Case Study: Hamilton College achieves FERPA compliance and reduces IT hours with TechValidate (CrashPlan endpoint backup)

Hamilton College deploys CrashPlan endpoint backup, supports FERPA compliance

Hamilton College, an educational institution, faced repeated endpoint data loss from lost or stolen laptops and hard drive failures that drained IT resources and reduced employee productivity. The college had relied on manual USB/external drive backups and used a documented data-loss event to build the case for a more reliable solution.

They deployed Code42 CrashPlan as a public-cloud endpoint backup (with encryption keys retained onsite in a master appliance), replacing manual backups. The rollout increased backup reliability and data security, reduced costs associated with data-loss events, saved 1–10 IT hours per week, and supported FERPA compliance.

Hamilton College

Ryan Coyle

System Administrator