Case Study: St. John's School achieves reliable, cost-saving offsite backups with Backblaze

St. John's School - Customer Case Study

St. John's School, led by IT Director Michael LeBlanc, needed a reliable, cost‑effective way to protect the files of 570 K–12 students and staff after discovering their legacy on‑prem Dell/CrashPlan setup was expensive, kept backups onsite, and left roughly half of machines unprotected. They adopted Google Drive for Education for file syncing but still needed a true backup solution, so they evaluated and selected Backblaze (Backblaze for Business/Computer Backup) to meet their performance, cost‑savings, and risk‑management goals.

Backblaze was deployed quickly—LeBlanc used Backblaze’s scripts and pushed the agent through his RMM (initially JAMF, later Meraki)—providing automatic, unobtrusive offsite backups that resolved the prior gap where many machines weren’t backed up. The predictable, affordable pricing (Backblaze for Business pricing as published) and enterprise‑grade security freed time and budget for other projects, improved durability and recovery options, and gave the school confidence to pursue broader cloud initiatives.

St. John's School

Michael LeBlanc

Director of Information Technology