Case Study: Canterbury Christ Church University achieves 64% TCO savings and 90% reduced management time with Rubrik

Canterbury Christ Church University Drives 64% TCO Savings with Modern Data Protection

Canterbury Christ Church University, a public university in Kent, UK, relies on a centralized IT team to support every student and faculty interaction. The university was hampered by a labor‑intensive, disparate legacy backup environment that left data unprotected, caused lengthy recoveries that disrupted teaching and learning, limited automation, and required significant capital to scale.

The university deployed Rubrik Cloud Data Management with Polaris Radar and Polaris O365 Protection to provide policy‑based, automated backups across on‑prem, cloud and SaaS (including Amazon RDS for its core Student Record system), plus ransomware detection and NCSC‑aligned O365 offline protection. The move delivered 64% TCO savings by leveraging Rubrik and Microsoft Azure, 90% management time savings, a 90% reduction in data‑center footprint and power consumption, secured compliant backups and instant recovery to keep applications and learning uninterrupted.

Canterbury Christ Church University

Andy Powell

Head of Infrastructure