Case Study: Baldwin Park Unified School District achieves 30% TCO savings and instant recovery with Rubrik

Rubrik Enables Baldwin Park Unified School District to Pivot Quickly Amidst Pandemic and Adopt Microsoft Azure

Baldwin Park Unified School District (BPUSD) serves 13,600 students across 28 sites in the San Gabriel Valley. IT faced slow, costly, and complex backup processes—relying on tape libraries and two separate appliances that caused days‑to‑weeks recoveries, double licensing fees, heavy daily maintenance, limited cloud adoption, and the need to protect long‑term, sensitive records (HIPAA, SSNs, public‑records retention).

BPUSD deployed Rubrik with Microsoft Azure integration to create a single, policy‑driven data management plane, simplifying operations and accelerating its cloud and VDI initiatives—critical during the pandemic remote‑learning surge. The result: 30% TCO savings (over $20K/year), 65 days of annual productivity returned, near‑zero RTOs with restores in about two minutes, an 80% reduction in data‑center footprint (10U to 2U), stronger ransomware protection, and support for future Office 365 backups.

Baldwin Park Unified School District

Manny Sanchez

IT Infrastructure Systems Manager