Google does not provide any native backup for your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) environment. As advised in Google Cloud Architecture Centre Shared Responsibility/Fate documentation, the responsibility for securing your Google Classroom/Workspace data ultimately lies with you.
A third-party backup is by far the best way to protect your users' Gmail, Google Drive, Contacts, Calendars and Shared Drives against accidental or malicious file deletion, other user errors, ransomware, and data corruption. Cloudlake® Google Workspace Backup is the most powerful, reliable and comprehensive solution available, ideally suited to the Education Sector.
Using leading enterprise-class backup tooling with over 450,000 protected users and 400+PBs of protected data, alongside Wasabi's unlimited and immutable universal cloud storage, we deliver the most comprehensive and cost-effective Google Workspace Backup solution for Education Users with increased data protection and no additional ingress/egress/API fees.
WHY TALK TO US? We offer free advice to UK Schools, Academies, Colleges, and Trusts on how to affordably backup their Google Workspace for Education environments. Schedule a free call with one of our Specialists to explore how we can manage all your cloud backup requirements for even less than you might pay for an on-premise NAS solution. Alternatively fill out the above form to set up your free 14-day trial. Here are some of our Education Customers currently benefiting from our range of Cloudlake® Services ...
WHY IS GOOGLE WORKSPACE BACKUP SO CRITICAL FOR EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS?
The risk of losing your data has always existed but now more so than ever: The GOV.UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 reports that 71% of secondary schools and 86% of further education colleges identified a breach or attack in the past year. This figure rises to 97% of higher education institutions who are the most likely to be affected by cyber-attacks, with 46% of them reporting being attacked weekly!
Let’s say you lost your Google Classroom or Google Workspace data due to a cyber attack ... with student coursework, teaching notes, research papers, and confidential safeguarding information all on it ... this would be devastating for management, teachers, and pupils alike. You can archive workloads to Google Vault but none of this is a veritable backup that would genuinely protect you in this instance.
So when the inevitable happens, how do you recover? Without a third-party backup in place there is no realistic hope of a full recovery. Cloudlake Google Workspace Backup stores backups independently from Google servers and enables granular restores of all Google Workspace files, emails, and content. This ensures you can quickly restore Google Workspace data and meet all regulatory requirements.
BENEFITS OF CLOUDLAKE GOOGLE WORKSPACE BACKUP
Easy-to-use: 'set it and forget it' best-in-class data protection
Simple pricing: based on your actual usage (active members of staff/students)
Flexible billing: pay monthly or yearly
No overpayments: pay only for what you require each month
Scale: increase or decrease your licences at any time
Modular & Disaggregated: add or remove service elements at any time
Protection: from any threat, whether internal or external
Reduced operational costs: with full onboarding and support services included
Sovereignty: you have access to your storage and control its location
CAPABILITIES OF CLOUDLAKE GOOGLE WORKSPACE FOR EDUCATION BACKUP
Retrieve Gmail, Google Drive, Contacts, Calendars, and Shared Drive data from a cloud-based instance of Google Workspace
Recover individual files, entire folders, or drives
Flexible backup storage options, allowing you to choose exactly where and how you store your backup data
Reporting and tracking to ensure compliance requirements are achieved.
If you choose to use our storage repository, it’s only £5.99 per month (or less) for each TB stored*
* It’s important to avoid the hidden charges baked into unlimited storage repositories generally offered by other vendors. When comparing pricing against available alternatives, you’ll find this to be the most cost-effective solution, with the best product, premium service, and highest security levels as standard.
CLOUDLAKE EDUCATION CUSTOMERS' TESTIMONIALS
"Cost was one of the main reasons we chose Cloudlake over other supplier offerings. At the price point Autodata offers with their Cloudlake service, the question is why wouldn’t you? Now it’s up and running we very rarely have to look at it apart from to check our storage usage. Does what it says on the tin at a price point that can’t be beaten!"
Head of IT Services, Royal Alexandra & Albert School
"Autodata’s Cloudlake functionality is comparable to other leading backup solutions however its pricing and billing options really set it apart. We were able to choose between annual upfront or monthly itemised billing at no extra cost and Cloudlake’s disaggregated-cloud model allows us to take only those parts of the solution that we require. On account of its combined functionality, flexibility and affordability, I’d definitely recommend Cloudlake!"
IT Systems Manager, Blackburn College
"In my opinion, Cloudlake is easier to understand and considerably more flexible than comparable services".
Systems Manager, Cleaswell Hill School
Autodata (www.autodata.co.uk) specialises in Data Centre, Cloud and Cyber Security solutions. Established in 1986, we are one of the longest-running I.T. solutions and services providers in the UK. We developed Cloudlake® in response to the fundamental need for a fully disaggregated cloud offering that is affordable, payable on a monthly basis, completely transparent in terms of costs and invoicing, and with the built-in ability to cancel any element at any time, thereby avoiding the vendor lock-in associated with other cloud services.
GOT ANY QUESTIONS? We're here to answer them! If you'd like to speak to someone call us on +44 20 7749 7949 or start a Live Chat with one of our Specialists. Alternatively you can book a free 30-minute web-meeting here to go through things in more detail, or feel free to email your enquiry to cloudlake@autodata.co.uk. If you would like to trial our Google Workspace for Education Backup service, please complete the form at the head of the page with your contact details and we will be in touch with everything you need.
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