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Customer Success Story

Customer Success Story

Japanese Hospital Chooses ExaGrid for the Most Comprehensive Security

 

Matsumoto Kyoritsu Hospital was formerly known as Matsumoto Clinic, which was created by working people. Since its opening in 1981, with the guidance of local residents and neighboring medical institutions, it has grown into a hospital with 199 beds providing acute care.

The hospital’s philosophy is “Medical care that anyone can receive with peace of mind, anytime, anywhere,” and as a community-based acute care hospital, the organization strives to improve the quality of medical care and enhance team medical care in order to provide safe, secure, and trustworthy medical and welfare services.

Key Benefits:

  • ExaGrid is the only backup storage solution with a tiered air gap for ransomware recovery
  • Data deduplication key to keeping long-term retention cost-efficient
  • Scale-out architecture helps with planning for future growth
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"We researched the available backup storage solutions in the market and we had trouble finding any that offered strong security features until we found ExaGrid."

Eiji Shirakawa, Manager of IT

ExaGrid Chosen for its Strong Security Features and Ransomware Recovery

When Eiji Shirakawa started as Manager of IT for Matsumoto Kyoritsu Hospital, the organization was using Veritas Backup Exec to back up its data to standard disk storage. Shirakawa San was concerned with the growing number of ransomware attacks that the healthcare industry faced and decided to take a proactive approach by strengthening the hospital’s data protection.

He searched for a backup solution that offered comprehensive security and a more secure architecture with an air gap, and decided to switch to ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage. “We researched the available backup storage solutions in the market and we had trouble finding any that offered strong security features until we found ExaGrid. Security features are very important to our executive team, and we like ExaGrid’s two-tier architecture as it is the only one that features an air gap as well as immutable data objects and that it enables ransomware recovery,” said Shirakawa San.

The hospital’s IT team was impressed with a demo of the ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage solution and its Retention Time-Lock feature and decided to install it in the hospital’s IT environment to use with a new backup application, Arcserve UDP.

ExaGrid appliances have a network-facing disk-cache Landing  Zone where the most recent backups are stored in an undeduplicated format for fast backup and restore performance. Data is deduplicated into a non-network-facing tier called the Repository Tier, for longer-term retention. ExaGrid’s unique architecture and features provide comprehensive security including Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery (RTL), and through the combination of a non-network-facing tier (tiered air gap), a delayed delete policy, and immutable data objects, backup data is protected from being deleted or encrypted. ExaGrid’s offline tier is ready for recovery in the event of an attack.

Data Deduplication Key for Managing Medical Data

Shirakawa San backs up the hospital data on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, keeping more than six months of retention in order to have many restore points if data needs to be recovered. He has been pleased with the deduplication that ExaGrid provides, which offers storage savings.

“As a hospital, we back up a lot of medical data, and some of the medical files such as x-rays and other imaging files can be very large, so data deduplication and compression are very important to using our storage more efficiently, so it can be more cost effective,” he said.

ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).

ExaGrid’s Scale-out Architecture Important for Future Data Growth

Shirakawa San expects the hospital’s data to grow as time goes on, and plans to utilize ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture to add appliances to the current ExaGrid system to accommodate the data growth.

ExaGrid appliances contain not just disk but also processing power, memory, and bandwidth. When the system needs to expand, additional appliances are simply added to the existing system. The system scales linearly, maintaining a fixed-length backup window as data grows so customers only pay for what they need, when they need it.

Data is deduplicated into a non-network-facing repository tier with automatic load balancing and global deduplication across all repositories.

Solving the Problems of Backup Permanently

ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage helps IT organizations solve the most pressing backup storage issues they face today: how to keep backups in the backup window with extremely fast backups, how to restore quickly for user productivity, how to scale as data grows, how to ensure recovery after a ransomware event, and how to lower backup storage costs up front and over time.

ExaGrid does this by ensuring that its solutions address some fundamental requirements:

  • using a unique disk-cache Landing Zone provides the shortest possible backup window that is 3X faster than other solutions
  • by keeping the most recent backups in an un-deduplicated form, making it quick and easy to restore or recover data – up to 20X faster than competing systems
  • using scale-out storage to ensure a fixed-length backup window as data grows

ExaGrid and Arcserve UDP

Arcserve UDP delivers reliable, enterprise-class data protection across multiple hardware and software platforms. Its proven technology — unified by a single, easy-to-use interface — enables multi-tiered protection driven by business goals and policies.  Together, Arcserve and ExaGrid provide a cost-effective backup solution that scales to meet the needs of demanding enterprise environments.

About ExaGrid

ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone that enables fastest backups and restores, a Repository Tier that offers the lowest cost for long-term retention and enables ransomware recovery, and scale-out architecture which includes full appliances with up to 6PB full backup in a single system.

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