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EMC forms Decho Corporation
EMC has established Decho
Corporation (www.decho.com), a new Decho’s initial service offering is the
company focused on helping people Mozy online backup service, the
protect, manage and enrich the ever- leading online backup service for both
growing quantity of personal digital consumers and businesses. With over
information in their lives, also known 900,000 users and over 25,000
as an individual’s “digital echo.” Decho business customers, Mozy safeguards
will be a combination of two formerly over 10 petabytes (over ten million
separate EMC businesses – Mozy, Inc. and Chief Financial Officer. “By gigabytes) of customer information at
and Pi Corp. bringing Mozy and Pi together to form its datacentres around the world. Mozy
Decho as a new subsidiary, we are online back up offers the most
The personal information once stored creating a focused organisation that comprehensive online backup solution
in albums, boxes and filing cabinets — can deliver on the promise of cloud- on the market, and offers simple,
such as financial records, personal based personal information automatic and secure online backup
documents, family photos and videos, management and can help individuals for both consumers and businesses,
portfolios of professional work, and everywhere preserve, manage and with support for laptops, desktops and
correspondence — comprises each enrich the information most important servers running either Mac OS X or
person’s digital echo. This information to them.” Windows.
is increasingly scattered across
different computers, digital devices
and web sites. The quantity of personal
Downtime down
transaction is authorized or declined
digital information produced every year as the card holder’s situation and
around the world is now measured in
to less than 15
credit terms dictate. These requests
the hundreds of billions of gigabytes come in every second of every day of
and is expected to continue to grow
minutes a year
the year. If they can not be authorized,
annually by almost 60 percent, then they may fail unless another form
according to analysts. Moreover, the of payment is possible. An
lifespan of this information is Multicarta Ltd., a Russian credit card authorization failure due to a technical
beginning to be measured in decades, authorization processor, has fault can cause the loss of money by
and it is ever more valuable and often implemented SteelEye LifeKeeper for the retailer, disappointment and
irreplaceable. Linux to ensure that downtime of its annoyance to the customer and a
transaction processing system is lessening of respect for the card issuer
The shift of personal information from limited to less than fifteen minutes per and bank.
physical to digital has not yet been year.
accompanied by a parallel shift in the The key IT elements at Multicarta’s
way this information is organised and Multicarta authorizes transactions by processing centre are the server and
preserved in digital form. Decho will holders of cards issued by Visa storage hardware and the database of
help individuals take full control of International, MasterCard credit card holders and their details.
their digital echo through a set of International, Diners Club Two HP ProLiant DL580 G3 servers
cloud-based services that will enable International and American Express. running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
easy and full utilisation, organisation Cardholders are customers of Russian and an IBM Informix database access
and enrichment of important personal banks and financial services an HP EVA 6000 shared storage array.
information. companies. When a cardholder wishes If a server fails or the database
to pay for goods or services with their crashes, then authorization stops.
“There is an immense, untapped card, the retailer sends an Server and database operations are
business opportunity as personal authorization request to the Multicarta protected by SteelEye LifeKeeper for
information management inevitably authorization processing centre. Linux and the LifeKeeper Informix ARK
migrates into the cloud,” said David respectively.
Goulden, EMC Executive Vice President A database lookup ensues and the
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