Case Study: Berkeley College achieves 33% TCO savings and near-zero RTO with Rubrik

Berkeley College Decreases Cost and Migrates to Microsoft Azure with Rubrik

Berkeley College, a private institution serving more than 8,000 students across multiple New Jersey and New York campuses and online programs, faced growing data-management pain from a legacy backup environment. The college struggled with unstable, hard-to-administer software, cumbersome replication and archiving (including tape), and lengthy recovery times that could take days.

By deploying Rubrik as a single platform for backup, disaster recovery, replication, cloud archival and test/dev—integrated with Pure Storage and Microsoft Azure—Berkeley eliminated tape, gained instant, policy-driven recovery (RTOs from days to seconds), enabled point‑in‑time SQL restores, and automated archival to Azure. The solution improved performance and workflows, unlocked test/dev capabilities, and delivered a 33% reduction in total cost of ownership.

Berkeley College

Leonard De Botton

CIO