CrashPlan expands India and UAE operations, strengthens Bengaluru GCC

Cyber-resilience and data-governance company CrashPlan has announced expansion across India and the United Arab Emirates, marking a major step in its global growth strategy. The move includes strengthening its Global Capability Center (GCC) in Bengaluru, which will serve as the company’s central hub for engineering, artificial intelligence, and product innovation for customers around the world.

The announcement coincided with CEO Dan Beer’s first visit to India since taking the helm in April 2025. During his trip, Beer met with several key enterprise customers, including Fractal Analytics and Godrej Industries Group, and held strategic discussions with Etisalat executives in Dubai. These meetings reaffirmed the company’s long-term vision to deepen regional partnerships, accelerate innovation, and expand its footprint across high-growth markets in Asia and the Middle East.

Beer described India as a cornerstone of the company’s global operations. “India is more than a market for us—it’s an innovation engine that will drive extended collaboration across our engineering, AI, and product teams worldwide,” he said. “Our Bengaluru GCC will continue to be central to how we build, innovate, and deliver for our customers. The depth of talent here gives us a powerful advantage as we expand into new workloads, platforms, and AI-driven capabilities.”

CrashPlan’s expansion comes a year after its acquisition of Indian technology firm Parablu, which strengthened its presence in the region and laid the foundation for its Bengaluru operations. Since the acquisition, the company has doubled its employee base in India, positioning the GCC as a critical contributor to CrashPlan’s global research and product development pipeline. The center will play a key role in scaling engineering and support teams to accelerate R&D, inform product design, and enhance testing capabilities. It will also focus on developing AI-powered features that allow customers to interact directly with backed-up data, improving recovery speed and helping enterprises comply with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA).

The Bengaluru hub has also become a focal point for CrashPlan’s partnerships with major Indian enterprises. Fractal Analytics, a global leader in AI and analytics, has expanded its deployment of CrashPlan’s data-protection solutions thirtyfold since 2018, while Godrej Industries Group, one of India’s most diversified conglomerates, now secures thousands of endpoints across its operations using CrashPlan’s platform. These long-standing relationships highlight the company’s role as a trusted provider of data-resilience and compliance solutions to large-scale enterprises operating in complex regulatory environments.

The company’s footprint in the Middle East is also expanding rapidly. Through its collaboration with Etisalat, CrashPlan is scaling commercial operations in Dubai and the wider GCC region. The company plans to strengthen its engagement with enterprise clients, technology partners, and government institutions seeking secure, compliant data-resilience frameworks in an era of rising cyber risk and stricter data-sovereignty requirements.

Beer said the expansion into India and the UAE is part of a broader plan to position CrashPlan as a global leader in secure, AI-driven data protection. “We’re investing in regions that are shaping the future of digital transformation,” he said. “By combining India’s engineering excellence with the UAE’s enterprise momentum, we’re building the foundation for secure, compliant, and resilient data ecosystems.”

With strong growth across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, CrashPlan is targeting continued double-digit revenue expansion while reinvesting in product innovation and customer experience. The company’s Bengaluru and Dubai operations now anchor its strategy to deliver next-generation data-protection technologies tailored to the evolving needs of enterprises worldwide.