Macrium Backup & Restore for Education - protect more, spend less

Protect your Windows Workstations & Servers at preferential pricing and pre-agreed terms for UK & Irish institutions

Why attend

• Procurement clarity: Understand exactly how the Jisc Chest agreement works for Macrium Backup & Restore—eligibility, purchasing steps, and pricing structure.
• Operational resilience: See how imaging, rapid bare-metal restore, and ransomware-resilient recovery fit campus realities (labs, VDI, faculty devices, servers).
• Do more with less: Simplify backup across mixed estates (workstations, servers, VMs) without ballooning licence and admin overheads.
• Practical rollout tips: Policies, scheduling, testing, and reporting that satisfy both IT and purchasing. 

What we’ll cover

• Introduction to Jisc/Chest Agreement 
• Who are Macrium 
• Overview of Macrium Backup & Restore in education environments 
• Demonstration: creating and validating backups; rapid restore scenarios 
• Q&A (procurement and technical) 

New to Chest? Jisc's Chest agreements lets approved UK & Irish educational institutions buy software on preferential terms with sector-friendly contracts. 

Who should attend

Procurement teams - IT Managers - Systems/Server Administrators - Desktop/Lab technicians - Security/Resilience leads 

Also running this week:

Macrium for Windows Deployment In Education — Thursday, 16 October 2025, 11:00am (BST). 

Streamline imaging and rollouts at scale across sites and locations. 

Learn more about the Windows Deployment webinar →