Case Study: LKAB achieves 234 days per year and 700,000 SEK in productivity with Rubrik

LKAB Gains 234 Days and 700 000 SEK Back to the Business with Rubrik’s Modern Cloud Data Management

LKAB is a state‑owned Swedish mining company operating large underground iron‑ore deposits and supporting about 6,000 employees. Facing a complex, tape‑based legacy backup environment spread across remote sites, the IT team struggled with lengthy restores, an inability to move data to the cloud, and the risk of millions of SEK in lost revenue if critical production and safety applications could not be rapidly recovered.

By adopting Rubrik’s modern cloud data management (including Rubrik Edge and Azure archival), LKAB centralized protection across virtual and physical systems, enabled instant recovery, and automated long‑term retention. The change delivered 90%+ management time savings, returned 234 workdays (over 700,000 SEK) to the business, cut restore times from ~5 hours to 15 minutes, sped ticket resolution by ~95%, reduced data center footprint by 75%, and provided seamless cloud mobility and single‑pane visibility.

LKAB

Robert Pohjanen

Storage Consultant in Charge of Data Center Operations