If a faculty member is on sabbatical, for example, but all of her research was created on the computer in her office 300 miles away, she can just grab those files from CrashPlan and bring them up on her iPad.
“Here’s another case,” Bell said. “There were some faculty working with us that were doing research and they lost a laptop. They were able to basically just download all that data onto a new laptop and get to work again immediately.”
Many of the universities involved with Internet2 and using its Net+ platform have experience with CrashPlan, said Andrew Keating, program manager at Internet2. But the new service being provided to the consortium’s members is more specific to those universities’ concerns.
Six Internet2-member universities piloted the program first, including Arizona State University, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Then the organization used existing Net+ legal agreements that had already been reviewed by dozens of higher education counsel to inform the agreement with Code42, Keating said.
“We had ensure that not only were there customized options on the technical side, but also on the legal side of data handling and security,” Keating said.
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