Case Study: KU Leuven achieves GDPR-compliant, vendor-independent Microsoft 365 protection with Keepit

KU Leuven secures 1 petabyte of Microsoft 365 data with Keepit in 1.5 hours

KU Leuven, a major European university with over 65,000 students, needed a backup solution for its Microsoft 365 environment that would meet strict GDPR and data sovereignty requirements. The university determined that Microsoft's native tools were insufficient and launched a tender to find a compliant solution, ultimately selecting the Keepit backup service through their IT provider, Cegeka.

Keepit provided a vendor-independent solution with data stored in dedicated European data centers, ensuring compliance and control. The implementation was fully operational within 1.5 hours and simplified recovery processes, allowing the service desk to perform restores without specialist intervention. Keepit now safeguards over one petabyte of the university's data, providing resilient, long-term protection and significantly reducing the IT operational burden.

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