Drobo and Carbonite Partner

Drobo, Inc. and Carbonite Inc. announced a partnership under which the companies will collaborate to provide small businesses an affordable onsite storage and cloud backup solution.

Pursuant to the partnership, Drobo business customers can purchase a 14-month subscription of Carbonite’s new Business or Premier Business cloud backup solution for the price of a 12-month plan. When combined with Drobo’s onsite data protection, the new Carbonite small business offerings (introduced on June 15th) help provide an affordable offsite backup solution for companies with 20 or fewer computers.

"Our customers value easy and affordable data protection," said Tom Buiocchi, CEO of Drobo. "Carbonite adds the easiest and most affordable cloud backup to an overall data protection strategy for small businesses."

Designed for customers who need storage capacity without the complexity and price of legacy storage, Drobo delivers storage solutions for small businesses. Every Drobo is powered by the patented BeyondRAID technology that automates traditional storage challenges such as data protection, capacity expansion, and application performance optimization.

"A comprehensive backup solution includes both onsite and cloud-based elements. As such, Drobo and Carbonite already share a number of customers in common," said David Friend, CEO of Carbonite. "Our market research has indicated that small business customers would augment their existing physical data protection strategy with an automatic, cloud-based solution if it were affordable, so we built Carbonite Business specifically to address those needs."

Carbonite’s small business solutions are tailored to meet the needs of two distinct small business groups – smaller offices with multiple computers and larger offices that also require server backup.

Carbonite Business backups an unlimited number of computers per year for a fee of $229 per year (250GB included). Carbonite Business Premier backs up an unlimited number of computers and servers for just $599 per year (500GB included). Businesses can add supplemental storage as their backup needs grow.

"All businesses are thinking about storage and data protection as a single entity as they increasingly rely on digital information," said Brian Babineau, vice president, Research and Analyst Service, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The partnership between Drobo and Carbonite enables small businesses to affordably keep their most valuable information assets safe without the complexity that is usually associated with traditional storage and backup offerings."