Case Study: California Department of State Hospitals achieves cloud mobility and 160 days of added productivity with Rubrik

California Department of State Hospitals Attains Cloud Mobility and 160 Days of Added Productivity with Rubrik

The California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) oversees five state forensic mental health hospitals and supports about 10,000 employees and 6,000 patients, where uptime and data integrity are critical for patient care and safety. After a wildfire revealed that legacy backups had been turned off—exposing the system to potential catastrophic loss—DSH faced lengthy restores, labor-intensive backup processes, and the need for a stronger disaster‑recovery and cloud strategy.

DSH implemented Rubrik to protect its virtualized environment, archive long‑term data to AWS S3, and automate workflows via ServiceNow. The move delivered near‑zero RTOs, 67% management time savings, 160 additional productivity days per year (32 days per site), a 45% reduction in TCO, a 75% smaller data‑center footprint, improved compliance and ransomware resilience, and faster, cloud‑enabled recovery.

California Department of State Hospitals

Andrew Hinkle

Chief Technology Officer