Case Study: Faith Regional Health Services achieves limitless capacity, 260% cost savings & rapid disaster recovery with Nasuni

Limitless Capacity, Cost Savings & Rapid DR for a Growing Hospital

Faith Regional Health Services, a fast-growing Midwestern hospital system serving about 150,000 patients across 13 counties, was struggling with limited SAN capacity and rising volumes of PACS images, videos and other unstructured clinical data. Its existing backup and disaster‑recovery processes were slow and vulnerable to ransomware, and the organization needed a HIPAA‑compliant, scalable solution that would protect patient data and support continued growth.

Faith Regional implemented Nasuni UniFS with Microsoft Azure in a hybrid model—storing gold copies in Azure object storage while Nasuni edge appliances cache active files locally and use existing CIFS/NFS and Active Directory access. The deployment delivered virtually unlimited capacity, Continuous File Versioning for rapid ransomware rollback, geo‑redundant DR in minutes, an 80% reduction in on‑premises storage hardware, elimination of roughly $20K in annual backup costs, and projected cost improvements of 260% over three years while maintaining HIPAA‑grade encryption with keys held by the hospital.

Faith Regional Health Services

Paul Feilmeier

IT Infrastructure Manager