Case Study: Concordia University achieves effortless, reliable endpoint data protection with Code42 CrashPlan

CrashPlan enables airtight security and storage

Concordia University-Saint Paul, a comprehensive liberal arts school with roughly 300 faculty and staff who primarily work on Windows laptops, lacked a delegated endpoint backup solution—users relied on USBs and external drives, SSD upgrades reduced local storage, and IT had no visibility or control over backups. The university needed an easy self-restore capability that IT could manage and lock down, retain permission controls for departing employees, and keep costs predictable with effectively unlimited storage.

Concordia deployed CrashPlan (public cloud storage with on-site encryption keys) across its faculty and staff in about a month. The solution delivered automatic endpoint backups, remote installs and simple self-restores—enabling fast recoveries (for example, restoring a professor’s files to a new laptop), eliminating recovery tickets, reducing IT time on migrations and restores, avoiding extra on-site storage costs, and boosting user confidence.

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Jon Mierow

Senior Network Administrator, Concordia University-Saint Paul