SpiderOak Blue Plus offers user account integration with Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and RedHat Directory Server. Directory group membership provides SpiderOak account entitlement. It also offers integrated password management via either LDAP bind or RADIUS (e.g. RSA SecurID).

Users on company-defined LDAP groups are automatically visible inside SpiderOak's web-based management console.

Pricing for SpiderOak's Blue service starts at $400 per terabyte of capacity, regardless of how many users or systems access the data.

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