Case Study: Ipswich Grammar School achieves faster cloud backups and reduced TCO with Druva

Ipswich Grammar School moves to Druva for a cloud built backup solution

Ipswich Grammar School, Queensland’s oldest grammar school serving about 1,000 students, needed a modern, cloud-ready backup approach as it migrated Microsoft Exchange to Office 365. Their existing on‑premises Veeam setup would have required multiple products and an external cloud partner, and the school sought a single, scalable solution to protect large volumes of curriculum and student data while meeting retention and regulatory needs.

They adopted Druva’s 100% SaaS Cloud Platform on AWS for cloud‑to‑cloud Office 365 backup, incremental backups for physical and virtual workloads, and a single control plane for fast file‑level and email recovery. The move delivered significantly faster backups, lower TCO through long‑term retention and global deduplication, elimination of hardware refresh cycles, and improved IT productivity when onboarding 180 users and restoring deleted data quickly.

Ipswich Grammar School

David Peace

Network and Security Administrator