Cloud storage to be offered through EMC by Vodafone UK

With the use of the EMC Mozy facility the mobile broadband network operator, Vodafone will soon be offering consumers and small businesses a cloud based backup service that will allow them to store all their information remotely.

A strategic partnership with Decho, which is a subsidiary company created in 2008 by EMC in order to offer products like Mozy and other Software-as-a-service (SaaS), was announce recently by Vodafone group. In a recent statement the operator advised Decho and Vodafone will “develop a range of cloud-based services for both business customers and consumers.”

Vodafone PC Backup, which will allow users to use a remotely hosted site to securely backup their data over a broadband connection, then use a browser on a laptop or desktop system to either share or view the data.

A web-based management console that will centrally control permissions for a number of users and storage allocation will also be made available to business users.

In a statement the director of Vodafone mobile broadband, Huw Medcraft said “Our customers are often using a range of connected devices each day, with different information and data contained on each one.”

He also added “Vodafone PC Backup will enable them to centrally store this content, providing users with the added reassurance that as a Vodafone customer their files — be they critical work documents for businesses or family photographs — will be there when they need it and accessible through a variety of devices and across both fixed and mobile networks.”

According to a Vodafone spokesperson the Vodafone PC Backup service will be offered as part of the operator’s high-end mobile broadband and fixed line broadband along with antivirus software when it is launched at some point over the next year.

Source – Zdnet