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Cloudy data outfit Rubrik has been selected by the University of Reading to protect more than 90 percent of its environment including Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange, as well as Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines.
Rubrik’s solution has already allowed the university to completely migrate off tape, archive to public cloud, and significantly speed up SQL data recovery.
The University of Reading is a research university and has been in existence for more than 150 years. Its IT team, which supports over 18,000 students and 7,000 faculty members, underpins the entire teaching experience at the university, it’s claimed.
Having been restricted by a tape-centric legacy backup and recovery solution which was unable to protect all applications, the university wanted to shift to a different set of stuff for backup and faster restore times, particularly for its user critical Microsoft Exchange environment.
Kevin Mortimer, Infrastructure Services Manager at the University of Reading, said: “Rubrik blew us away; other vendors were far too complicated. Rubrik and Nutanix have proven they can outperform other technologies—I can’t think of a better fit. Our previous solution could only backup around 10 per cent of our environment, but Rubrik now protects 90 per cent of our environment and will eventually capture everything. With its incremental-forever backups, we have considerably reduced our daily backup load and the integration with cloud couldn’t be easier.”
Martin Brown, Director of Western Europe at Rubrik, said: “As more and more UK organisations squeeze their budgets, IT departments all over the country are having to do more with less. The University of Reading needed a data management solution that could save them time and money, while delivering backups that they could rely on. With our Microsoft Azure and Nutanix integration, the University of Reading is now able to protect more than 90 percent of its environment.”
