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First Published: Jan 15, 2014
Last Updated: June 20, 2016
Announcement Aug 21, 2017 |
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as captured by BTC
6/20/2016 |
Products
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Personal
Use |
FREE |
FAMILY |
INDIVIDUAL |
BUSINESS |
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Official
Name |
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CRASHPLAN+ |
CRASHPLANPRO |
CRASHPLANPROe |
Business Use |
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Home |
Business |
Enterprise |
Overview
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Price |
$0 |
$14 ($12.50) |
$6 ($5)* |
$10/computer |
$ = custom |
# of computers |
n/a |
2~4** |
up to 10x* |
up to 200x |
100~100,000+ |
Clients: Mac, Windows, Linux |
y |
y |
y |
y |
y |
User Online Portal |
- |
y |
y |
y |
y |
Destinations
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"CrashPlan Central" |
- |
y |
y |
y |
y |
External Hard Drive |
y |
y |
y |
y |
y |
"Private Cloud" |
- |
- |
- |
- |
y |
"Friends" |
y |
y |
y |
y |
- |
Administrative
Features
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Real-time dashboard / reporting |
n/a |
- |
- |
y |
y |
Manage other users |
n/a |
- |
- |
y |
y |
Individual login accounts |
n/a |
- |
- |
y |
y |
Group users (ACL/policies) |
n/a |
- |
- |
- |
y |
Custom installers (.MSI) |
n/a |
- |
- |
- |
y |
Master / secondary server |
n/a |
- |
- |
- |
y |
REST API |
n/a |
- |
- |
- |
y |
Versioning/Retention |
n/a |
90 days?*** |
unlimited |
Archiving (keep inactive sel.) |
n/a |
- |
- |
- |
full control |
* fee per-month per-computer, hence 10 x $6 = $60
** multiple computers but single login account with full access (no
isolation possible)
*** supposedly eliminated, as a feature upgrade. Used to be the
distinction between Standard and Premium
Summary of Options
- 14+ marketing names, some no longer actively used
- 9 SKU# (current specific plans to sign up for)
- 7 distinctive plans (product name)
- 5 feature levels bundling
- 2 tiers of infrastructure
- consumer, using 4.x software
- commercial, using 5.x software
Product Naming Demystified
- Standard + Premium >>> Individual >>> Crashplan+ >>> CrashPlan for Home
- Business >>> CrashPlan PRO
- CrashPlan PRO <<< is really multiple Home with master dashboard & reporting
- Enterprise >>> CrashPlan PROe >>> Code42 CrashPlan (interesting latest trend)
- Free essentially a 30-day trial of Home +
upgrade nags, w/ a submitted copy beyond your control
Competitors
- Carbonite, Backblaze, Mozy, IDrive, SOS
- Zetta, LiveVault, CommVault, EMC, Veritas, Azure, IBM, Rubrik, Glacier
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