I got this email yesterday from a MozyPro salesdude about our account ... the gist is a HUGE price increase is coming :-(
"As
a valued customer, I wanted to provide you with advance notice of a new MozyPro
backup offering. March 2008, the MozyPro service will expand to include both a
desktop and a server license.
The
MozyPro desktop offering will run exclusively on desktop operating systems and
will maintain the same low monthly price of $3.95 per license and 50 cents per
GB.
The
new MozyPro server offering will be available at a monthly price of $6.95 per
license and $1.75 cents per GB. In addition to all the features found in the
desktop offering, the robust MozyPro server product offers:
- Desktop and Microsoft Windows server OS support
- Network share support (only available with server
license)
- VSS writer backup and restore to Exchange, SYSVOL, and
Active Directory
Here's
how it will affect you as a customer:
New
server and/or desktop licenses purchased including storage purchased and
assigned to these licenses will fall under MozyPro's new pricing and product
plan.
Existing
MozyPro licenses and storage on your account will be "grandfathered"
and pricing will remain the same. Any additional storage purchased and assigned
to a grandfathered license will retain MozyPro's existing pricing plan as well.
Grandfathered licenses will retain existing features, functionality, and
support.
Take
advantage of MozyPro's current product pricing:
Any
licenses and storage you purchase before March 1, 2008 will be
grandfathered. That means you'll lock in the current MozyPro license offering
and price!
#
Server Licenses
|
#
GB
|
Grandfathered
Pricing per Month
|
New Server Pricing per
Month
|
1
|
10
|
$8.95
|
$24.45
|
5
|
20
|
$29.75
|
$69.75
|
10
|
100
|
$89.50
|
$244.50
|
20
|
500
|
$329.00
|
$1,014.00
|
If
you anticipate needing additional licenses, purchasing now will save you money.
If you switch your account to one of the discounted yearly or two-year
plans, you will save at least 10% more as well. Now is an excellent
time to save money on our service.
Please
contact me with your questions, to purchase more resources, or to take
advantage of one of our discounted plans."
Don't forget non-profits also get a 10% discount as well ... or at least they did. Guess a good thing can only last so long. An approx quadrupling in price seems ridiculous to me, but what do I know. Thank goodness for the grandfather clause :-)
Also to note is the newer MozyEnterprise product line ... what caught my eye about this new offering is the local pre-population of data before you start backing up over the wire.
MozyEnterprise is a new offering based on the award-winning Mozy™; family of online backup SaaS solutions that became part of EMC with the October 2007 acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems.
MozyEnterprise is an enhanced, highly scalable online backup and
recovery solution that has been made enterprise-ready with several new
features important to enterprise customers, including:
- Enhanced
security through RSA, the Security Division of EMC™ including
integrated key management, authentication and authorization security
features
- Rapid enterprise-wide
deployment options such as assisted activation, auto-activation and
proxy support as well as physical seeding up to 2 TB for larger devices
to speed delivery of first backups and facilitate rapid rollouts in an
enterprise environments
- Enterprise-class
availability and support options tailored to meet the more demanding
performance and availability needs required by large organizations
- Economical
off-site data protection for remote servers, desktops and laptops
located anywhere on a network—comparable solutions cost up to 10 times
more than MozyEnterprise.
MozyEnterprise powered by EMC Fortress is available immediately in
North America through EMC and its reseller partners. EMC plans to offer
MozyEnterprise to its partners and customers outside of North America
later in 2008. MozyEnterprise requires no minimum contract and imposes
no fees for early service cancellation. Monthly subscription list
prices are:
- Desktop/laptop - $5.25/mo. per desktop/laptop plus $0.70/mo. per gigabyte protected
- Windows Server - $9.25/mo. per supported Windows server plus $2.35/mo. per gigabyte protected
Guess I'll be making some calls to Mozy this week and see what makes the most sense for GCC.
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