Case Study: University of Reading achieves 90% faster SQL restores and 75% less management time with Rubrik

The University of Reading Chooses Rubrik for Fast SQL Recovery and Integration with Nutanix AHV and Microsoft Azure

The University of Reading, a top UK research university supporting about 18,000 students and 7,000 staff, was hampered by a tape-centric backup system that was slow, unreliable and unable to protect key applications. Full backups could take over a week, restores were difficult and time-consuming, and managing on‑ and offsite tapes consumed significant IT staff effort.

The university deployed Rubrik, which integrates with Nutanix AHV and Microsoft Azure to provide policy-driven, incremental-forever backups, global search and automated archiving to cloud. The change delivered dramatic results: MS SQL restores went from days (a week) to ~30 seconds (90% faster), management time dropped by about 75% (from ~4 hours/day to <1), data was reduced by ~60%, and the campus migrated off tape while protecting roughly 90% of its environment.

University of Reading

Kevin Mortimer

Infrastructure Services Manager