EMC Corporation has announced it will begin offering MozyEnterprise, an online backup technology, with its EMC Fortress data storage platform. The company acquired Mozy as part of its Berkeley Data Systems buy for $76 million last October.

The backup data will be uploaded via the Internet from servers and desktop and laptop computers, encrypted to prevent unauthorized access, and stored at EMC-operated data centers.

"Anyone with a broadband connection and an Internet browser can provide online backup for their PCs," said Roy Sanford, vice president of marketing for EMC's SaaS business.

EMC was founded in 1979 by Richard (Dick) Egan and Roger Marino as a manufacturer of memory boards.

Our strategy is focused on bringing new software-as-a-service offerings to market," said Tom Heiser, senior VP and general manager of EMC's SaaS Business Unit, in a company statement.

"We've introduced EMC Fortress, a secure, multitenant, scalable SaaS delivery platform providing customers with centralized billing, management, and metering."

MozyEnterprise will cost $5.25 a month per desktop or laptop plus 70 cents per gigabyte protected, and $9.25 a month per Windows Server plus $2.35 a month per gigabyte protected. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) enables users to restore multiple file versions up to 30 days old. The MozyEnterprise service consists of three different Mozy online backup products: MozyHome, MozyPro and MozyEnterprise.

Apparently, Verizon also plans to resell MozyEnterprise to its customers. "We are expanding our solutions from delivering communications applications to IT management applications in a SaaS delivery model," said Nancy Gofus, chief marketing officer and senior VP of Verizon Business, in a statement. "Our expanded relationship with EMC will help us to accelerate our ability to do so."

Mozy, released in April 2006, allowed both Windows and Mac users to back up their data to an off-site server. It was acquired by EMC for $76 million in September 2007.

EMC Corporation's flagship product is the Symmetrix, the foundation of storage networks in many large data centers. The enterprise storage array has seen seven generations, with the first appearing in 1994 and the latest introduced in 2006. Its top end product can manage over two thousand hard drives.