Online Backup Providers Add Mac Support

By James Rogers, May 1, 2008

EMC's Mozy subsidiary and its Carbonite rival are taking aim at Mac users

EMC signaled its intentions to break into the consumer space today with an enhanced version of its Mozy online backup software, which can now handle data from both Windows and Mac devices.

“Previously, Mozy was just for Windows data,” says Vance Checketts, COO at Mozy, which EMC bought for $76 million last year. “Now it’s also for Mac, starting with the consumer, and moving soon to a business version.”

The exec added that the consumer market for Mac-based online backup is massive, as evidenced by the fact that there have been 43,000 beta downloads of the MozyHome for Mac product.

Mozy is touting its Mac offering as …

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