Case Study: Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center achieves faster nightly backups and streamlined HIPAA compliance with ExaGrid

ExaGrid Helps Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Care Center Cut Backup Times, Meet HIPAA Regulations More Efficiently

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Care Center, a five-location radiation therapy provider in Baton Rouge with the largest medical physics team in Louisiana, was struggling with nightly tape backups of more than 2TB that often ran over 20 hours. Long backup windows degraded network performance and made it difficult to meet HIPAA requirements for timely restores and test recoveries.

The center deployed an ExaGrid disk-based backup system with post-process deduplication alongside Symantec Backup Exec, cutting nightly differential backups by six hours and enabling reliable, on-site restores without tape. The solution improved performance, simplified HIPAA test restores, is easy to manage with strong vendor support, and can be scaled or replicated offsite to further enhance disaster recovery.

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center

Kevin Walker

Network Administrator