China Telecom’s Shanghai branch and Decho, a subsidiary of EMC, have formed a strategic partnership to deliver cloud-based services in China. The partnership offers the eYun service, based on Decho’s Mozy online backup service, the new eYun service provides secure online backup to internet users in China.
By bringing together China Telecom’s Shanghai branch and Decho’s Mozy service, the joint offer targets the vast number of internet users in China. eYun online backup offers customers offsite protection of their information from computer crashes, data corruption, viruses, human error and disasters.
eYun is based on Decho’s Mozy online backup service, which reportedly serves over 1 million users around the world. The companies have completed a trial with around 15,000 users and are now offering the service.
Qian Ming Hai, general manager of internet division at China Telecom, Shanghai Branch, said: “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.
eYun is a major step for Shanghai Telecom to evolve from a telecom infrastructure provider to an end-to-end information service provider.”
