CrashPlan, a provider of advanced backup, archiving, recovery, and compliance solutions, has announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Microsoft, focusing on strengthening Microsoft 365 data resilience for enterprises through enhanced co-marketing, co-selling, and co-development initiatives.
CrashPlan’s platform, which is built entirely on Microsoft Azure and deeply integrates with Microsoft 365 to protect data across Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, aims to offer a unified, resilient, and future-proof experience for IT teams. The solution is available in the Microsoft Marketplace, is co-sell eligible, and contributes to customers’ Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). Unlike traditional backup tools that adapt older architectures for the cloud, CrashPlan was designed specifically for modern, cloud-scale environments, extending its protection to Google Workspace, endpoints, and servers in addition to Microsoft 365.
As part of this expanded collaboration, CrashPlan is introducing Microsoft 365 Archiving capabilities within its Backup and Recovery Platform. Specifically, its new SharePoint Archiving feature automatically moves inactive data to secondary storage while maintaining user access via file stubs. This approach, combined with deduplication, compression, and incremental backup, is designed to help organizations manage rapidly growing data volumes in Microsoft 365 environments by reducing storage expenses and addressing compliance challenges, all while ensuring full recoverability.
Looking ahead, CrashPlan and Microsoft are exploring the use of AI-search to gain insights from backup data, addressing database scalability issues for enterprises. A proof of concept for this initiative, alongside the extended Microsoft 365 Archiving capability, will be showcased at Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco from November 18–21. During a joint speaking session at the event, titled “Optimize Backup Costs with Azure & Zero-cost OneDrive Storage,” CrashPlan and Microsoft will detail strategies for reducing storage costs, accelerating recovery, and simplifying data resilience within Microsoft 365 environments.
Randy De Meno, VP of Business Development and Microsoft Practice at CrashPlan, commented on the collaboration, stating, “CrashPlan’s mission has always been to make data protection simple, secure, and cost-effective. Deepening our collaboration with Microsoft allows us to bring that vision to even more organizations, combining innovation, scale, and trusted collaboration to help customers achieve true data resilience.” CrashPlan provides cyber resilience and data protection through a unified platform, offering secure and scalable backup and recovery for servers, endpoints, and SaaS applications to safeguard against threats like accidental deletion, ransomware, and system failure.
