Cisco and Iomega to Integrate Mozy's Hybrid Backup Solution

An EMC (News - Alert) subsidiary and major online backup service from EMC Corporation, Mozy announced a strategic partnership with Cisco (News - Alert) and Iomega (an EMC company). This marks the first collaboration where these two companies are going to include MozyPro in their respective storage offerings.

According to its maker, MozyPro solution can simplify the disaster recovery and business continuity plans of small businesses cost-effectively.

In a press release, Mozy explained that the need for simplified business disaster preparedness is continuously rising—leading small businesses to increasingly adopt safe, cost-effective backup and storage solutions. Mozy’s fully integrated backup service has a hybrid approach which combines local and online backup.

According to the company, this hybrid approach is fast gaining in popularity as this approach significantly helps in reducing the complex overhead and excessive administrative costs traditionally required by tape-based backup.

This hybrid solution is provided through the integration of MozyPro with one of several NAS vendors to simplify a company's data protection stack. With two layers of redundant data protection, both local and online, SMBs can focus more on their business and worry less about data backup, the company explained.

MozyConnect integrated with Cisco NSS300 Series Smart Storage, as well as with Iomega StorCenter desktop and rackmount network storage devices, which are expected to give customers a fully integrated solution for backing up their critical business data locally on the device and online in Mozy's secure datacenters.

“As we continue to protect more and more businesses with MozyPro, we have heard the growing need to offer this hybrid approach. We're excited that Cisco and Iomega are the first two network-attached storage providers to work with us to fill this need, and we look forward to adding more vendors to our MozyConnect service in the future,” VP of product management for Mozy Russ Stockdale commented in a statement.

Mozy also announced that MozyConnect for Cisco Smart Storage is available now via Mozy direct sales and through Mozy resellers, as well as all Cisco partners.

MozyConnect for Iomega StorCenter Network Storage products is scheduled for availability in the spring of 2011.