Case Study: Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center cuts backup times with ExaGrid

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center cuts backup time by 6 hours with ExaGrid

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, a comprehensive cancer care facility in Louisiana, was facing significant challenges with its tape-based backup system. Their nightly backups were taking over 20 hours, which was degrading network performance and making it difficult to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations. They needed a more reliable and efficient solution to store and retrieve data, leading them to partner with vendor ExaGrid and implement its disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication.

The ExaGrid system integrated seamlessly with the center's existing Veritas Backup Exec application. The solution dramatically reduced the backup window by six hours, ensuring backups completed every night. This measurable improvement eliminated the previous network performance issues. Furthermore, ExaGrid's deduplication allowed for more data to be kept on-site and readily available, simplifying the restores required for HIPAA compliance testing and providing a path for future scalability and offsite disaster recovery.

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center