Case Study: Hamline University achieves worry-free cloud migration with Spanning Backup

Hamline University Confidently Moves to the Cloud with Spanning Backup

Hamline University, Minnesota’s oldest university with an organization size of about 5,000, adopted Google Apps to boost collaboration but faced heightened risk of data loss from user errors and the limitations of cloud-side control. Ensuring reliable backup and recovery was a priority to support a smooth migration from an on‑premises system and to protect critical email and Drive content.

Hamline chose Spanning Backup for its better interface, Cloud Alliance integration, and partnership approach; Spanning provided automated protection for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Sites, and Contacts and simple, user-facing restore tools so IT didn’t have to handle every recovery. The result was a worry-free cloud environment with visible backups that reassured users, streamlined restores, and delivered ongoing peace of mind for IT and stakeholders.

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