Case Study: Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network achieves 5-minute ransomware recovery with Barracuda Networks

Better backup lets healthcare provider shrug off criminal attack

Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network, a primary care medical group supporting 420 physicians and nearly 400,000 patients in northwest Calgary, faced an urgent need to replace an inefficient, insecure tape-based Veeam backup system while meeting Canadian healthcare data-privacy rules and automating Office 365 backups.

They deployed a Barracuda Backup 890 appliance with virtual backups for VMware and Cloud-to-Cloud Backup for Office 365, self-installing with minimal phone support. The new solution enabled a full recovery from a ransomware attack in under five minutes, cut 1–2 hours of daily backup labor, and delivered encrypted, reliable backups and greater peace of mind for patient data.

Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network

Thayer Ramahi

Director of IMIT