Case Study: Children’s Hospital Central California reduces backup time and storage costs with BridgeHead Software

Children’s Hospital Central California - Customer Case Study

Children’s Hospital Central California, a large not-for-profit pediatric hospital in Madera, CA, needed a new data management approach as it migrated from EMC storage to a NetApp environment and fully virtualized its MEDITECH workload. The hospital also needed backup software that could work across a complex multi-server MEDITECH setup, integrate with NetApp storage, and support cloud-enabled VMware infrastructure. BridgeHead Software’s Healthcare Data Management platform, including MEDITECH backup capabilities, was selected to meet these requirements.

BridgeHead Software implemented a solution that orchestrates MEDITECH quiescing with NetApp snapshots and mirrors, ensuring coherent backups while the hospital’s systems continue running. The result was a major improvement in protection efficiency: Children’s reduced its backup window from four hours to every five minutes, increased backup frequency, lowered storage usage and administrative burden, and improved recovery point objectives for MEDITECH data.

Children’s Hospital Central California

Brian Welch

Senior Networking Engineer