Case Study: Insular Life achieves simplified data protection and instant server recovery with Rubrik

Insular Life Simplifies Data Protection with Rubrik

Insular Life, the Philippines’ first and largest Filipino life insurer with more than 110 years of history and a workforce supporting ~1,000 employees and 4,000 agents, faced a critical data protection challenge: decades-long tape backups and a complex, manual legacy system that threatened data integrity and limited scalability—problems made more urgent by the shift to e-commerce and remote operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By deploying Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management, Insular Life modernized and unified backup, recovery, and archiving workflows, enabling electronic site-to-site transfers, instant server recovery, and cloud archiving for disaster recovery and compliance. The change delivered tangible benefits: 83% management time savings (from ~2 hours to <30 minutes daily), a 90% reduction in data center footprint, minute‑level server recovery instead of hours, and stronger ransomware protection and system availability.

Insular Life

Larry C. Delos Santos

SAVP, Head of Technical Services, Information Technology Division