Case Study: Novato Unified School District achieves ransomware protection, instant restores, and 85% TCO savings with Rubrik

Rubrik Earns High Marks for Delivering Ransomware Protection and Automation to Novato Unified School District

Novato Unified School District (NUSD), serving 7,500 students across 16 schools in Marin County, lacked a disaster recovery plan and relied on a manual, error-prone backup process that left critical student and financial data vulnerable to ransomware and potential multi-day outages.

NUSD deployed Rubrik with Wasabi cloud storage to automate backups, enforce immutability against ransomware, and simplify restores. The plug-and-play solution cut restore times from days to minutes, reduced VMs from 80 to 18, delivered an estimated 85% TCO savings over five years, and provided the district with reliable, hands-off protection and responsive vendor support.

Novato Unified School District

Amir Kioumars

Data Systems Supervisor