Case Study: Riverside Healthcare achieves 70% faster Epic backups and 50x data reduction with Cohesity

Riverside Healthcare Selects Cohesity for Data Management with Epic EHR

Riverside Healthcare, a fully integrated Illinois health system operating a 300‑bed Level II trauma center and 90% virtualized infrastructure, needed a more reliable, scalable backup for its Epic EHR and other critical systems. Its prior Commvault deployment had become costly, fragile, and dependent on a single administrator, while strict HIPAA retention requirements and tight backup windows made efficient, HPE‑integrated backup and recovery essential.

After a six‑month PoC Riverside deployed Cohesity DataProtect and DataPlatform to protect more than 3PB of data, consolidating backups into a single appliance and achieving over 50× data reduction. The solution cut backup and restore times by about 70% (full EHR backups now under three hours), restored nearly 3TB in under four hours, reduced TCO by ~30%, simplified management, enabled fast granular restores and VM recoveries, and set the organization up for future Exchange backups and cloud archival.

Riverside Healthcare

Troy Cailteux

System Administrator