If you're keeping track of the changes at
Code 42, make sure to backup the files, because the updates are coming quickly.
Advancements in the past three months alone include the release of the
company's third major product, the acquisition of mobile-app developer
Recursive Awesome, and a 10,000-square-foot expansion of its headquarters in near-Northeast Minneapolis.
With the growth and increasing popularity of its backup software
Crashplan, the firm is adding employees weekly, says co-founder and CEO
Matthew Dornquast.
The addition of Recursive Awesome brings that company's 15 engineers
into the fold, and Code 42 has a North American core team of around 75
people. The company has been doubling in size, says Dornquast; it ended
last year at around 50 or 60 and should end the year at 100, he says.
With the employee growth and acquisition, Code 42 has also doubled its
physical space as well at its headquarters at 1 Main Street along the
Mississippi River opposite Downtown Minneapolis. Code 42 moved to the
10,000- square-foot space about a year and a half ago, and added another
10,000 square feet earlier this year, with room to grow again, if
necessary.
Like Code 42 itself, Recursive Awesome has moved from Downtown proper to
the new offices. Dornquast said the two companies have "familial
business DNA" in a press release last week about the acquisition.
Code 42 followed that news this week with the release this week of its
third major product, a small-business focused backup solution in between
the tiers of its original home/consumer and large-enterprise products.
"Several years in the making," according to Dornquast, the mid-tier
product will take the Crashplan PRO name of the existing larger-company
product, which will be repositioned with the more-apt name of
Crashplan-PRO-E.
The new product will support companies with up to 200 computers, and it will
make use of Code 42's existing cloud backup capabilities.
Dornquast notes that Code 42's backup capabilities are
multi-destination. "Even in the � 0�200 product, you'll be able to do
direct to attached storage, onsite to other computers, and then direct
to our cloud."
The cloud option works well for small businesses with fewer computers,
he notes. "The user's story is being able to rapidly deploy your
computers to the cloud; you can turn on backup through your whole
company in less than 15 minutes," he says.
That user-friendly experience--"easy on-ramps,
easy-to-understand"--belies the reach and power of the company's
product. "The same engine
that's powering this 0�200 product is running our cloud, for everybody,"
he says. "In real time, we're monitoring, managing, maintaining these
data streams for everyone around the world."
"Everyone" refers to the millions of desktops and laptops Code 42 backs
up globally, and the addition of Recursive Awesome will open Code 42 to
the mobile market--devices that are emerging as endpoint data
destinations--as well, says Dornquast.
"The ability to create mission-critical information on mobile devices is
a relatively new thing," Dornquast says. He expects to release products
in that vein late this year or in the first quarter of next year.
Source: Matthew Dornquast, Code 42
Writer: Jeremy Stratton