Case Study: California Department of Toxic Substances Control achieves 62 days of added productivity with Rubrik

California DTSC Moves to Rubrik’s Modern Cloud Data Management and Gains 62 Days of Added Productivity

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is a Sacramento-based state agency that protects Californians and the environment from hazardous substances. Supporting over 800 employees, its 65-person IT team was hampered by a complex, time-consuming legacy backup solution that suffered performance problems, lengthy restores, high costs, and vulnerability to local disasters.

DTSC implemented Rubrik to protect its 100% virtualized environment and archive long‑term data to AWS S3, with the ability to spin up workloads in the cloud via CloudOn. The change yielded 90%+ management time savings (about 62 extra productive days per year), near‑zero RTOs, roughly 50% monthly cost savings (~$42K/year), a 90% reduction in data center footprint, and self‑service restores for SQL DBAs.

Department of Toxic Substances Control

Kham Xiong

CTO