Case Study: California State University achieves accelerated AWS migration, on-demand masked data delivery and millions in cost savings with Delphix

Delphix And AWS Enable Cal State University To Bring AI-Driven Digital Experiences To Half A Million Students

California State University (CSU), a 23‑campus system serving nearly 500,000 students, needed to modernize its Oracle/PeopleSoft Common Management System to stay competitive, improve graduation outcomes and give campuses faster, secure access to data while cutting costs. The university faced three core challenges: reducing costs, delivering data more quickly to campuses and application teams, and meeting rigorous security and compliance requirements as it moved to a hybrid cloud with AWS.

CSU partnered with Delphix and Unisys to deploy a DevOps Data Platform with data virtualization, masking and API controls, enabling on‑demand virtual copies of masked production data and automated provisioning. The solution scaled data delivery from ~200 manual clones per month to over 2,000 automated requests in minutes, moved ~15TB/day across campuses, delivered about $2M/year in development storage savings (and avoided larger infrastructure costs), strengthened compliance (HIPAA/PCI/GDPR/CCPA) and accelerated app delivery—helping CSU drive a more sustainable digital campus and improved student outcomes.

California State University