{"id":1728,"date":"2007-09-23T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T03:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/23\/mozy-on-over-and-get-your-76-million\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T03:31:16","slug":"mozy-on-over-and-get-your-76-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/23\/mozy-on-over-and-get-your-76-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozy on over and get your $76-million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Arrington has the news over at TechCrunch that Mozy has reportedly been acquired<\/a> by EMC for $76-million. If true, that’s a pretty nice payout for a company that has raised relatively little venture capital. <\/p>\n

I don’t use Mozy on a day-to-day basis, but I tried out an early beta and have used it off and on over the past year or so (I’ve also tried Carbonite.com and several other competitors), and I have to say I’ve been very impressed. It is easy to use and configure, and appears to be fairly light as far as system resources are concerned — everything one could want in a Web 2.0 storage app.<\/p>\n

I interviewed CEO Josh Coates awhile back for a story<\/a> I wrote for the Globe, and he impressed me as well — a very smart guy, who started Mozy’s parent company, Berkeley Systems, using technology developed while studying large-scale database management. <\/p>\n

We talked about Google’s much-rumoured GDrive, as I recall, and he said a true “web-based hard drive” would be a difficult thing even for Google to do, let alone offer free of charge. But the rumours continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mike Arrington has the news over at TechCrunch that Mozy has reportedly been acquired by EMC for $76-million. If true, that’s a pretty nice payout for a company that has raised relatively little venture capital. I don’t use Mozy on a day-to-day basis, but I tried out an early beta and have used it off … <\/p>\n

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