Monday, March 17, 2008

Online Storage

    When I started looking for a website for storage I chose Mozypro. Mozypro is an EMC Company. Mozypro provides the service of backing up files on your computer through the web for either home use or business use.

Mozypro offers three feature areas such as security, performance and easy use. The security feature supplies the consumer with a 128-bit SSL encryption, 448-bit Blowfish encryption, and private encryption key options and near continuous data protection. The 128-bit SSL encryption safely secures your data transport; the 448-bit Blowfish encryption safely secures your data on Mozy Inc.'s servers; the private encryption key options choose Mozy's own 448-bit key or manage your own private key to encrypt your data and the near continuous data protection automatically detects and backs up new and changed files every 2 hours. The performance feature provides automatic or scheduled backup, block level incremental backups which saves the bandwidth and ensures future backups are lightning fast, and bandwidth throttling which allows you to tell Mozypro to upload bandwidth so other higher priority services can run unimpeded. The easy use service allows version support which gives you the option of restoring multiple file versions up to 30 days in the past, network drive support which gives you the ability to back up networked or mapped drives and Windows server support which allows windows to be backed up.\

With every storage site there are pros and cons. The pros of Mozypro allow one to store files and there is around the clock tech service; one can even chat online to a tech person if they needed to. A couple of cons dealing with Mozypro are the cost because for desktop licenses it is $3.95 + $0.50/GB per month and server licenses is $6.95 + $1.75/GB per month. One can be billed monthly, annually or biennially. I think you can only use Mozypro for windows and not any other program. I would use this as a backup for my computer because I am always on the internet and if a virus were to crash my computer I would be able to locate any lost or locked files.