American Bar Association Selects Mozy

Mozy, Inc., an EMC Company, announced an agreement with the American Bar Association to launch a new ABA member program designed to ease the challenges associated with backing up vital information. Through the ABA Member Advantage Program, the ABA is making available to its members special pricing if they choose the Mozy service as their firm’s online backup provider.

"The American Bar Association sets the standards of excellence for the legal community, and we’re honored to be a provider of online backup for their members," said Vance Checketts, chief operating officer of Mozy Inc., an EMC Company. "Mozy understands the needs of legal firms and reliably backs up critical data for thousands of lawyers today."

IT staff at legal firms face many challenges, but case file and message retention — and data protection in general — are amongst the biggest of their headaches. Information loss can threaten a firm’s existence, yet even the biggest investments in on-site backup can’t protect against loss from natural disasters, theft, and user error.

In the past six months, Mozy’s law firm customer base has grown 200 percent. The service is growing in popularity because it automatically protects digital information, including case files, spreadsheets, e-mail and financial documents, from data loss in the event of a hard drive crash, accidental deletion, natural disaster or theft. All files are encrypted first on the user’s machine and then securely transferred to Mozy’s remote data centers via the same encryption methods used for online banking.