Case Study: Sitrin Health Care achieves dramatically faster, more reliable backups and 40:1–50:1 storage reduction with ExaGrid

With Tape Backup on Life Support, Sitrin Health Care Turns to ExaGrid to Improve Backup Operations

Sitrin Health Care, a New Hartford, NY rehabilitation and long-term care provider, was struggling with slow, unreliable nightly tape backups managed through Symantec Backup Exec. Backups routinely took eight to ten hours, frequently failed, and required five to six hours weekly of manual tape administration, creating operational risk for a 24/7 healthcare environment.

Sitrin deployed ExaGrid’s disk-based backup with post-process deduplication—integrating with their existing Backup Exec setup—which reduced backup windows to about one to two hours, cut disk storage by roughly 40:1–50:1, and lowered backup administration time by over 75% (saving about four to five hours per week). The solution proved scalable, reliable, and required minimal changes to their prior backup infrastructure.

Sitrin Health Care

Robert Williams

Information Systems Associate