Case Study: Columbia Business School achieves simplified, secure endpoint backup and faster self-service restores with Code42 (CrashPlan)

Continuous endpoint data protection simplifies user restores and backup management

Columbia Business School, a large academic unit in New York City, needed a true endpoint backup solution to support diverse users—faculty with research datasets up to 2 TB, 450 administrative staff, and traveling personnel. Prior practices relied on personal accounts and sync tools (SugarSync/Dropbox) plus local drive backups, which led to sync failures, rising storage costs, and little IT insight or control over backups.

The school deployed CrashPlan enterprise endpoint backup (public cloud plus an on‑site server) integrated with Active Directory to enable self‑service restores, cross‑platform sync, versioning, and streamlined tech refreshes. The result: faster, more reliable backups with lower cost per gigabyte, quicker ticket resolution, improved IT control and disaster recovery, and greater user confidence in data protection.

Columbia Business School

Eric Hall

Associate Director of Project Management