Case Study: McMaster University Protects Healthcare Data with Clumio

McMaster University Protects Irreplaceable Healthcare Data with Innovative Backup in the Cloud

McMaster University, a leading research institution with a major health sciences program, needed a modern backup strategy for its medical research data. The university wanted to move backups off site while keeping all data in Canada, eliminate costly on-premises infrastructure, simplify management, and protect against ransomware. Its existing Veeam-based approach was becoming too expensive and complex, and other alternatives did not offer the cloud-based flexibility it needed.

Clumio provided McMaster University with cloud-based backup as a service integrated with AWS and designed for Canadian data residency, air-gapped protection, and easy administration. With Clumio, McMaster reduced backup infrastructure by 40% and total cost of ownership by more than 55%, while enabling fast restores and stronger ransomware resilience. The result was simpler, more affordable protection for critical healthcare research data, and Clumio gave the university a scalable path to expand cloud backup further.

McMaster University

Graig Kelly

Technology Manager/Infrastructure