Overview
Druva offers a special licensing model via Managed Service Providers (MSPs) designed for the Educational Institutions allowing them to efficiently manage their data protection needs. The Education License enables the MSPs to provide a cost-effective data protection solution for the educational institutions that use Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 for their educational needs.
Benefits
Exclusive Discounted Pricing for Educational Institutions: The MSPs can now offer exclusive discounted pricing for educational institutions to back up their Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 data.
Expanded Market Reach: The MSPs can now provide data protection services to educational institutions, thus expanding the market reach.
Simplified Onboarding: The Education License customers can be easily onboarded via the MSC console, ensuring a simplified and streamlined onboarding experience.
Seamless Automated Billing: The discounted pricing and billing for the educational institutions are handled by an automated process, thus eliminating the need for manual intervention.
How the Education License Works
The Education License works on two factors:
License Distribution (Faculty-Student Ratio)
Storage Allocation
License Distribution (Faculty-Student Ratio)
The Education License works on a 1:4 ratio, meaning that for every faculty license purchased, four student licenses are provided at no additional cost.
📝 Notes
The Education License is applicable to the educational institution customers which have an active subscription to use Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 Workloads for their educational needs.
The Education license is applicable only for the Active Users and their add-ons, and does not apply to Preserved Users.
The Product UI automatically calculates and displays the license distribution for your ease of understanding.
For example: Let us consider an MSP request for 10 Education Licenses for an educational institution customer. As per the Faculty-Student ratio, the customer will receive 2 faculty licenses and 8 student licenses. The MSP will be charged for 2 faculty licenses for the customer, and the customer can back up the data for a total of 10 resources (2 faculty + 8 students)
The table below shows a few example scenarios that will explain the distribution of the faculty and student license ratio.
Total User Count | Faculty Licenses | Student Licenses |
10 | 2 | 8 |
30 | 6 | 24 |
50 | 10 | 40 |
100 | 20 | 80 |
📝 Notes
The Education License requested must be in multiples of 5. Example 5, 10, 25, 50, and so on.
The Education License is not applicable to Preserved Users. Therefore, the Education discount (1:4) is calculated based solely on the Total number of Active Users.
Storage Allocation
The Storage allocation for each faculty license is determined based on the license edition. The faculty license and the associated student licenses can utilize this storage.
The following is the storage allocation as per the license edition:
Business - 20 GB / faculty license
Enterprise/Elite - 50 GB / faculty license
High Storage Tier Enabled - 300 GB / faculty license
For Example: Let us consider an MSP request for 50 Education Licenses for an educational institution customer with a Business license edition. As per the Faculty-Student ratio, the customer will receive 10 faculty licenses and 40 student licenses. The customer will be charged for 10 faculty licenses and will be allocated the storage for 10 faculty licenses to backup the data of a total of 50 resources (10 Faculty + 40 Students).
Total Storage Allocated = 10 (Faculty Licenses) * 20 GB (Business Edition), which equals to 200 GB of storage.
The table below shows a few example scenarios that will explain the distribution of the faculty and student license Ratio and corresponding storage allocation.
Total User Count | Faculty Licenses | Student Licenses | Business | Enterprise/Elite | High Storage Tier Enabled |
10 | 2 | 8 | 2*20GB = 40GB | 2*50GB = 100GB | 2*300GB = 600GB |
30 | 6 | 24 | 6*20GB = 120GB | 6*50GB = 300GB | 6*300GB = 1800GB |
50 | 10 | 40 | 10*20GB = 200GB | 10*50GB = 500GB | 10*300GB = 3000GB |
100 | 20 | 80 | 20*20GB = 400GB | 20*50GB = 1000GB | 20*300GB = 6000GB |