Higher education institutions have complex data storage and retrieval needs that range from admissions, distance learning, operations and research to general operations and human resources. The diversity of data needs ranging from access and retrieval to compliance, uninterrupted operations and security make backup and disaster recovery a priority.

With such a diversity of needs involving data, managing it in ways that that can overcome the strong possibility of human error in storage regardless of the on-site technology has major operational repercussions. Reports show education is now the most targeted industry for ransomware, with many recent attacks on universities and colleges. Human error accounted for 35 percent of data breaches in the education sector last year according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report.

While higher education institutions have increased software as a service (SaaS) use, many still use on-site software, hardware and storage for:

• Student record maintenance
• Registration and grade reporting
• ERP and CRM systems used for compiling and processing student data.
• HR and payroll
• Financial data
• Proprietary research

Distance learning needs This makes backup and disaster recovery more complex. The challenge for these applications and its data stores is the vulnerability to outages and breaches where records could be lost or compromised. This could mean vital activities like grade reporting or course registration processes could be interrupted.

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New York, USA 10311
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