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Alliance Community Hospital Removes Backup Pain with BridgeHead Software

Replacing legacy backup software with enterprise data protection “that just works.”

Mission
Alliance Community Hospital is a non-profit institution serving Alliance, Ohio with holistic, compassionate healthcare.

Location
Located in Alliance, Ohio and serving its residents and those in surrounding communities.

Size
Licensed for 204 beds including 78 nursing home/transitional care beds in their Community Care Center.

IT Infrastructure
MEDITECH server systems and Microsoft applications running attached to an EMC SAN with 29TB of data under management.

Critical Challenge
Upgrading to an enterprise data management solution for all of their critical data.

 
 
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Key Concern
“We needed a single backup solution, with a single reporting system, across all of our critical data—MEDITECH and Microsoft.”

Problem Solved
BridgeHead Software’s backup software provides a single enterprise data management system for Microsoft applications and file systems, along with exclusive API-based integration with MEDITECH systems (ISB/IDR), to provide seamless protection across all critical data at Alliance.

Why BridgeHead
BridgeHead Software is the leading provider of backup, recovery and archive software for healthcare institutions. The company’s strong offerings include a unique backup and recovery system for MEDITECH and a general PACS archive which unites PACS systems data. With over 300 customers serving 1000 individual hospital sites worldwide BridgeHead leads the field in Healthcare Data Management.

Partnering Value
BridgeHead Software works with key industry distributors and exclusively through Value-Added Reseller (VAR) organizations to provide customers with trusted advisors that can bring them best in breed healthcare data protection solutions.

Operational Experience
BridgeHead Software unifies the data protection environment at Alliance, seamlessly working with EMC CX storage in a SAN to automate and manage tiered data copies including snapshot volumes, full replica volumes across the network, and tape for all critical data.

Business Results
Alliance clinical workers now have little to no interruption in their use of MEDITECH systems during backup, along with lowered burden on Alliance IT operators responsible for managing backup and recovery—“Before BridgeHead, our operations team usually spent their weekends loading tapes and babysitting backup. BridgeHead has given us our lives back on the weekends.”
 
 
 
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