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Blessing Hospital Implements CommVault Suite to Maintain Patient Data

Posted on: Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 12:00 CDT

CommVault, a provider of data protection software, has announced that Blessing Hospital has implemented its Simpana 7.0 software. The hospital will use the software to maintain availability of critical and confidential patient data and helping staff deliver high quality and accessible healthcare.

CommVault software also helps Blessing ensure business continuity in the face of planned and unplanned downtime and comply with regulatory requirements for data retention and availability. Using innovative new features from CommVault including Single Instance Store (SIS), Blessing now boasts approximately 60% faster data recoverability since making the switch from Symantec Veritas Backup Exec.

As Blessing caters to both long-term and overnight patients, there is a constant flow of new and updated information required in order to meet Blessing's stringent patient care standards. The hospital's reliance on 24/7 accessibility to patient information makes high availability of systems and data a top priority.

Blessing had been conducting staggered full backups with the incremental on alternate nights, but this backup strategy still could not fit in required backup windows and left the IT department with zero planned down time for upgrades or maintenance. While an expanded 25 terabyte San and disk-to-disk solution helped ease some of the performance issues, ensuring system and data availability continued to be a concern as the backup software regularly crashed backups.

As the existing backup software approached end of life, Blessing faced a forklift upgrade decision that would require uninstalling its current version and then reinstalling a newer version, further impacting its ability to maintain high data availability.

Source: Datamonitor

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