Case Study: Niagara College Canada cleans data for cloud migration with Qohash Qostodian Recon

College Cleans Data for Successful Cloud Migration

Niagara College Canada, a higher education institution with thousands of students and multiple campuses, needed a better way to understand, classify, and clean sensitive data before a cloud migration. Facing a large volume of records spread across servers, drives, and email, the college’s data governance team needed to find data across all locations, identify duplicates, determine access and creation dates, and produce clear reports to support decision-making. Qohash’s Qostodian Recon was selected to help address these data discovery and governance challenges.

With Qohash’s Qostodian Recon, Niagara College Canada was able to install the tool quickly and begin scanning data within minutes. The team cut scan times from days to less than six hours for several terabytes, and under two hours for hundreds of gigabytes, while also gaining contextual, easy-to-read reports that helped weed out false positives and prioritize the most critical issues. The results improved buy-in across departments, supported successful cloud migration and data governance efforts, and helped reduce costs by ensuring only necessary data moved to the cloud.

Niagara College Canada

Claire Rosati

Associate Director of Project & Portfolio Office