Case Study: Hopkins County Memorial Hospital achieves dramatically faster, automated backups and major time savings with ExaGrid

Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Revives Backups with ExaGrid

Hopkins County Memorial Hospital, a 100‑bed facility in Sulphur Springs, Texas, brought its IT infrastructure back in‑house after years of outsourcing to Baylor Health Care. Building a new network from scratch created the need for a reliable, low‑maintenance backup solution to replace slow, error‑prone tape backups.

The hospital chose ExaGrid with Symantec Backup Exec for its tight integration and simple setup, and saw dramatic improvements: full backups dropped from about six hours per server to under one hour, incremental backups fell from three hours to roughly 20 minutes, and staff save an estimated 1–2 hours per day. ExaGrid’s post‑process de‑duplication reduced storage needs (10:1 to 50:1), and hot‑swappable components plus responsive support increased backup reliability and eliminated tape‑related issues.

Hopkins County Memorial Hospital

Brandon Gauntt

Director of Information Services