📚 Event: EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2026
🗓️ Dates: September 29–October 2, 2026
📍 Location: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado
IDrive Booth: #1858
As educational institutions continue to rely on cloud applications for teaching, learning, collaboration, and administration, cloud backup solutions have become an increasingly important part of an institution’s overall data protection strategy.
IDrive is excited to exhibit at the 2026 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, taking place September 29 – October 2 in Denver, Colorado, where higher education technology professionals will gather to explore emerging technologies, share best practices, and discover solutions for today’s IT challenges.
Visit IDrive at Booth #1858 to learn how IDrive’s cloud-to-cloud backup solutions can help educational institutions protect critical data across the platforms they use every day.
Protecting Academic Data in the Cloud
Educational organizations increasingly depend on platforms such as Google Workspace to support everything from email and document collaboration to classroom instruction. While these platforms provide powerful productivity and learning capabilities, organizations still need a dedicated strategy for protecting their data against accidental deletion, user error, malicious activity, ransomware, and other data-loss scenarios.
At EDUCAUSE 2026, IDrive will highlight its Google Workspace Backup solution, designed to provide automated, secure backup and recovery for critical Google Workspace data.
With IDrive, administrators can manage backup and recovery across multiple Google Workspace domains, with automated backups performed up to three times per day. Data is protected using AES-256 encryption, while point-in-time recovery and versioning provide additional flexibility when restoring data.
A Closer Look at Google Classroom Backup
One of the key solutions IDrive will showcase at EDUCAUSE is Google Classroom Backup, built specifically to help educational institutions protect their digital learning environments.
Google Classroom contains much more than individual documents. IDrive’s solution can back up announcements, classwork, people, grades, and associated Drive files, helping institutions preserve the broader classroom environment.
Key capabilities include:
- Comprehensive classroom backup — Protect the full Google Classroom environment rather than just individual files.
- Automated backups — Perform up to three backups per day to maintain multiple recovery points.
- Point-in-time recovery — Restore classroom data to an earlier version following accidental deletion, corruption, or malicious activity.
- Multi-domain support — Centrally manage backups across multiple school domains.
- Flexible recovery — Restore individual data or entire classroom environments.
- Secure data protection — AES-256 encryption helps protect data both in transit and at rest.
For schools and institutions that have made Google Classroom an integral part of digital instruction, dedicated backup can provide an additional layer of protection for valuable educational data.
Comprehensive Cloud-to-Cloud Protection
In addition to Google Workspace and Google Classroom, IDrive provides cloud-to-cloud backup for a range of widely used business and productivity platforms. These offerings enable organizations to create an independent copy of their cloud data, helping reduce the risks associated with accidental deletion, ransomware, service disruptions, and other data-loss scenarios.
IDrive’s cloud-to-cloud portfolio includes:
- Microsoft Office 365 Backup – Protect Microsoft 365 data including OneDrive, SharePoint, Exchange, and Teams, with automated backups, point-in-time snapshots, granular recovery, and centralized management.
- Google Workspace Backup – Protect critical Google Workspace data, including Gmail, Drive, and other Workspace services, with centralized backup and recovery.
- Dropbox Backup – Back up and protect data stored in Dropbox.
- Box Backup – Protect business and organizational data stored in Box.
- Salesforce Backup – Help organizations protect critical Salesforce data and recover it when necessary.
IDrive e2: Object Storage for Education
Beyond backup, IDrive will also showcase IDrive e2, its S3-compatible cloud object storage platform. For educational institutions managing large volumes of research data, media, archives, application data, and other digital assets, IDrive e2 provides scalable cloud storage with S3 compatibility, making it easy to integrate with existing storage applications and workflows. IDrive e2 can provide educational organizations with a flexible, cost-effective option for storing and managing growing volumes of institutional data in the cloud.
Meet IDrive at EDUCAUSE 2026
EDUCAUSE brings together thousands of higher education technology professionals and technology providers to explore solutions for the evolving needs of educational institutions. The 2026 in-person conference will take place September 29 – October 2 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, with the EDUCAUSE Commons located in Exhibit Hall D.
We look forward to connecting with education technology leaders in Denver and discussing new ways to protect the data that keeps institutions, educators, and students protected.
