Case Study: Centenary Institute achieves reliable, set-and-forget backups and rapid self-restores with Code42 CrashPlan

Medical research institute sheds undependable recovery system

Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology is an independent medical research institute in Sydney that manages critical, long-term research data (medical imaging, gene modification results, theses) for ~200 users. Their previous EMC Retrospect system was unreliable—single-threaded backups skipped asleep or offline machines, restores were slow and error-prone, and a two-person IT team needed a dependable, “set-and-forget” solution with self-restore capabilities.

The institute deployed CrashPlan (private cloud) for cross-platform, continuous endpoint backup and LDAP-based rollout, giving users simple self-restore tools and admins centralized, low-touch management. Restores that once took hours now complete in minutes, admin time and costs have dropped, permission controls secure departing users’ data, and Code42’s support smoothed the transition.

Centenary Institute

Owen Hoogvliet

Network Administrator, Centenary Institute