EMC Upping Prices for MozyPro Online Backup /*** Updated ***/

February 26, 2008

By Chris Preimesberger

Updated on February 28, 2008 with new links in “Related Stories” section, below:

EMC, owner of the MozyPro online backup service since fall of 2007, sent e-mail notices to its customers on Feb. 25 saying prices for its popular SMB server backup service would be going up substantially on March 1.

The e-mail from EMC’s sales department said, ”The MozyPro [consumer] desktop offering will maintain the same low monthly price of $3.95 per license and 50 cents per GB [of stored capacity] … The new MozyPro server offering will be available at a monthly price of $6.95 per license and $1.75 cents per GB.”

Existing MozyPro licenses and storage on individual accounts purchased before March 1, 2008, will be “grandfathered” and pricing will remain the same, the e-mail said. Any additional storage purchased and assigned to a grandfathered license also will retain MozyPro’s existing pricing plan. Grandfathered licenses will retain existing features, functionality and support, EMC said.

However, beginning on March 1, customers face the following prices: For a single server license plus 10GB of capacity, the cost jumps from $8.95 per month to $24.45 per month. For five server licenses and 20GB, the price goes from $29.75 to $69.75 per month.

For 10 licenses and 100GB, the pricing jumps from $89.50 to $244.50 per month, and for 20 servers and 500GB, the cost rockets from $329.00 to $1,014 per month.

EMC spokesperson Kevin Kempskie told eWEEK that the price changes for MozyPro server put the license model more in line with pricing for the MozyEnterprise server.

“Mozy proactively gave our resellers a heads-up about the price change more than a week ago and solicited their opinions on what was most fair and reasonable. The overwhelming response from our resellers was that this is something they can work with,” Kempskie said.

The pricing difference between MozyEnterprise and MozyPro is a reflection of EMC and Mozy “fine-tuning our offerings to best fit our customer requirements,” Kempskie said.

Jason Powell, a MozyPro user who works as IT director at Granger Community Church, a nonprofit, wrote in his blog about being taken aback by the price changes.
 

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