14 DAY TRIAL // Telecom infrastructure provider China Telecom Co., Ltd Shanghai Branch and Decho Corporation, an EMC Company, have announced today that they reached an agreement for a partnership aimed at delivering cloud-based services to users in the country. At first the team will provide the eYun service, which is based on Decho’s Mozy online backup service and which brings simple, automatic and secure online backup to any Internet user in the country. Moreover, the duo also announced that other services are also expected to become available in the future, courtesy of their new partnership.
eYun (the word is the Chinese name for e-Cloud), comes as a cloud-based service that is operated in China. The solution combines the offering of China Telecom Co., Ltd Shanghai Branch and Decho’s Mozy service and can prove a great option for a wide range of Internet users in the country. Customers will get protection for their critical information in cases that include computer crashes, data corruption, viruses, human error and disasters.
“China Telecom Co., Ltd Shanghai Branch is glad to team up with EMC’s Decho to offer the eYun service. It is a joint effort from two market leaders with Shanghai Telecom the leader in Shanghai’s broadband market and Mozy the leader in online backup,” said Dr. Qian Ming Hai, general manager of the Internet Division of China Telecom, Shanghai Branch. “eYun is a major step for Shanghai Telecom to evolve from a telecom infrastructure provider to an end-to-end information service provider.”
Decho’s Mozy online backup service, which is at the base of eYun, already serves a number of more than 1 million users in the world. The two companies announced that they already tested the solution and that their trials were successful with around 15,000 users. Since the service will soon become available for a wide range of users, the two companies also announced they planned on supporting the solution so as to become a successful service in China.
“China is now the largest Internet market in the world,” said Harel Kodesh, CEO of Decho Corp. “We’re delighted to partner with China Telecom, the largest broadband provider in China, to deliver a world-class online backup service to the Chinese market through eYun.” The companies are also laying the foundation for additional “personal cloud” services to be delivered in the future for both consumers and business customers.