Case Study: Dayton Children's Hospital achieves 9 years of pain-free, foolproof data protection with STORServer

Dayton Children’s Hospital - Customer Case Study

Dayton Children’s Hospital, a 155‑bed pediatric center in Ohio treating hundreds of thousands of children annually, faced manual, tape‑based backups and recurring capacity constraints that left IT staff spending hours a day managing restores and risking protection for critical systems (including EPIC and refrigeration temperature monitoring for medications). The hospital needed an automated, scalable solution to protect growing data and ensure uninterrupted clinical operations.

They deployed STORServer appliances powered by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with the STORServer Console, migrating to a new appliance in under 48 hours and bringing backups online the next day. The result: nine years of zero data loss for STORServer‑protected systems, much faster backups, easy capacity expansion (add disk shelves), and a drop in backup administration from hours per day to minutes per week—improving reliability and user satisfaction across clinical staff.

Dayton Children’s Hospital

Jennifer Lucas

Network Analyst