Case Study: BroMenn Healthcare achieves fast, seamless data recovery and eliminates tape headaches with ExaGrid

BroMenn Healthcare Eliminates Backup Pain with ExaGrid

BroMenn Healthcare, a century-old health system serving eight counties in central Illinois, was struggling with a tape-based backup workflow that staged backups to disk then copied to offsite tape. IT staff spent hours each week managing tape libraries and end-users often waited days for restores—an incident during a critical finance month-end process made it clear they needed to eliminate tape costs and speed recoveries by moving to disk backup with deduplication.

BroMenn implemented ExaGrid with CommVault Simpana and a second ExaGrid for DR 35 miles away. ExaGrid’s post-process deduplication and “landing zone” keep the most recent backup full on disk, delivering backups as fast (or faster) than before and replicating only changes across the WAN. The result: seamless point-and-click restores, several hundred saved man-hours in tape administration, reduced tape media expense, faster disaster recovery, scalable GRID growth, and strong vendor support.

BroMenn Healthcare

Scott Hargus

IT Manager, BroMenn Healthcare