Code 42 Software Inc., developers of cloud-based endpoint backup solutions for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, today announced at Cloud Expo West 2012 expanded capabilities for its entire family of CrashPlan endpoint backup solutions. This new version of CrashPlan expands the company’s recognized dedication to ease-of-use by both end users and data backup administrators, and provides powerful new enterprise functionality for managing private clouds.

“Code 42 is committed to giving enterprise administrators the private cloud management capabilities they demand,” said Matthew Dornquast, chief executive officer, Code 42 Software. “Our new functionalities make our solution unique and give admins what we believe is the best private cloud management solution on the market today. In addition, a key differentiator of all our CrashPlan offerings is our ability to support a variety of platforms – Mac or Windows, Linux or Solaris. We give users the powerful, trusted backup solutions they need, on the platforms they want to use; and Windows 8 upgraders will be happy to know that CrashPlan is already fully compatible.”

Available today are a variety of additional capabilities for Code 42’s enterprise solution CrashPlan PROe which extend the solution’s ease-of-use for administrators, such as:

• Single-point upgrades of private clouds – With this new version
  comes automatic upgrade functionality for storage servers, which makes
  managing private clouds easier and less time-consuming. Once all
  servers are individually upgraded to the current version,
  administrators can upgrade their entire private cloud with a
  single-point upgrade for future releases.
• Support for Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) –
  This version of the SAML
  OASIS
  standard for exchanging authentication
  and authorization
  data between security
  domains enables web-based authentication and authorization
  scenarios including single
  sign-on (SSO). Organizations utilizing SAML 2.0-based SSO
  technologies (such as Shibboleth) can now integrate CrashPlan PROe
  with those systems, which simplifies the authentication process by
  delegating all authorization to the organization’s identity provider.

CrashPlan PROe is lauded by global organizations such as Google, Adobe, Netflix, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com for its reliability, performance and invisible nature. In addition to its new capabilities, PROe gives the enterprise:

• Continuous, silent backup – Works quietly, continuously in the
  background to unobtrusively protect data according to admin or user
  settings.
• Self-service restore – When a restore is required, users can
  initiate it themselves – with only a few clicks – and without needing
  IT intervention.
• End-to-end security – Encrypts data on the device and again
  during transit, and keeps it encrypted during data storage.
• Flexible data storage options – Offers both public and private
  cloud data storage across multiple physical locations via a hybrid
  architecture.
• Superb performance – Innovative compression and multi-threading
  technologies provide superior performance; a byte-level differential
  only transmits and stores new information.
• Dynamic data balancing – Provides optimum use of available
  storage and bandwidth within and between servers and data centers.
• Easy monitoring and administration – Gives admins a real-time
  view of the entire system and an easy way to control every aspect of
  the backups – whether for 200 users or two million – via an
  intuitive admin dashboard and console.
• Easy, trusted access to data while on-the-go – Gives users
  secure access to all their data from anywhere via mobile apps for
  Apple iOS, Android or Windows Phone; apps feature one-touch update and
  the same industry-leading security as the PROe desktop applications.
• Customizable backup sets – Provides an easy way to back up
  different groups of files and folders on different schedules and/or to
  different destinations.