Case Study: Carnegie Mellon University Qatar achieves reliable cross-platform endpoint backups and reduced IT hours with TechValidate

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar replaces Atempo with CrashPlan

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar needed a more reliable, cross‑platform endpoint backup as its campus grew. Data loss from lost/stolen laptops, hard drive failures and OS migrations was draining IT resources, undermining confidence in IT, and exposing the school to negative publicity; existing tools (Atempo LiveBackup and Apple Time Machine) no longer met their needs.

The university deployed CrashPlan as an on‑premises private‑cloud solution, replacing Atempo and Time Machine to support Linux/Mac/Windows endpoints. The move increased backup reliability and data privacy, lowered costs from data‑loss events, reduced IT hours spent on backups and migrations (saving about 1–10 hours/week), and improved overall endpoint protection.

Carnegie Mellon University

Kamal Taynaz

Senior Systems Engineer