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When Damian Zikakis' laptop computer was stolen last May, he figured that was the last he would see of it. A thief had broken into the Birmingham [Mich.] offices of his employer, Boyden Executive Search. Zikakis promptly bought a new computer. He had subscribed to an automated computer backup service called Mozy, and he reconnected via his new laptop. That's when the Mozy service, which costs $5 per month for individuals, really paid off.

Michael Dell has grown tired of discussing his company's reinvention.

He mocks suggestions that the company he founded is taking more risks than in the past and parries questions about how Dell's culture had changed.

"It's O.K. if everyone doesn't understand what we're doing," Dell said during an interview at Dell headquarters here, just north of Austin.

EMC on Monday announced its first cloud-infrastructure offering. Dubbed EMC Atmos, the offering is a multi-petabyte information-management solution that aims to help customers automatically manage and optimize the distribution of rich, unstructured information across global, cloud-storage environments.

EMC has introduced new disk-based backup and data-recovery offerings for enterprises facing an ever-expanding digital information glut. The range of new low-power disk-drive offerings will help enterprises improve their data-center operations by deploying EMC's latest data deduplication, drive spin-down, and power-saving technologies, said Mark Sorenson, senior vice president of EMC's Information Management Software Group.

Mac users looking for off-site backup can get it from EMC, which announced Thursday that its MozyHome for Mac is now available. EMC described it as "the industry's first unlimited online backup service" for Macs.

EMC said other versions of Mozy, including enterprise PCs, have about 700,000 users worldwide and about 6.2 billion files backed up.

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