Case Study: Path Forward IT achieves sub-10-minute EHR restores and up to 70% lower TCO with Cohesity-Powered Managed Backup as a Service

Path Forward IT speeds EHR recovery time while lowering TCO, with Cohesity-Powered backup as a service

Path Forward IT is a managed services provider that runs Patient Shield, a HIPAA‑compliant backup and restore service for healthcare providers. Confronted with strict data‑protection requirements, tight budgets, and zero tolerance for EHR downtime, the company needed much faster restores, flexible local/cloud retention options, and stronger ransomware defenses.

Path Forward IT replaced its legacy platform with Cohesity‑powered managed backup as a service, adding immutable backups, multi‑tier retention, and rapid restore capabilities—10 TB of EHR data in under 10 minutes. The switch lowered Path Forward IT’s TCO by about 70%, cut customer costs by roughly 75%, reduced onboarding time to two weeks for standard deployments (35% faster for complex ones), and now protects 2 PB for 50 customers.

Path Forward IT

Adam Brock

Senior Director for Data Protection