Case Study: Nebraska Medicine achieves secure, faster EMR backups and $1M licensing savings with OpenText

Nebraska Medicine guards its data with an integrated Data Protection solution. The group uses Micro Focus® software and HPE storage to unify and enhance its backup operations

Nebraska Medicine, a large Omaha-based medical group and teaching partner to the University of Nebraska, manages more than 4 PB of critical data across three data centers—everything from electronic medical records to radiology images. Because it must retain records for many years and “never delete anything,” the organization faced slow, complex backups using three separate tools, growing data volumes (including a 250 TB radiology system), and a need for faster, more reliable access to patient information.

By consolidating onto a centrally managed platform using Micro Focus Data Protector with HPE 3PAR and StoreOnce storage, Nebraska Medicine simplified backups, cut backup windows from 24 to 12 hours, and achieved federated deduplication (over 30:1 for its largest system and average ratios above 15:1). The new architecture extended retention to 52 weeks, sped restores to 5–10 minutes (full restores in ~15), reduced storage and communication costs, freed IT resources for priority work, and is expected to save about $1 million in licensing over five years.

Nebraska Medicine

Jeff Bergholz

Manager of Technical Systems