Case Study: Tampa Bay Rays achieves instant recovery and cloud archival with Rubrik

Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays Deliver Game-Changing Performance with Instant Recovery and Cloud Archival

Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays needed a faster, more reliable way to protect and access critical game‑prep and operations data across about 350 VMs. Their legacy mix of tape and disk backups was slow and complex — file restores could take six hours to four days, backups demanded 3–4 hours of daily management and multiple staff — creating operational risk during the season.

The Rays deployed Rubrik for VM- and file-level backup, global real-time search and cloud archival, integrating with Nutanix and VMware and going from install to protection in under an hour. Results included near‑zero RTOs with restores in minutes, a drop in daily backup management to roughly 10–20 minutes, 15x data reduction (~93.9%), and immediate annual savings of $80–$100K.

Tampa Bay Rays

Juan Ramirez

Vice President of Information Technology