Case Study: Smith School of Business achieves comprehensive Google Apps data protection with Spanning Backup

Spanning Safeguards Faculty & Student Data at Smith School of Business

The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (about 5,470 users) moved from IBM Lotus Domino to Google Apps to meet faculty and student expectations for a modern collaboration platform. Christopher Gleeson, Manager of Messaging and Collaboration, identified a key challenge: Google’s native restore capabilities couldn’t reliably recover individual emails, folders, or other critical data, so the school needed a dependable backup to protect faculty, staff, and student work.

They implemented Spanning Backup for Google Apps to protect Gmail, Drive/Docs, Sites, Calendar, and Contacts. The solution was quick to deploy, easy for users to self-serve restores, reduced IT time spent on data protection, and delivered faster recoveries and greater peace of mind — praised for its features, usability, cost, and support.

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