University of Notre Dame Protects Data on AWS

N2W Software, Inc., a provider of backup and recovery solutions for AWS and a Veeam company, announced that The University of Notre Dame is protecting critical data and workloads on AWS with Cloud Protection Manager (CPM) from N2WS.

Aaron Wright, Notre Dame’s systems engineer, presented in a webinar co-sponsored with AWS on June 13, 2018 detailing how the university maintains continuity with its cloud workloads and data when unforeseen circumstances arise.

Notre Dame is a national Catholic university with more than 8,500 undergraduates and more than 3,800 graduate and professional students. For many years, it has operated under a cloud-first initiative, and its goal is to have 80% of all academic and administrative workloads on the cloud within three years. To date, most of their line of business applications are already on the cloud, such as authentication, which helps students and faculty as they travel; and the university website is able to deal with traffic spikes.

With many mission-critical applications and data on AWS and much more to come, Notre Dame has adopted a forward-thinking backup strategy on AWS. It turned to Cloud Protection Manager (CPM) from N2WS, to protect numerous accounts and regions with regularly-scheduled, incremental, snapshot-based backups.

As a cloud-native backup tool built for AWS, Cloud Protection Manager gives organizations the ability to backup data as often as needed and recover it more quickly than with traditional on-premises backup solutions, simplifying workloads and saving teams’ time and resources.

Notre Dame’s forward-thinking approach to cloud data protection has already paid off. For example, the applications team rolled out a patch on a production server and unwittingly introduced a vulnerability. The university was able to leverage CPM to roll the patch back, retaining critical data and supporting BC.

“At Notre Dame, our IT infrastructure relies heavily on Amazon Web Services, so our data and applications must be protected and available,” said Wright. “With CPM from N2WS, I know that if data is corrupted or accidentally deleted, we will be able to restore it almost instantaneously. N2WS is a critical piece of our cloud strategy.“

“Notre Dame is a leader in using AWS to its fullest potential to achieve a nimble, flexible and efficient IT infrastructure,” said Andy Langsam, COO, N2WS. “And with N2WS ensuring continuity, Notre Dame can continue to rely on AWS and expand the university’s presence there, knowing that all data and applications can be restored in less than a minute.“