Case Study: Boston University achieves hands-free, fully encrypted endpoint backup and fast, reliable restores with Code42 CrashPlan

CrashPlan brings hands-free, multi-platform data protection to university users

Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences—home to 20,000 students and 1,600 faculty/staff—faced a growing data-protection problem: faculty and staff used desktops and BYOD mobile devices to store sensitive, HIPAA- and FERPA-regulated data, but their legacy Retrospect backups were unreliable, manual, and costly to restore (frequent failed recoveries and $1,000 data-recovery incidents). The college needed consistent, hands-free endpoint backups with end-to-end encryption, simple reporting, and minimal administration.

CAS deployed CrashPlan in a managed private-cloud model to provide automatic, fully encrypted endpoint backups across platforms. The result: virtually no restore tickets, fast and complete recoveries (including a stolen-laptop case), significantly reduced IT monitoring and disaster-recovery costs, and improved compliance—freeing IT from “backup babysitting” and allowing expansion of coverage with minimal overhead.

Boston University

Brian Anderson

Director of Information Technology for Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences