For Canadian users of the Mozy.com, the company’s most recent newsletter is downright embarrassing. Mozy founder Josh Coates went to Montreal recently only to discover that:
“the streets were on fire and full of police and rioting citizens because I guess they won an O-KAY (that’s hockey) game. My flight got in late that night and the taxi driver had to change his routes because the streets were blocked off by police.”
Welcome to Canada and the weird tradition in Montreal where people celebrate playoffs victories by the Montreal Canadiens by rioting and burning cars. This doesn’t happen in Toronto. Of course, the Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t made the playoffs in three years or won the Stanley Cup in 41 years.
Next time you’re in Canada, Josh, swing by Toronto. Bad sports teams but the citizens are well behaved!
I’m surprised he didn’t draw a parallel between the violent elation of those riots and the feeling a customer of Montreal-based Bell Canada must have at seeing Mozy’s offering. Bell charges $5-6 per 5GB chunk of storage in the Bell Personal Vault. Mozy charges $5 for an unlimited amount of data.
I’ve been a Mozy customer for about a year now, since they first announced their Mac client beta. I have 106GB of data on their servers, protected with 448-bit Blowfish encryption with key that I can set. I have it pre-configured to save my user entire OSX user folder, start backup daily at 1:30 in the morning, and I never think about it again. It is an awesome service, the price point makes it a no-brainer. Plus, with EMC – one of the largest info storage companies in the world – now owning them, they’re no longer a potentially-unstable startup, and can easily make credibility claims on par with any service provider.