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Mozy Imposes New Prices On Their Services

Posted on: March 11th, 2012 by admin 1 Comment

New Mozy Pricing

With the new demands in data backup, Mozy found it necessary to adjust their prices recently in order to serve their customers fully at their full potential. Mozy, in contrast to almost all data backup companies decided to increase some of their rates instead of maintaining their unlimited plan for a constant price with some restriction.

According to Mozy President Harel Kodesh, the constant demand for data and the advent of technology in producing more vivid pictures and videos that consume more data space has pushed them into making these changes. Mozy has maintained a constant price on their services since 2006 and it has only been up to this year that they decided to change their pricing. The increase isn’t that big as Mozy stresses that for most of their customers it would only be a dollar per month. Of course as your data plan would increase, so is the rate of increase in terms of pricing.

Other Companies’ Responses

Many companies have responded differently compared to how Mozy responded with the problem. Due to increase in data demand, many companies weren’t able to cope up with this; hence, they decided to stop their services. Some companies on the other hand continued to have their unlimited backup with still the same price but they imposed bandwidth and file density caps to their customers. According to Mozy, they didn’t want to “choke” their customers or even have a “façade of seemingly unlimited data plan” that’s why they decided to increase their prices a bit to still continue serving their customers. Moreover they told the press that service is their utmost priority and that is why they are willing to increase a bit so as not to sacrifice service, security and ease of access.

New Pricing

Mozy’s new pricing now takes away the unlimited data plan and they made plans more flexible. The most basic is $5.99 with 50GB storage in a single computer. The 250GB storage plan however is more expensive with $9.99 a month which can be shared with up to three computers.

 

 

Online Encryption: Are They Really Secured?

Posted on: March 1st, 2012 by admin 1 Comment

Online Backup Encryption: Are Your Files Secured?

Many individuals fear that if they back their system files up through various online backup systems, then their data might get lost, hacked, peeked at, or stolen. This fear is especially true for businesses and other corporations who do not wish to let their competitors know their server files for confidentiality’s sake. However, is there even any reason to fear? Are online backup systems really secured? Read on as we uncover the security levels of these companies and from that, you can evaluate for yourself whether online backup systems are really secured or not.

Primary Security Level: Banking

Your company uses a minimum security level of 128-bit SSL encryption. This Secure Security Layer is being implemented by backup companies as a primary level of their security system. This security system is just the same with what backs use for your transactions. So, if you know for sure that banks do a great job in security, and then you might as well say that online backup companies are even better since the maximum security protection of banks is just the minimum security level of online backup companies.

Client Vis-à-vis Server Recognition Program

Online backup companies also provide a 3rd party program that secures your connection on them while you are backing up your files. This program “marks” your computer and the server in the sense that the server and your computer are the only ones that will recognize themselves. Think of it as two persons trying to meet in person and they decide to wear something that is unique in order for them to recognize themselves and not mistake the one for another person. This is how these 3rd party programs work. No other computer can then interfere or peek at the data exchange because of this. You are then sure that your data are secured at the very least.

Advanced Encryption

Data encryption does not start there. If that is not enough, online backup systems put up a tough fight for hackers as they even implement Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and 448-Blowfish encryption systems in their servers. These are very hard to crack and are even used by military operations. Hackers cannot easily hack server files if the data encryption is as of these levels. Think of it as an encryption within an encryption that the odds of ever being lucky to crack it are 1/1000.

Backing Up What They Had Backed Up

But emergencies might happen. This is where the backup systems of online backup companies appear. They provide backup to their server files so that if ever their server gets haywire, your files are still secured and stored in other backup centers under the same company.

Conclusion

Nothing in this world is ever perfect. The system is only as strong as the strongest and most skilled developer and hacker. If a very persistent and extremely brilliant hacker decides to hack your files through these companies, it would take him too long that he can be caught while doing it. Therefore, you can really be sure that your data are very much protected on online backup systems.