Just as with every other sector, higher education grapples with mounds of data from countless sources that are critical to operations. This includes everything from student and faculty information to intellectual property related to research contracts. All of this critical data requires disaster recovery services to ensure that the data remains secure and accessible within and beyond the network edge.
Much higher education institutions are in the process of data center consolidation across central and satellite campuses with a cloud-based data backup part of the strategy. Over 60 percent of higher education institutions are looking at incorporating cloud computing into their IT strategy according to a survey conducted by MeriTalk. As part of that shift, many of these institutions are making college backup and DR decisions around cloud-based storage solutions.
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