Case Study: Point Loma Nazarene University achieves faster, more secure backup recovery with Clumio

PLNU Takes Data Protection into the Future with Backup as a Service

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU), a Christian liberal arts university, needed a better way to protect sensitive student and faculty data from ransomware and other disasters. With growing concerns around HIPAA, FERPA, and PII/PHI compliance, PLNU wanted a true offsite, air-gapped backup strategy that would be easier to manage and more reliable than its limited on-prem and multi-pane backup setup.

PLNU chose **Clumio** as a backup as a service solution for AWS backup and ransomware protection, enabling unified backup and retention policies across multiple data sources. The result was faster restores—dropping from 6–8 hours to as little as 30–45 minutes—plus more than 20% cost savings versus managing backups with scripts, along with simplified backup management and improved support visibility.

Point Loma Nazarene University

Joe Alcorn

Infrastructure Manager