mac users went so far as to put a really nice post on his blog.  It’s worth a read:

If you’re a Mac user at Perimeter

Thanks Scott!