Case Study: State of California achieves 10.5X storage savings and 50–75% reduced backup management time with Druva Cloud Platform

State of California protects VMware Cloud, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and on-premises data

The State of California Governor’s Office needed to modernize IT to support a highly mobile, cloud-first workforce. Its seven-person team moved to VMware Cloud (VMC) on Dell EMC and adopted SaaS like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, but legacy backup tools weren’t cloud-ready or certified for VMC, leaving VM and SaaS data protection, agility, and budget alignment at risk.

The office adopted the Druva Cloud Platform—a VMware-ready, cloud-native backup-as-a-service that provides a single pane of glass for VMware VMs and SaaS data, elastic scale with no hardware, and integrations for eDiscovery and security. The move delivered a 10.5× reduction in backup storage via global deduplication, a 50–75% reduction in time spent managing backups, faster restores (M365 recoveries in hours), eliminated hardware maintenance, and rapid support and deployment in weeks.

State of California

Chris Brode

ISO, Network and System Administrator