Case Study: Meredith achieves 90% management time savings and unified global data management with Rubrik Polaris GPS

Meredith Corporation Streamlines Architecture and Achieves Global Unified Data Management with Polaris GPS

Meredith Corporation, one of America’s largest media companies with iconic brands like PEOPLE and Better Homes & Gardens, faced a fragmented, labor‑intensive data management environment after multiple acquisitions. Disparate legacy backup systems, tape‑based restores, constant upgrade cycles, and difficulty proving PCI/SOX compliance left the IT team spending excessive time on backups instead of strategic work.

Meredith adopted Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management and Polaris GPS to unify backups across data centers and AWS, eliminate tape, and automate SLAs. The result: management time fell by about 90% (from two FTEs to a few hours per day), upgrades reclaimed ~25 workdays per year, restores went from days to minutes, and centralized visibility improved compliance and cloud mobility.

Meredith

David Coffman

Director of Enterprise Infrastructure