Case Study: The Scottish Government achieves 33% TCO savings and end-to-end data security with Rubrik

The Scottish Government Reduces Costs and Ensures Data Security with End-to-End Encryption

The Agriculture and Rural Economy (ARE) Directorate of the Scottish Government, based in Edinburgh, manages payments and compliance for over 20,000 farmers and £750m in annual subsidies, supported by a 1,300‑person IT organization. ARE faced a fragmented, multi‑point legacy backup environment that couldn’t scale with growing data, made management and compliance cumbersome, and lacked guaranteed end‑to‑end encryption.

By moving to Rubrik’s single data‑management platform ARE centralized protection with built‑in end‑to‑end encryption, audit trails, instant recovery, AWS S3 cloud integration, RESTful APIs and policy‑based automation. The change delivered measurable benefits: 33% TCO savings, 60% management time savings, 6× faster backups, 79% data reduction and near‑zero RTOs, while simplifying audits and accelerating cloud adoption.

The Scottish Government

Neill Smith

Head of IT Infrastructure