Case Study: Grimsby Institute achieves secure Microsoft 365 migration and GDPR‑compliant email protection with Barracuda Networks

Higher education provider graduates to safe and secure Microsoft 365 migration with email protection and compliant backup

Grimsby Institute, part of the TEC Partnership (1,200 staff and 16,000 students), needed to migrate safely and economically to Microsoft 365 while protecting highly sensitive data during a planned merger, meeting GDPR retention rules (including scenarios requiring 25 years of backups), avoiding downtime, and reducing pressure on its IT team.

They deployed Barracuda Essentials (email protection, archiving and backup) alongside Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Cloud Archiving, Message Archiver and CloudGen Firewall, delivering ransomware and phishing protection, compliant long-term retention and fast recovery. The solution now protects 17,200 users, cut junk and threat alerts, freed IT resources, and enabled seamless scaling for the merger with zero downtime.

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