Case Study: University of St. Thomas achieves 90%+ management time savings and high-performance AWS migration with Rubrik

The University of St. Thomas Achieves High Performance and Migrates to AWS with Rubrik

The University of St. Thomas, a private non‑profit university in St. Paul, MN with about 10,000 full‑time students, relied on an aging, labor‑intensive backup system that frequently failed, produced slow recoveries (up to six hours or more), left RTO/RPOs undefined, and prevented cloud archival. The five‑person infrastructure team needed a more reliable, cloud‑friendly solution to protect a largely virtualized environment and reduce operational overhead.

They deployed Rubrik’s all‑in‑one data management platform and integrated it with AWS S3 for archival and future disaster recovery, enabling incremental‑forever backups, fast “Google‑like” search and CloudOn cloud recovery. The university cut backup windows from a day to about an hour, achieved 90%+ management time savings and backup performance improvements, reduced data center footprint by 40%, and can now define and meet realistic RTOs/RPOs.

University of St. Thomas

Tim Sullivan

Cloud Architect