EDS touts mobile-data disaster recovery
Published: 08 Jul 2003 08:06 BST
Hoping to cash in on a growing disaster-recovery market, Electronic Data Systems on Monday launched a service to protect data held on desktop computers, laptops and personal digital assistants.
The company said its new service, Mobile Information Protection, allows companies to back up data on mobile devices automatically, as well as to restore lost or damaged information.
"As employee productivity becomes even more dependent on mobile computing platforms, corporate information assets are at greater risk of loss or theft," Sandi Scullen, global leader of EDS' Intelligent Storage Services unit, said in a statement. EDS is based in Plano, Texas.
Disaster recovery is one of the brighter fields in a gloomy technology-spending environment. The market research firm IDC said in a report last year that the backup recovery services market would grow from $3bn (£1.82bn) in 2001 to $4.2bn in 2006, for an annual growth rate of 6.9 percent.
EDS' new offering is an extension of its data backup services for corporate mainframe or server computers. EDS is basing the Mobile Information Protection product on Connected Corporation's DataProtector software.
The new service costs $9 to $12 per user, per month, along with a one-time installation fee ranging from about $25,000 to $32,000.
Other companies offering disaster recovery services include Hewlett-Packard, IBM and SunGard.
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