“Rubrik allowed us to integrate seamlessly with AWS S3 and securely mobilize our applications from on-prem to cloud,” added Iraci. “With Rubrik, it only took 36 hours to migrate our entire infrastructure, around 2,000 virtual machines, into AWS S3.” Also, our legacy solution lacked a native integration so there was no clear path to getting started,” said Vassall. “If we tried archiving to the cloud, it would have taken weeks. With its previous legacy solution, UC San Diego was unable to migrate to the cloud. Traditional backup can’t do that, but Rubrik can.”ĭata archival to AWS S3 for long-term retention and future disaster recovery “To do so, you need a system that can integrate with any application or technology from the past, present, and future. We need to be able to shift on the fly,” said Iraci. Today, technology evolves extremely fast. In order to scale effectively, the team needed a single solution that was easy to use and provided automation capabilities.
Each hardware and software component required expensive upgrades while operational inefficiencies led to unnecessary costs. Complex management was accompanied by increasing licensing and maintenance costs. This resulted in a lot of extra work and wasted time troubleshooting backup failures across multiple systems,” said Dave Vassall, Systems Analyst. Our previous solution was error-prone, and we were receiving alerts and notifications from seven different products.
When the university consolidated nine groups into one centralized IT department, it resulted in a complex IT environment consisting of disparate hardware and software components. “With Rubrik, we have peace of mind that our data is protected.”Ĭhallenges Management complexity and rising costs from a multi-tiered architecture “From ensuring secure access to student’s emails, providing computer software at our research labs, or enabling a staff member to complete a purchase order, IT lives at the center of the university,” said Iraci. John Iraci, Director of Computing Infrastructure, oversees a team of 50 to manage infrastructure operations and applications.
The university has six undergraduate colleges, five academic divisions, and five graduate and professional schools.Īt the university, the 400-person IT department supports over 30,000 students and 6,000 faculty and staff. Their faculty, researchers, and alumni have received numerous awards, including 25 Nobel Prizes, three Field Medals, and two Pulitzer Prizes. With over $1 billion in annual research funding, UC San Diego is one of top 15 research universities worldwide. Founded in 1960, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) is a high-ranking public institution located in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California.