VMware acquires EMC’s Mozy

| April 5, 2011 | Comments (1)

VMware is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market with the acquisition of EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. The deal was announced Monday by VMWare’s CTO Steve Herrod.

According to a blog by Herrod, “VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption”. No financial figures were mentioned for the transaction.

Herrod went on to say, “However, the strategic relevance of today’s news is what this group brings to VMware. Over the past 5 years, Mozy has built one of the best examples of a globally distributed, large-scale cloud offering. We believe that, by being directly engaged with the delivery of such a service, VMware will further ramp our own cloud-related learning and accelerate new IP, scale, and capabilities into the products that we provide to our customers and public cloud partners.”

He discussed some of the figures behind VMWare’s interest in Mozy – over a million customers and more than 70,000 business customers, as well as a global network of data centers storing over 70 petabytes of data.

Mozy is expected to help VMware better serve the small/medium business market which Herrod believes is moving rapidly to the cloud. This means that VMWare will evocatively become EMC’s cloud service delivery business, ostensibly to take on Amazon, Google and Azure in offering mass-market SMB and cloud IT services.   VMWare will also gain the opportunity to leverage Mozy’s data compression, synchronisation, client integration, and analytic tools to extend several existing and not-yet-announced VMware products.”

For VMWare, Mozy is about more than just simple backing up of data. They have taken the basic technology that keeps users from losing their data and “turned it into a scalable, fail-safe way of building out a collection of highly-automated datacenters with strong security and 24/7 operations fronted by elegant, user interfaces across many client types.”  Herrod believes that this makes Mozy the foundational architecture for the many cloud-based services being delivered today.

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  • http://www.topcloudcomputingcompanies.net Nanospeck

    VMware is really focussing well on cloud computing. They have lunched numerous virtualization servies and certifications for them paralelly. They have good research base and startegy to compete with the big players! Really informative article.