Code42 Opened Second European Data Center in Amsterdam

Code42 Software, Inc., in endpoint data protection and management for business and enterprise, announced several milestones for its growing international operations.

To support customers facing Europe’s increased regulatory climate for data privacy, the company has opened a second European data center in Amsterdam, and has appointed industry veterans Andy Hardy and Carsten Graf to oversee new London and Munich offices, respectively.

Code42’s growth in Europe reflects its broader overall corporate growth worldwide. In the past year, the company grew its headcount to more than 430 employees and increased its global customer base by more than 50% year-over-year for a second consecutive year. Currently, more than 36,000 business customers worldwide rely on the Code42 EDGE Platform – the platform that powers the company’s CrashPlan enterprise endpoint backup and SharePlan enterprise file sync and share. In Europe alone, the company added enterprise accounts including British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and The Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Research Limited.

“The European market for data privacy and endpoint data protection is ripe for our solutions,” said Andy Hardy, EMEA MD, Code42. “With two data centers serving Europe, we uniquely support European companies and global entities doing business here that are required to comply with European data privacy regulations. And because we encrypt data before it leaves the device, and allow customers to keep their encryption keys on-premises no matter where data is stored, we alleviate European customer security concerns regarding compliance with the US PATRIOT Act.“

Code42 selected IT infrastructure provider EvoSwitch, provider of secure cloud- and carrier-neutral data center services, to power its Amsterdam-based data center. The data center supports Code42’s ability to meet the data security obligations of enterprises required to physically store corporate data in Europe.

“European Union data privacy regulations-and in particular, those in Germany, Austria and Switzerland-are among the strictest in the world,” said Carsten Graf, DACH MD, Code42. “Code42 is the global leader in delivering on-premises backup and sync/share solutions that address the most stringent endpoint data security requirements. Our approach to data security tightly aligns with the needs of highly regulated environments.“

This announcement marks the latest in a series of milestones for Code42, including investment into its channel partner program via a partnership with the Jisc file sync and share purchasing system for UK education and research, and global expansion of its Summit Partner Program, which now boasts a roster of more than 900 channel partners worldwide.