Case Study: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman achieves API-driven automation, enhanced security, and 90% faster restores with Rubrik

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Achieves API-Driven Automation and Security with Rubrik

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a global law firm with about 1,600 employees and a fully virtualized infrastructure, faced scalability, security, and recovery challenges with a cumbersome legacy backup solution. Restores were slow (about an hour per VM), Exchange/SQL/SharePoint recoveries were manual and time-consuming, reporting for compliance was unreliable, and growing data sprawl made costs and management increasingly unsustainable.

By adopting Rubrik’s API-first, scale-out platform, Pillsbury automated reporting and cleanup, implemented Live Mount for instant VM access, and encrypted and air-gapped backups for stronger security and faster ransomware recovery. The firm reduced restore times from an hour to five minutes, cut daily management time by about 90% (from 30 minutes to under a minute), achieved near-zero RTOs with frequent snapshots, and gained centralized, automated visibility for compliance.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

David Comer

Senior Network Engineer