Compeer Financial Uses Rubrik to Deliver Self-Service Access to Hybrid Cloud Resources
Key Takeaways
⇨ Streamlined IT Consolidation Post-Merger: Rubrik played a crucial role in consolidating and simplifying Compeer Financial’s IT systems following a major merger, ensuring seamless integration and efficient operations.
⇨ Enhanced Backup Efficiency and Cost Savings: By automating backups and eliminating the need for tape storage, Rubrik significantly reduced management time, improved backup frequency, and delivered substantial cost savings.
⇨ Empowered SQL Database Administrators: Rubrik’s self-service capabilities enabled Compeer’s SQL administrators to instantly restore databases, increasing agility and minimizing dependency on the IT backup team.
As one of the United States’ largest farm credit associations, Compeer Financial provides a reliable source of capital for farm operations in over 140 counties across the upper Midwest. Compeer was created in 2017 out of a merger of Agstar Financial Services, Badgerland Financial, and 1st Farm Credit Services to better meet the needs of rural America. The merger required Compeer’s IT Team to overcome numerous challenges associated with unifying three disparate IT environments. Fortunately, Compeer’s IT Operations Lead, Scott Ament, and his team purchased rubrik at AgStar a year before the merger. Rubrik streamlined Agstar’s backup processes and helped to facilitate the consolidation of the three firms’ environments following the merge into Compeer.
LEGACY BACKUP SOLUTION CANNOT KEEP PACE WITH SHIFT TO VIRTUALIZED AND HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
Prior to the merger, Ament’s team was focused on increasing virtualization and expanding into the cloud. However, Compeer’s (AgStar’s) legacy backup solution was unable to keep pace with its ambitious IT goals. “Our previous backup vendor was agent-based, and as our environment grew and became more virtualized and cloud-based, we realized we required different capabilities.” In exploring alternatives, Ament and his team faced a dilemma: other backup providers were either incapable of meeting their needs or were prohibitively expensive. “None of the other vendors felt like they had been built with virtualization or hybrid cloud in mind, and we were not confident that they would give us the agility we were looking for moving forward. They felt like band-aid fixes.”
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