Case Study: UC San Diego achieves instant SQL recovery and migrates to AWS S3 with Rubrik

UC San Diego Achieves Instant SQL Recovery and Migrates to AWS S3 with Rubrik

UC San Diego, a major research university supporting 30,000 students and 6,000 faculty, consolidated multiple IT groups into one department and inherited a complex, multi‑tiered backup environment. Disparate hardware and software produced management headaches, frequent alerts and failures, rising licensing and maintenance costs, and slow recoveries that hampered operations.

By adopting Rubrik’s converged data management platform with multi‑tenant controls and SQL Live Mount—and migrating long‑term archives to AWS S3—IT simplified management, enabled departmental self‑service, and accelerated recoveries. Results included ~90% faster restores (from 4+ hours to under 10 minutes), ~90% less backup management time (from ~10 hours/week to minutes), roughly $100K in annual savings from retired legacy systems, a dramatically smaller data center footprint, and a rapid migration of ~2,000 VMs to S3 in 36 hours, with CloudOn planned for stronger cloud DR.

University of California San Diego

Dave Vassall

Systems Analyst