Case Study: Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation achieves 90% reduction in backup management time and near-zero RTOs with Rubrik

Jones-Onslow EMC Boosts Operational Efficiency and Achieves High Performance with Rubrik

Jones-Onslow EMC (JOEMC) is a member-owned electric cooperative in eastern North Carolina serving about 75,000 members. With a small IT team supporting critical customer-service and outage-management applications—including an Oracle database used to create work orders—legacy backup processes were time-consuming and recovery was slow, risking delayed field response during outages and hurricane season.

Working with partner eGroup, JOEMC deployed Rubrik as a single, policy-driven backup solution across virtual, physical, database, and NAS environments. The result: 90% less backup management time (about 26 workdays returned annually), near‑zero RTOs (recoveries cut from 20–30 minutes to ~1 minute), a 75% reduction in backup windows (from ~12 to ~3 hours), simpler compliance reporting, and faster, more reliable support for field technicians.

Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation

Andy Shepard

Assistant Vice President of Network Administration