Mozy

Computers are prone to several kinds of risks, which may include hard drive crashes, natural disasters, virus-attacks, and thefts. The occurrence of any of the above accidents can lead to data loss which can pose serious problems for the user. Therefore, to avoid any havoc situation, back up is required. Mozy is a highly reliable on line back-up providing system, which helps in keeping the important stuff on one's computer safe. A copy of important data is stored remotely, at a secured location, so that in the event of disaster it is still retrievable. With Mozy, online storage becomes very easy and affordable. One can access his/her backed-up files from just about anywhere. After signing up with Mozy, users can relieve themselves of the worries of losing data and taking backups. Mozy is a smart-system as it is able to back-up opened as well as locked files. It is available in two different forms, MozyHome Unlimited and Mozy Pro. MozyHome Unlimited is for personal use while Mozy Pro is more suitable for business purposes.

Mozy is primarily a software company which was established in 2005. It believes in simplifying things to unbelievable levels and facilitating complex things. The company is located in American Fork, Utah. Over time Mozy has become a popular choice of businesspersons and individuals. Currently more than 700,000 users including 20,000 businesses are registered with Mozy.

Mozy is more reliable and an affordable back-up application as compared to other similar on-line back up application. It works automatically and the user is not required to do much to create a back up, whereas other applications mandate a considerably more manual work. Any newly added file is itself detected and backed-up by Mozy.

Mozy has a very normal look just like many other application based websites. The background is elegant white with blue or black text used on it. The logo appears on the top left corner of the homepage in gray text. Navigating through the website is easy and smooth. There are no advertisements to annoy the users. Although the site looks a bit crowded with all the text.

In order to create a back-up, it is mandatory for the user to sign-up with Mozy. Registration process is effortless and appreciably quick. Users are requested to click on the sign-up button and provide general information like name, email, and password. Apart from this, users are asked to select the plan- MozyHome or Mozy Pro, as per their requirement. Once the user submits the required information, he/she is directly moved on to the payment details page, wherein payment related information like name of card, card number, expiration, city, country etc needs to be entered. A link for downloading and installing Mozy on one's computer is sent on the email provided by the user, from where the user can download and install the application. Once installation is completed, the user is ready to select the files to be backed-up and subsequent to that the rest is done by Mozy.

Mozy is a simple, automatic, and secure way of storing important stuff on one's computer remotely on the Internet. Mozy is available in two formats viz. MozyHome and Mozy Pro. MozyHome is available at $4.95 per month with unlimited storage, whereas, Mozy Pro is available in Desktop Licenses (price $3.95 with $0.50/GB per month) and Server Licenses (price $6.95 with $1.75/GB per month). Besides these two options, Mozy has a free sign-up plan also that provides free 2GB storage space.

Mozy can be used both by individuals and businesses. For individual users, MozyHome is recommended and for businesses and big organizations, MozyPro is recommended. It is the leader in providing online backups and therefore is very popular among a lot of people. It doles out much useful functionalities like safety, authenticated accessibility, and creating back up of opened and closed files on its own.

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