Hospital backups 'slashed by ExaGrid'
28 Feb 2008
Deploying ExaGrid has helped one hospital to significantly reduce the length of time taken to back up its sensitive data, it has been revealed.
Medina General Hospital in Ohio undertakes a weekly complete backup of its stored files, which previously took up to 12 hours per cycle - with extra time taken if bad tapes were detected during the process.
After implementing ExaGrid, however, the full backup has been reduced to about four hours, while daily differential restore points are set, with each requiring about 20 minutes to establish which files must be stored in a newer form.
By detecting only the files which have changed since the last backup, ExaGrid stores only the data required to restore these - meaning the disk space needed may be reduced by between ten and 50 times.
Michael Skrant, management information system operations supervisor at the healthcare facility, explains that this deduplication is one of the core functions offered by ExaGrid which has helped to accelerate the process, as well as increase the number of different restore points saved.
In a financial update published earlier this year, ExaGrid reported record sales during the three-month period leading up to the end of 2007.
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