Case Study: Licking Memorial Hospital halves backup window and speeds restores with ExaGrid

Hospital Uses ExaGrid to Shorten Backup Window, Speed Restores

Licking Memorial Health Systems, a 227‑bed hospital in Licking County, Ohio, faced growing IT challenges: nightly backups routinely exceeded the 24‑hour window and restores were slow and tape‑dependent, often requiring a day to retrieve data and respond to users.

The hospital installed two ExaGrid EX10000 disk‑based backup appliances with post‑process deduplication and nightly replication via Symantec Backup Exec. Backups were cut from 24 to 12 hours, restores became immediate without tape retrieval, and deduplication reduced storage needs and WAN bandwidth; the system proved easy to install, scalable, and supported by responsive customer service.

Licking Memorial

John Bowyer

Senior System Analyst