Case Study: VITAS Healthcare achieves 90% reduction in backup time with Cohesity

VITAS Healthcare Reduces Time Spent on Onsite and Cloud Backup by 90%

VITAS Healthcare, a national leader in end-of-life care, needed to meet strict data-retention and fast-recovery requirements for patient charts but was hampered by legacy backup tools that were slow, resource-intensive and difficult to manage. Routine EMR backups could take days and required constant “babysitting,” incremental backups were unreliable, and complex licensing and upgrades strained IT staff.

By adopting Cohesity DataProtect and SmartFiles across its VMware and Microsoft SQL environments, VITAS simplified onsite and cloud backup, enabled self-service restores, and offloaded images from databases to object storage. The result: weekly backup management time dropped by 90% (to under two hours), backup policies were reduced by 80% (from ~60 to 10), database backup size fell from 4 TB to under 1 TB, and the organization gained faster recoveries and stronger ransomware detection.

VITAS Healthcare

Ainsworth Palmer

AVP IT Infrastructure