Case Study: Kern Medical achieves rapid ransomware recovery and 90%+ management time savings with Rubrik

Kern Medical Center Defends Against Ransomware and Migrates to Azure with Rubrik

Kern Medical Center, a 222‑bed Level II trauma center in Bakersfield, California, needed to modernize its IT to support a new EMR and ensure 24/7 availability for patient care. The hospital was burdened by a fragile, tape‑based backup system that required constant maintenance, caused lengthy restores, and left them vulnerable to ransomware and unable to move archives to the cloud.

By deploying Rubrik, Kern replaced tape with an immutable, policy-driven platform that protects virtualized workloads and archives long‑term records to Microsoft Azure. The solution enabled a full recovery from a ransomware incident, delivered near‑zero RTOs, returned 42 days of annual productivity (90%+ management time savings), and freed the IT team to focus on higher‑value projects like the EMR rollout.

Kern Medical

Craig Witmer

Chief Technology Officer