Case Study: Northwestern College strengthens backup security and recovery with Synology ActiveProtect

Northwestern College strengthens backup security and cuts storage by 46% with Synology Inc.

Northwestern College, a private Christian institution in Iowa, needed a modern backup solution to reduce complexity and add air-gapped protection for its 23TB of critical data across 55 virtual machines. Their previous system was manual and lacked these key security features. They turned to Synology Inc. and implemented Synology ActiveProtect to address this challenge.

The solution involved deploying the Synology ActiveProtect Appliance, which provided a unified and user-friendly platform for automated, air-gapped backups. This implementation by Synology resulted in improved security against ransomware, a streamlined workflow that reduced IT overhead, and a 46% storage reduction via deduplication. The college now has greater confidence in its ability to quickly recover critical data.

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