Case Study: American Institute of Biological Sciences achieves reliable, easy cloud backups and centralized management with Backblaze

How a nationally distributed Biology company keeps every employee safe and secure with reliable backup

The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a non-profit scientific association with a dispersed, largely remote staff and an all-Mac endpoint environment. AIBS needed a simple, reliable way to protect staff computers and ensure data access from anywhere; IT Director Joel Wagener chose Backblaze and implemented Backblaze for Business Cloud Backup to meet that need.

Backblaze deployed its Business solution (including Groups for centralized billing and oversight) as the default on all AIBS endpoints, letting users self-restore while IT retains management and archives for departing staff. The result: Backblaze provides reliable restores (including multiple prior versions), immediate access to data on loaner machines, centralized license/billing control, lightweight clients, and cost-effective protection (from $5/month per computer), improving recovery speed, reducing downtime, and giving the organization greater peace of mind.

American Institute of Biological Sciences

Joel Wagener

Director of IT