Carbonite Revamps Cloud Offerings, Plans Backup Appliance
January 2, 2014
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Charlene OHanlon.
Cloud backup provider Carbonite (CARB) is streamlining its lineup of services offerings to better meet the needs of its solution provider partners and their customers.? The company is doing away with its current five-plan menu of services and is now categorizing its plans into three core areas: Personal, Pro and Server, said David Hauser, senior director at Carbonite.
The move coincides with what the market needs and how the market is purchasing new cloud services, he noted. “What we found out with our current structure is people have different needs—some SOHOs have a personal need for backup, while some just want to do servers,” he said. “These better align with what the market is asking for.”…
The Personal plan mirrors the current Home offering, with plans ranging from $59.99 to $149.99 list price for one PC or Mac. The Pro plans, meanwhile, now target businesses and start at $269.99 per year for as many PCs or Macs as a company needs to back up. Higher-priced offerings in the Pro plan include backup for Windows File Servers and up to 500GB of storage…
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