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Mozy Release For Mac Sets Industry Standard For Unlimited Online Backup

First Full-Featured Unlimited Online Backup Service for Apple OS X; MozyHome for Mac Immediately Available at $4.95 Per Month

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Thursday, May 1, 2008 – Mozy, Inc., part of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC), today announced the release of MozyHome for Mac, the industry's first unlimited online backup service for the Mac. Mac users in the home can now safely and cost-effectively back up all of their digital information over the Internet. With more than 700,000 total users worldwide and 6.2 billion files backed up, Mozy is the leading online backup service of choice for consumers and small businesses.

"Mozy is honoring its roots by augmenting its service to consumers and small businesses," said Vance Checketts, chief operating officer for Mozy. "We've had more than 43,000 individuals participate in our public beta and have devoted thousands of hours of development to this new MozyHome for Mac release."

Designed as a consumer service, MozyHome for Mac offers 2 gigabytes of online backup absolutely free with no expiration date, or $4.95 a month for unlimited online backup capacity. Mozy automatically protects all computer files including photos, music, videos and financial documents from data loss in the event of hard drive crash, accidental deletion, natural disaster or theft. All files are encrypted with 448-bit Blowfish encryption and the encrypted files are transferred via a 128-bit SSL connection – the same encryption used for online banking – during the backup process for extra security. After the initial backup, Mozy only backs up incremental changes to files and folders, meaning subsequent backups run extremely fast. In addition to the most recent backup, Mozy keeps 30 days worth of file versions as well. In the event of data loss, files may be recovered via the Mozy client software, downloaded from the Mozy website, or by ordering the files on a set of DVDs from Mozy.

"I had just completed my transition from Tiger to Leopard when my hard drive crashed," said Donald Malm who participated in the MozyHome for Mac beta. "The restore of all my data from Mozy was completed without a single error. My Quicken data was exactly where I had left off the day before the crash. Never have I made a better purchasing decision since I started in the insurance and financial system design industry 52 years ago."

Later this summer, Mozy will release a business version of its Mac service to enhance its MozyPro and MozyEnterprise offerings. More than 20,000 business customers already trust Mozy to back up their data, and Mozy is currently backing up more than 7.5 petabytes, the equivalent to 7.8 million gigabytes, across multiple data centers. Businesses interested in an online backup service for the Mac can sign up to be notified at http://www.mozy.com/mac/probeta

With the addition of the MozyHome for Mac service, EMC offers Mac users the industry's most robust backup and recovery options. Other data protection offerings for Mac users include EMC Retrospect for Macintosh and EMC LifeLine software.

About Mozy

Mozy is the leader in online data backup for consumers and businesses. With more than 700,000 total users including 20,000 businesses, Mozy offers a simple, automatic and secure service for backing up data over the Internet. Mozy was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2007 and operates as part of the EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. Information can be found at http://mozy.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Public Relations Manager; EMC Mozy; devin@mozy.com; mobile: 801-722-8187

EMC Unveils Software-as-a-service Strategy and Its First Enterprise Offering, MozyEnterprise

EMC Forms Business Unit for New SaaS Offerings

HOPKINTON, MASS - January 22, 2008 - EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled its software-as-a-service (SaaS) strategy and the release of MozyEnterprise™ powered by EMC Fortress™ for online backup of desktops, laptops and remote Windows servers. EMC also announced several new reseller agreements with business partners to offer MozyEnterprise online backup services to their customers. Additionally, EMC is expanding its relationship with Verizon Business to offer this new set of SaaS capabilities.

"Our strategy is focused on bringing new software-as-a-service offerings to market, powered by EMC," said Tom Heiser, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMC's new Software-as-a-Service Business Unit. "We've introduced EMC Fortress, a secure, multi-tenant, scalable SaaS delivery platform providing customers with centralized billing, management and metering. EMC has more than 25 years of information infrastructure management and protection market leadership, and has brought this continued innovation in infrastructure solutions to bear on delivering a new class of SaaS solutions designed to support the enterprise IT needs for customers of all sizes."

MozyEnterprise automates secure online backup and recovery over the Internet for consistent and reliable off-site data protection for remote desktops, laptops and branch office servers. It is the first EMC SaaS application to be built on EMC Fortress, a secure, hardened enterprise-class platform for SaaS delivery. EMC's SaaS strategy calls for the delivery of additional IT-based SaaS applications built on the EMC Fortress platform over time, in key areas such as trusted data services.

Today more than 500,000 business and consumer users trust the Mozy technology to back up their information, including General Electric, Pariveda, NTG Systems, Vanderbilt University and Free The Children.

"Mozy provides Free The Children employees-both domestic and abroad-with easy-to-use, secure and reliable automated backup and an ability to recover data should something happen to a computer," said Aimable Mugara, IT Director, Free The Children, the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. "This solution provides our organization with a centralized and automated view of our backup operation for desktops, laptops and remote Windows servers located anywhere on the network. Mozy's business continuity solutions offer a great way to maximize uptime and provide critical data recovery while minimizing gaps in data protection."

MozyEnterprise Integrates Enterprise-class Security and Support

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 Available Through EMC and Key Resellers

MozyEnterprise is available through EMC's direct sales organization with the support of EMC SaaS sales specialists. Additionally, EMC will offer MozyEnterprise through reseller agreements with eFileCabinet, FusionStorm and TelX. EMC is also expanding its relationship with Verizon Business to leverage its EMC Fortress architecture and MozyEnterprise. Resellers and their customers will benefit from minimal ongoing maintenance and training requirements, customization options, and the lower total cost of ownership benefits inherent in the enterprise SaaS model.

"The total cost of ownership and speed of deployment of a SaaS model versus a 'traditional' on-premise model is impressive, especially long term. Online backup and recovery for edge devices, such as desktops and laptops, is a critical service our enterprise customers are asking for to protect data and address business continuity needs. By working with EMC, Verizon Business will be able to provide our customers with automated data protection services coupled with easy deployment. As Verizon Business grows its SaaS offerings beyond the communications applications space into IT management services, MozyEnterprise backup and recovery fits well into our expanding SaaS delivery capabilities."
— Nancy Gofus, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Verizon Business

"We're pleased to partner with EMC, the world leader in next generation backup solutions. eFileCabinet's Concentsus™ online backup service, combined with the award winning Mozy online backup technology delivers a compelling and reliable high performance system for users to cost-effectively protect their valuable data assets from natural or computer disasters."
— Matt Peterson, COO of eFileCabinet

"The cost-efficiency of a SaaS model is heralded by our customers as a huge advantage to their IT and business operations. Combining EMC's storage prowess, Fusion Storm's engineering expertise in providing full lifecycle services for IT, and Mozy's online backup technology offers customers a solution to satisfy their appetites for online backup and recovery of enterprise end user and application data. We're excited for customers to reap the benefits of this partnership."
— Josh Krasnegor, VP of Marketing of FusionStorm

"EMC has a consistent track record of delivering powerful data protection and information infrastructure solutions. Its SaaS offering is a natural fit with Telx's offerings. Customers will now benefit from the combination of Mozy's award-winning online backup technology and Telx's world-class interconnectivity solutions available in our carrier-neutral network rich, collocation facilities nationwide."
— Eric Shepcaro, Chairman and CEO of Telx

Pricing and Availability

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

About EMC

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Public Relations Manager; EMC Mozy; devin@mozy.com; mobile: 801-722-8187

EMC Mozy Offers Complimentary Data Restores to California Fire Victims

AMERICAN FORK, Utah — November 9, 2007 — EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced an initiative by its Mozy subsidiary to help victims of the fires in Southern California. The initiative provides a toll-free number to help residents of Southern California who have questions about their computer data. Mozy is also offering complimentary DVDs with restored data to business and consumer customers affected by the disaster.

"We at EMC Mozy are concerned and want to do all we can to help," said Vance Checketts, director of business operations at EMC Mozy. "Those affected by the disaster need to focus on the safety of their families and friends, not how to get data back from their computers. Any Mozy customer in the region can get a free DVD restore and anyone else should use our free version and start backing up today."

Mozy is the leading provider of online backup for consumers and businesses. It provides backup to nearly 400,000 consumers and 10,000 business customers across the world, including GE. Of its many offerings, Mozy provides consumers with a 2 GB free online backup service for the PC and Mac. Features including a private key encryption option, incremental backups, web-based restore options and file versioning.

Mozy customers who want to order the complimentary DVD should call 1-877-588-8747. More information can be obtained at www.mozy.com.

About EMC

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Public Relations Manager; EMC Mozy; devin@mozy.com; mobile: 801-722-8187

EMC Acquires Berkeley Data Systems, Provider of Mozy Online Backup and Recovery Services

HOPKINTON, Mass. — October 4, 2007 — EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has acquired Utah-based Berkeley Data Systems, Inc., a privately-held provider of online information backup and recovery services. Berkeley Data Systems provides Mozy – the industry's premier online subscription services for the protection of data that resides on desktops, laptops and remote office servers. The transaction will not have a material impact on EMC revenues or EPS for 2007.

"Mozy's technology and online delivery model has proven itself to be one of the industry's most admired offerings for customers looking to safely and cost-effectively backup and recover their digital information stored on desktops, laptops, and remote office servers," said Tom Heiser, EMC SVP, Corporate Development and New Ventures. "The acquisition of Mozy is a natural extension of EMC's leadership in the protection and security of personal and business information. We will continue to invest in Mozy's full portfolio of online backup and recovery services and advance the Mozy brand in the marketplace."

"I have been researching and developing internet-scale storage and information management solutions throughout my career," said Josh Coates, founder and former CEO of Berkeley Data Systems. "EMC and Berkeley Data Systems are a natural fit, and I'm confident that EMC is the right organization to take Mozy to the next level. I look forward to working with EMC to continue innovating in the storage and information management industry."

Among Mozy's numerous service accolades this year, Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal writes that he prefers Mozy; Time Magazine readers ranked Mozy.com as the #1 website in 2007; Consumer Reports recommended Mozy to readers on the strength of its feature set and control capabilities; and Smart Computing gave its "Smart Choice" award to Mozy for its full backup abilities, ease of use, and private key encryption option.

About EMC

Press Contact:: Michael Gallant; EMC Corporation; (508) 293-6357; gallant_michael@emc.com

First Unlimited Online Backup for the Mac

Berkeley Data Systems launches Mac Mozy Beta
Unlimited Backup for $4.95 a month

SALT LAKE CITY — Thursday, April 26, 2007 — Berkeley Data Systems releases Mac Mozy public beta — the first unlimited online backup service for Mac users worldwide. At $4.95 a month, the service allows millions of Mac users to encrypt and automatically back up all of their digital media content online, including collections from iTunes and iPhoto.

"The public beta was built by Mac engineers who understand the needs of the Mac community," says Josh Coates, founder and CEO of Berkeley Data. "With more than 1,000 participants in our limited beta, we're excited to be the first to embrace the Mac community with this unlimited online backup service."

Designed as a consumer service, Mac Mozy leverages Apple's innovative Spotlight Search technology, allowing users to easily select the types of files they want to back up. The service installs quickly and runs quietly in the background. Backup speeds vary from user to user, largely determined by the upload speed of the consumer's internet connection.

Mac Mozy offers an added measure of privacy by allowing its users to choose between a Mozy encryption key and a private encryption key. Incremental backups and block level differentials are included, which means subsequent backups complete at a much faster rate than the initial backup. Mozy's servers also retain the most recent version of a file as well as 30 days worth of previously modified file versions. Customers may retrieve files or versions of the files via the internet or by requesting a DVD restore with next-day delivery.*

Berkeley Data Systems is the creator of Mac Mozy and Mozy for Windows. Since the launch of Mozy for Windows in April 2006, the company has scaled to more than 180,000 customers. It now offers online backup to consumers and businesses from the small offices to the large enterprises. Berkeley Data is the industry leader in online backup with the first unlimited online backup service for the Mac.

About Berkeley Data Systems

Berkeley Data Systems is an emerging software technology company that specializes in data protection. In 2006 Berkeley Data released the Mozy Online Backup service to home users; and in 2007, Berkeley Data released MozyPro to businesses and resellers. Today the company has more than 180,000 total customers worldwide. Founded in 2005, Berkeley Data Systems is funded by Novell co-founder Drew Major, Tim Draper of Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; and Wasatch Ventures. For information, visit www.berkeleydata.com

* a processing and shipping fee may be applied

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Public Relations Manager; Berkeley Data Systems - Mozy & MozyPro; devin@berkeleydata.com; mobile: 801-722-8187

Berkeley Data Systems Announces MozyPro

More than 2,500 remote backup business customers in 90 days

SALT LAKE CITY — Tuesday, April 3, 2007 — Berkeley Data Systems today announced the general availability of the MozyPro remote backup solution, and its initial customers include more than 2,500 businesses. The new professional remote backup service has the simplicity and ease of use that is synonymous with Berkeley Data's consumer online backup service, Mozy; but MozyPro has the enterprise features, power, support and scalability that businesses demand.

"We've changed the economics and usability of enterprise backup with our proprietary software technology," said Josh Coates, founder and CEO of Berkeley Data Systems. "We quietly opened MozyPro for business in December; and in just the last three months, we've had more than 2,500 businesses sign up for the service."

Until now, businesses have had no other option except to use local backup methods including tape, disk, DVD or external hard drives; and traditional enterprise class disaster recovery solutions are expensive and complex. Today, more businesses are looking for a secure off-site backup solution because of government regulations, such as HIPAA.

Berkeley Data meets a pressing market need with MozyPro, a remote backup solution with easy to use enterprise quality features at dramatically reduced prices. The service provides a multi-tenant administrative console that includes reporting and configuration tools to simplify deployment and centralize management. Bandwidth throttling and near continuous data protection allow backups to take place quietly in the background. Military grade encryption ensures the data is protected before it's sent to Berkeley Data's world class data center. Many other remote backup solutions are 10 times more expensive than MozyPro.

Berkeley Data is the leader in simple and safe remote backup for enterprises, businesses, resellers and consumers. The company today has more than 170,000 customers backed up to its petabyte storage cluster. Resellers and service providers may contact Berkeley Data directly for information on its reseller and business development opportunities.

About Berkeley Data Systems

Berkeley Data Systems is an emerging software technology company that specializes in data protection. In 2006 Berkeley Data released the Mozy Online Backup service to home users; and in 2007, Berkeley Data released MozyPro to businesses and resellers. Today the company has more than 170,000 total customers worldwide. Founded in 2005, Berkeley Data Systems is funded by Novell co-founder Drew Major, Tim Draper of Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; and Wasatch Ventures. For information, visit www.berkeleydata.com.

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Public Relations Manager; Berkeley Data Systems - Mozy & MozyPro; devin@berkeleydata.com; mobile: 801-722-8187

Berkeley Data Systems releases Mozy 1.8 with Vista Support

Mozy passes 150,000 customer milestone

SALT LAKE CITY — Wednesday, January 31, 2007 — Berkeley Data Systems announced today the release of Mozy 1.8, which supports Windows Vista. With more than 150,000 subscribers, Mozy is the first online backup provider to support Microsoft's new operating system. In addition, Berkeley Data today announced the availability of its Mozy Unlimited backup service at established retailers, including OfficeDepot, CompUSA, Frys and Microcenter.

"With the release of 1.8, Mozy Online Backup is now even easier to use, yet it retains the flexibility that power users demand," said Josh Coates, founder and CEO of Berkeley Data Systems. "With Mozy, we're providing a service that is simple, automatic and secure."

Berkeley Data offers Mozy free, which provides 2 GB of automatic online backup for free, and Mozy Unlimited, which provides unlimited online backup for just $4.95 a month. Both versions include standard features such as incremental backups, block level differential backups, 30-day file version archives, large file support, private key encryption, custom backup scheduling, continuous backup options, bandwidth throttling, Microsoft Outlook file detection and backup, unlimited restores within Windows and unlimited restores from the Mozy website. Mozy also provides an option for next-day DVD restores via FedEx.

In the last 60 days, Mozy has welcomed more than 50,000 new customers and added more than 600 million files to its clustered petabyte storage system.

About Berkeley Data Systems

Berkeley Data Systems is an emerging software technology company that specializes in data protection. In 2006 Berkeley Data released the Mozy Online Backup service to home users and has since grown to more than 150,000 subscribers. Founded in 2005, Berkeley Data Systems is funded by Novell co-founder Drew Major, Tim Draper of Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; and Wasatch Ventures. For information, visit www.mozy.com.

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Manager of Public Relations; Berkeley Data Systems - Mozy; devin@mozy.com; cell: 801-722-8187

Berkeley Data Systems Launches Mozy Unlimited Backup

Mozy offers consumers unlimited backup capacity with unlimited restores for $4.95 a month
Mozy passes 100,000 customer milestone

SALT LAKE CITY — Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006 — Berkeley Data Systems, creators of Mozy online backup (www.mozy.com), today announced the release of Mozy Unlimited Backup. For $4.95 a month, users may now back up unlimited amounts of data and have access to an unlimited number of restores. Users may choose month-to-month or annual plans, and Mozy will continue to offer consumers 2 GB of automatic online backup for free.

"Since announcing our beta in April, we've grown to more than 100,000 users." said Josh Coates, founder and CEO of Berkeley Data Systems. "The goal of Mozy is to be super simple for mainstream users but also offer power users advanced functionality. Mozy has always been free, automatic, and secure; and now for $4.95 a month, it's unlimited."

Mozy Unlimited Backup also includes a major overhaul to its previous restore process. Users can now conduct unlimited restores within Windows Explorer simply by right-clicking on a file or folder. Users on the road can access and restore their data via the Mozy website.

Mozy now also offers consumers the option to order a copy of their data on DVD, shipped next-day air via FedEx. Other important features include private key encryption, custom backup scheduling, continuous backup options, bandwidth throttling, block level incremental backups, 30-day file version archives, support for files larger than 2 GB, single instance storage and automatic Microsoft Outlook file detection and backup.

David Guggenheim of Washington D.C. was concerned about the security of his daughter's documents and pictures that were stored on her personal laptop. He had reminded her time and again about the importance of regular backups. One day when she called home from school in Montreal, Canada to tell him her laptop had been stolen.

"I was just grateful my daughter had been regularly backing up her computer documents," Guggenheim said. "Our family travels extensively, and I travel frequently overseas. Since Mozy works from anywhere we can connect to the Internet, I can back up automatically just about anywhere in the world."

Berkeley Data Systems has conducted more than 2.5 million backups in the past month alone. Currently, it has more than 450 million files stored in its high security center. Mozy is the only online backup solution in the world that offers both 2 GB for free and unlimited backup capacity for $4.95 a month.

About Berkeley Data Systems

Berkeley Data Systems (www.mozy.com), creators of Mozy online backup, is a technology company based in Utah that specializes in large scale, parallel storage systems and software. Founded in 2005, Berkeley Data Systems is funded by Wasatch Ventures, Tim Draper of Draper Associates and Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; and Novell co-founder Drew Major.

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Manager of Public Relations; 801-722-8187; devin@mozy.com

Josh Coates of Berkeley Data Systems Addresses the Issue: "Can Google Be Stopped?"

Founder and CEO presents with Microsoft and Google at Telecosm Conference Panel

SALT LAKE CITY — October 3, 2006 — Josh Coates, founder and CEO of Berkeley Data Systems (www.mozy.com), will speak with Microsoft and Google representatives at the 2006 Gilder/Forbes Telecosm conference in Lake Tahoe Thursday, Oct.5 regarding the topic, "Storewidth Cyberplexes: Can Google Be Stopped?" The session will be moderated by George Gilder and aims to answer the question, "Are massively parallel, shared-memory computer farms destined to rule the Net?"

"Google is the clear leader in search innovation, but I think the field is open when it comes to mass Internet storage systems," Coates said. "At Berkeley Data Systems, we're solely focused on the petabyte storage problem and have innovated beyond simple mirror-based systems."

A technologist whose entire career has been dedicated to building large scale storage systems, Coates is an expert in petabyte storage technology. Soon after graduation from the University of California, Berkeley, Coates founded Scale8 in 1999, which became the world's largest online storage system at the time. Later he assisted Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive in its mission to archive all human knowledge in building out their petabyte data center. In 2005, he founded Berkeley Data Systems and in April 2006 disrupted the backup industry by launching Mozy — the first free, automatic and secure remote backup service in the world.

"Josh Coates is a storage entrepreneur and creator of a unique cure for conventional accessibility and storage management headaches," said Gilder. "We have invited him to join us at Telecosm 2006 to share his ideas on the growing storage clustering and petabyte technology challenge."

Celebrating its 10th year, Gilder/Forbes Telecosm 2006 will celebrate the heroic and triumphant ascent of technology and the entrepreneurial singularities of the past ten years, and it will attempt to envisage the crucial telecosmic breakthroughs of the next decade to come.

About Berkeley Data Systems

Berkeley Data Systems (www.mozy.com), the creators of Mozy, is a technology company based in Utah that specializes in large scale, parallel storage systems and software. Founded in 2005, Berkeley Data Systems is funded by Wasatch Ventures, Tim Draper of Draper Associates and Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; and Novell co-founder Drew Major.

About Gilder/Forbes Telecosm 2006, October 4 — 6, the Resort at Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe:

For a decade, the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference ‐ hosted annually by George Gilder and Steve Forbes ‐ has been recognized as one of the most prestigious venues in the world for information on breakthrough technologies,forward-thinking companies and investment strategies. It is an exclusive gathering of engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, public policy decision makers, and the top thought leaders and business executives from the world's leading technology and communications companies.

In addition to JOSH COATES, the list of confirmed Telecosm 2006 participants includes: GORDON BELL, Senior Researcher, Microsoft; Forbes Editor in Chief, STEVE FORBES; Ask.com Founder, APOSTOLOS GERASOULIS; PETER HUBER, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; ANDY KESSLER, Author of Wall St. Meat, Running Money, The End of Medicine; Stanford Law Professor, LAWRENCE LESSIG; CalTech's CARVER MEAD; MICHAEL MILKEN, Chairman, Milken Institute; Chairman, FasterCures; ROBERT MUNDELL, Economics Nobel Laureate and International Economist; Intel CTO JUSTIN RATTNER and Global Economist JOHN RUTLEDGE.

For more information and registration details for Gilder/Forbes Telecosm 2006, see: http://www.TelecosmConference.com.

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Manager of Public Relations; 801-722-8187; devin@mozy.com

BERKELEY DATA SYSTEMS LAUNCHES MOZY.COM, THE WORLD'S FIRST FREE, SECURE REMOTE BACKUP SERVICE

Broadband Users Can Protect Critical Data Easily and Securely Over the Internet

APRIL 4, 2006 — Salt Lake City — Berkeley Data Systems launches free, secure remote backup at Mozy.com, an automatic remote backup service for any PC in any home or office. Users can access their encrypted data from any computer in the world with Internet access. Mozy offers a free alternative to external hard drives, expensive subscription services, or the complications involved with burning CDs or DVDs to the over 65 million home broadband users in the US*. Mozy software and two gigabytes (GB) of backup capacity are immediately available at www.mozy.com. Mozy software is simple to install, configure and contains no adware or spyware.

"At some point, everyone goes through the heartache of data loss — either through a hard drive crash, an accidental deletion, a theft, a flood or a fire. The obvious solution is automatic remote backup. The problem is that backup is complex and expensive. We wanted to make remote backup simple and free, so we built Mozy," explains Josh Coates, founder of Berkeley Data Systems. "Mozy is designed to provide truly automated, secure backup to users without requiring training, investment, or regimented routines. Mozy is simple, secure and free — plus it allows users to encrypt data with their own private key, which means it's Dick Cheney proof."

Secure, Automatic Remote Backup

Mozy has a number of qualities that make it superior to alternative backup methods:

Simple: Mozy can be set to automatically back up photos, email, contacts, financial records, and office documents. Users simply need to check the box, and Mozy figures out what needs to be backed up. Advanced settings are also available to users to customize backup sets by file type, size or location. Mozy also provides full support for email, including Microsoft Outlook files, even if the files are open and in use. Backups can be scheduled during off hours, or set to run automatically in the background throughout the day. These features allow users to set it and forget it.
Scalable: Berkeley Data Systems has developed proprietary software that allows Mozy to handle millions of users and securely store thousands of terabytes of data. The data is stored in racks of commodity hardware running specialized software capable of storing and retrieving billions of encrypted files across thousands of disks.
Private and Secure: Users can opt to have their data automatically encrypted with their own private 448-bit symmetric key on their PC before transferring them to the Mozy servers. The data is encoded by 448-bit Blowfish encryption and then transferred to Berkeley Data Systems' data centers using 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. The full Berkeley Data Systems privacy policy is available for review at www.mozy.com/mozy/privacy.
Economical: Mozy is provided free-of-charge to consumers thanks to sponsored newsletters to users once a week. Users who wish to opt out of the sponsored newsletter can upgrade to Mozy Premium, which for a limited time is offered for just $19.95 for a year of service (that's less than $2 per month), and comes with 5 GB of backup capacity. This price is about 10 times less than traditional online backup companies.

About Berkeley Data Systems

Berkeley Data Systems is an innovative technology development company founded in 2005 that specializes in large scale, parallel storage systems and software. Berkeley Data Systems' flagship offering is Mozy.com, which provides free, secure and scalable remote backup solutions to small businesses and online backup for consumers. Berkeley Data Systems is venture funded by Wasatch Partners, Tim Draper and Novell co-founder Drew Major. For information, please visit www.mozy.com or call (801) 756-2331.

*Pew Internet Project, 2005

Press Contact:: Devin Knighton; Manager of Public Relations; 801-722-8187; devin@mozy.com