CrashPlan today announced backup and recovery for Windows and Linux servers and Google Workspace, built for small businesses. This extends CrashPlan’s SMB offering to protect the full range of data their operations depend on. Businesses with fewer than 250 users can trial and purchase the new protection directly online.

SMBs face outsized challenges: IT teams that have to wear many hats, and the same financial, operational, and legal risks that large organizations face – without enterprise-level budgets. Small businesses bear the brunt of ransomware: 96% of ransomware victims are small and midsize businesses (Verizon 2026 DBIR). In extreme cases, a breach can cost a small business more than 7% of annual revenue (Verizon 2026 Breach Impact Study). Unexpected data loss can slow down teams, stall audits, erode customer trust, and expose the business to risk. CrashPlan’s expanded capabilities meet these challenges by providing enterprise-grade protection tailored to SMB budgets and teams.

Recognized as a secure, robust backup and recovery solution for computers, laptops, servers, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, CrashPlan makes data protection easy for SMBs with limited IT resources. Its cloud-based backup protects businesses from unexpected disasters, deletions, or cyberattacks without being slowed down. Additionally, its simple setup gets the business up and running with continuous, automatic backups within minutes.

CrashPlan Windows and Linux Server Backup

Windows and Linux Servers keep the business going. When ransomware, hardware failures, accidental deletions, or outages happen, recovering quickly matters. Protecting that data should not require enterprise complexity or an enterprise budget. CrashPlan takes a different approach, with simple deployment and administration, minimal maintenance and infrastructure overhead, and secure, affordable cloud storage that scales as needed.

Key capabilities include:

Protect data without complexity

• Automatic, continuous backups based on customized and easy-to-set policies
• Simple deployment and administration with minimal maintenance
• Dedicated visibility dashboards to monitor server backup status and activity

Recover quickly when something goes wrong

• Fast, reliable restores with a simple, proven recovery process
• Flexible recovery with granular file-level restores, system files, folders or entire server data
• Immutable, isolated backups for trusted and rapid ransomware recovery

Safeguard the business without breaking the budget

• Secure cloud-based backup designed for SMB budgets
• Affordable, predictable cloud storage that can scale as business data grows
• Deduplication, compression and incremental backups reduce storage requirements and backup transfer volume without data loss

CrashPlan Backup for Google Workspace

Gmail and Google Drive are not immune to accidental deletions, ransomware, sync errors, or user mistakes. Google’s built-in retention and recovery tools are not a complete backup solution, and in fact, Google recommends having a third-party backup and recovery solution in place. CrashPlan for Google Workspace lets SMBs back up and recover their Google Workspace data and, as a result, they can meet compliance requirements, protect against ransomware, and get employees working again quickly after data loss.

Key capabilities include:

Ensure complete data protection

• Backup and recovery for Google Workspace data, including files in Google Drive and emails and attachments in Gmail
• Immutable backups that offer separate, secure copies of critical Gmail and Google Drive data outside the Google Workspace environment.
• Rich backup and recovery capabilities that extend beyond Google’s native 30-day retention, limited versioning, and restricted recovery capabilities

Ease and accelerate the recovery process

• Fast, point-in-time recovery
• Granular or full-site restore options
• Self-service restore with indexed search so employees can search for and recover their own lost files or emails

Make it simple and affordable

• Easy setup and simple, centralized policy management with role-based access control
• Automated, cloud-to-cloud backups that run in the background
• 50 GB of cloud storage per user, which is pooled, to maximize storage capacity usage across users, while deduplication and compression ensure data takes up as little space as possible

CrashPlan’s full suite of products makes it easy to keep critical business data protected – no enterprise-level overhead or costs, just reliable protection that helps SMBs recover quickly when something goes wrong.

CrashPlan Windows and Linux Server Backup and CrashPlan Backup for Google Workspace are generally available now, each with a 14-day free trial. For more information, visit. smb.crashplan.com/free-trial/

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