Case Study: Allina Health achieves >99.9% backup success and faster restores with Commvault

Allina Health embraces flexible data protection through comprehensive backup solution with Commvault

Allina Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in Minneapolis with 29,000+ employees, 6,000 physicians, 11 hospitals and 90+ clinics, struggled to protect a sprawling digital environment that included 1.7 PB of front-end data, 2,000+ servers, a 75 TB Epic EMR and a 900 TB PACS. Backups were inconsistent and often could not complete within a day, licensing renewals required months of effort, and unreliable vendor support increased the risk of data loss and operational overhead.

Allina implemented Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery with HyperScale, snapshot management and the Commvault Enterprise Support Program to enable agile, granular restores and faster snapshot-based protection across multi‑vendor storage. Results included >99.9% backup success over five years, 90%+ deduplication for Epic, same‑day protection for massive databases and PACS, reduced storage via dedupe/compression, and a vastly improved, proactive support experience.

Allina Health

Greg Robinson

Senior Systems Engineer