CrashPlan

Recommendations:

CrashPlan seems to be a great tool that prevents catastrophe and yet requires very little of the individual user. My suggestion would be to set up some sort of mandatory set-up window within which everyone in the organization is required to begin using CrashPlan.

Experience:

I am not involved in our IT department, so I don't know what all was involved in selecting CrashPlan. However, I do know that prior to adopting CrashPlan, many - if not most - of the individuals at our organization did not use any sort of regular, reliable backup. I can only assume that quite a bit of data was lost, causing our IT department to look for a backup option that would require the least amount of effort and attention possible for each individual at the organization. I'm not sure what all features CrashPlan has. I know that we have automated backup and disaster recovery (up to three on- or off-site computers per person). I do not a few individuals in my area who have had catastrophic losses of their computers and have regained all of their data with very little trouble.

Pros:

I like the "set it and forget it" nature of CrashPlan. I also appreciate being able to remotely access files away from work, if necessary.

Cons:

I have not experienced any negative myself, but I have been told by others that CrashPlan slowed down their computers when it was set for frequent backups.