Case Study: Winchester District Memorial Hospital achieves secure, effortless web app deployment and Microsoft 365 email and data protection with Barracuda Networks

Commitment to customer success drives choice of Barracuda

Winchester District Memorial Hospital, a major regional hospital in Winchester, Ontario that provides online applications and support for practitioners and clinics across multiple provinces, needed to replace Microsoft’s discontinued Unified Access Gateway. The IT team required a solution that could secure web apps in reverse‑proxy mode, integrate with Active Directory and SSO, work with SharePoint backends, and—after migrating to Microsoft 365—deliver cloud email protection and SaaS backup; several vendors failed to meet these technical requirements or to follow through during difficult configurations.

The hospital deployed Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Barracuda Email Protection, and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, with Barracuda’s engineers working hands‑on to resolve integration issues. The outcome was secure access for internal and external users, virtually effortless app deployments with no disruptive downtime (saving hundreds of thousands in IT hours), a dramatic reduction in phishing and spam, and reliable backup and recovery for Microsoft 365 data.

Winchester District Memorial Hospital

Nazer Aboobaker

IT Team Lead