Case Study: Gordon College achieves over $50K in savings and reduced backup management time with TechValidate

Gordon College saves >$50K with CrashPlan, reduces time spent managing backups

Gordon College, an educational institution, was struggling with endpoint data loss from lost or stolen laptops, hard-drive failures and disruptions during OS migrations, which drained IT resources and reduced employee productivity. Leadership sought a scalable, reliable backup approach to protect faculty and student devices and to eliminate manual USB-based backups.

The college deployed CrashPlan as a private-cloud solution (on‑premises with Code42 appliances), replacing manual backups and securing buy-in by quantifying the cost of lost devices and end-user demand. Since implementation they’ve saved an estimated $50K–$500K in endpoint data recovery, improved backup reliability, reduced costs from data-loss events, and cut IT time spent on backups and migrations (about 1–10 hours per week), while benefiting from strong vendor support and scalability.

Gordon College

Chris Jones

Associate Vice President for Technology & Operations