Case Study: Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber achieves 70% reduction in backup window and replaces tape with ExaGrid

Medical Center Replaces Tape with ExaGrid, Reduces Backup Window by 70%

Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber, a nonprofit community healthcare provider in Pennsylvania, struggled with a tape-based backup strategy that was high-cost, high-maintenance and error-prone while managing over 50 TB of data. Backups ran around the clock with frequent failures, manual tape retrieval, and long troubleshooting times that interfered with daily IT operations.

The center replaced tape with ExaGrid appliances (integrating with existing Veritas Backup Exec) and benefited from fast deduplication, a scalable GRID architecture, and simple installation/support. The change cut the backup window by 70%, saved roughly a month of IT time per year, reduced network load, delivered consistent successful jobs and restores, and gave the IT team greater retention flexibility and operational confidence.

Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber

Adam Stahl

Director of Information Technology