Case Study: Quantum Spatial manages petabyte-scale data growth and simplifies backup and archive with Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct

Quantum Spatial Manages Massive Data Growth with Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct

Quantum Spatial, an NV5 company and North America’s largest geospatial services firm, was struggling with exploding unstructured data from sensors and image processing—often petabytes per month—spread across multiple Isilon and Dell EMC Unity sites and remote locations. Their fragmented, homegrown backup approach and limited datacenter capacity made it hard to meet SLAs, retain data per customer contracts, and give users confidence to archive older projects, while a single administrator faced mounting operational risk.

Deploying Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct as a SaaS platform gave Quantum Spatial fast, scalable backup, archive, and global file visibility into petabytes of data (searching across a petabyte in seconds and moving up to 100 TB/day). The solution freed primary NAS capacity by archiving to Azure, simplified operations so one person can manage the environment, improved compliance and recovery SLAs, and restored trust between IT and GIS teams—enabling the company to focus on projects instead of systems management.

Quantum Spatial

Carl Lucas

VP of Information Technology