Backup & Recovery Solutions for Educational Institutions
Continuous application-aware snapshot and lightning fast recovery of your entire server(s)
Ensuring the fast and efficient backup, replication and disaster recovery of critical applications is a challenge facing school systems of all sizes and can be daunting as data continues to grow and the requirements to secure that data (course materials, transcripts, research and student data as well as financial information) become more complex.
Colleges, universities, private schools and school districts are faced with numerous backup and disaster recovery challenges including:
- Rapidly growing application data
- course materials
- transcripts
- student data
- financial information
- unique research data
- Continuous threat of hacking and cyber attacks
- Limited IT budgets and staffing
- Slow and unreliable recovery from tape
- Aging infrastructure
- The increased use of Virtualization
- Implementing and maintaining replication to the cloud or remote data center
Dell AppAssure Software for Educational Institutions is a software solution that’s priced affordably for schools of all sizes, providing extremely fast, application-aware backup, replication and disaster recovery in minutes for mission critical application servers:
- Windows Servers
- Windows Desktops
- VMware VSphere, ESX, ESXi & MS Hyper-V
- MS Exchange
- MS SQL
- MS SharePoint
Dell AppAssure Software for Educational Institutions features:
- Near continuous backup snapshots with server rewind to any recovery point giving you the ability to roll back to any point-in-time, and recover entire servers or individual files, Exchange emails, SharePoint and MS SQL objects
- Blazing fast backup and recovery of physical and virtual environments
- Granular level application restores in minutes for individual files, MS Exchange items and SharePoint docs
- Built in snapshot replication enables offsite disaster recovery, ideal for remote data centers or cloud based backup strategies
- Push-button failover to standby virtual machines for high availability
- Fast off-site disaster recovery of servers and applications
- Bare metal recovery to similar or dissimilar hardware
Partial List of Dell AppAssure Education Backup Software Clients:
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Flagler College |  |
Hitchcock Schools |
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Imagine Schools
Dell AppAssure makes Network administrator “Hero of the Day” |
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University of West Alabama |
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Valley City State University |  |
Washtenaw Community College |
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Why Customers Choose
Dell AppAssure:
"I'm speechless how easy and simple Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery Software is."
Eric Kringlie
Systems Administrator,
Valley City State University
"With Dell AppAssure, we're able to do so much more than ever before. We can now set specific, realistic, enforceable guidelines, policies and timelines for our backups and DR plans."
Michael Pratt
Director of the Office of IT,
University of West Alabama
"We have different servers set at various intervals for our snaps, from 15 minutes to two hours, depending on what type of recovery point objective we've set for the server. And the speed of recovery every time with AppAssure... well, let me just say, this is fast."
Scott Crews
Network Manager,
Alabama State Department of Education
"There's no way we could have been in this state before Dell AppAssure. Their options and features are far simpler than anything else I'd had come across in my 15 years of working with backup and disaster recovery solutions."
Brendan Hourihan
Director of Technology Services,
Flagler College
"I don't have to worry about a server going down now. We have hot swap so if anything goes down I just flip on a new server and it's as current as 15 minutes ago."
Chris Armacost
Director of Technology,
Hitchcock Independent School District
"Dell AppAssure is so easy to use. It's like navigating Windows Explorer. It's just an agent and a console. It's so flexible; I can restore a single message or an entire database with one click."
Rich Frangiamore
Network Administrator,
Imagine Schools
"Other products we had looked at were priced much higher than Dell AppAssure. In some cases, three to four times more than Dell AppAssure. For organizations like us, Dell AppAssure scales well and is very reasonably priced."
Amin Ladha
CIO, Washtenaw Community College