EMC forms Decho to address growing personal information challenge
ConvergenceAsia staff
20/11/2008

Information infrastructure solutions company EMC has established Decho Corporation (www.decho.com), a new company focused on helping people protect, manage and enrich the ever-growing quantity of personal digital information in their lives, also known as an individual’s “digital echo”. Decho will be a combination of two formerly separate EMC businesses – Mozy and Pi, and will continue to offer consumers and businesses the top-rated Mozy-branded online backup service (www.mozy.com), as well as introduce new cloud-based services for individuals over time.

“There is an immense, untapped business opportunity as personal information management inevitably migrates into the cloud,” said David Goulden, EMC Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. “By bringing Mozy and Pi together to form Decho as a new subsidiary, we are creating a focused organisation that can deliver on the promise of cloud-based personal information management and can help individuals everywhere preserve, manage and enrich the information most important to them.”

Decho is wholly owned by EMC, which acquired Mozy in October 2007 and Pi in February 2008. Headquartered in Seattle, the new company will maintain and grow its development and operations centres in Bangalore, Montreal, Seattle and Utah.

The company will help individuals take full control of their digital echo through a set of cloud-based services that will enable easy and full utilisation, organisation and enrichment of important personal information.

Decho’s initial service offering is the Mozy online backup service for both consumers and businesses. With over 900,000 users and over 25,000 business customers, Mozy safeguards over 10 petabytes (over ten million gigabytes) of customer information at its data centres around the world. Mozy online back up offers simple, automatic and secure online backup for both consumers and businesses, with support for laptops, desktops and servers running either Mac OS X or Windows.

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