Posted by David Berlind

Oct 10, 2008

Earlier this week, InformationWeek’s Antone Gonsalves reported on EMC (NYSE: EMC)’s launch of MozyPro, an online backup service for business desktop, notebook, and servers running Apple’s Mac OS X. There’s a consumer version, too. As business user of a MacBook Pro, I’m candidate for this service. I use VMware’s Fusion (also owned by EMC), so my Mac can host an x86 virtual machine (VM) that runs Windows Vista when I need it to. I’ll give Mozy a looksie. But, moving forward, desktop VM technologies like Fusion and VMware Workstation raise interesting questions about the traditional approach to “backing up.”

Ask most people if they back their systems up, and the answer is invariably “no.” Ask them what they’re going to do when their notebook or desktop goes belly up, and typically, you just get nervous laughter. Most people are gambling with whatever is on their hard drive. I have to admit, I am, too, to a certain extent. I copy the handful of files that I’m terrified of losing to an external USB-based hard drive.

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