Mississippi Baptist Health Systems Achieves Significant Cost Savings with Symantec Disaster Recovery and Records Management Solutions

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Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, one of the state's largest private general hospitals, has successfully implemented Symantec disaster recovery and records management solutions to ensure the security and accessibility of patient records. The implementation has resulted in more than $4 million in savings for the healthcare organization. The project involved a four-phase effort to overhaul and upgrade the storage infrastructure, including the consolidation of hospital data, standardization of backup operations, and the implementation of disaster recovery data center.

Key Takeaways:

  • Mississippi Baptist Health Systems (MBHS) implemented Symantec storage, backup, and archiving software to ensure patient records are secure and immediately available to doctors and medical professionals.
  • The implementation resulted in a savings of more than $4 million, achieved through backup labor productivity gains, cost avoidance, and end-user productivity gains.
  • The four-phase effort involved the consolidation of hospital data, standardization of backup operations, and the implementation of disaster recovery data center using Symantec software and services.
  • MBHS uses Symantec NetBackup, Symantec Enterprise Vault archiving software, Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability, and Symantec Business Critical Services to manage its storage infrastructure.
  • The project was completed in collaboration with Symantec and IBM, and involved the implementation of Veritas Cluster Server to provide failover capabilities during maintenance of the backup server.

Statistics:

  • MBHS had 10 terabytes of archive data in 2004, which grew to 130 terabytes in 2009.
  • The implementation saved MBHS more than $4 million through backup labor productivity gains and cost avoidance, storage solution cost avoidance, high-availability hardware cost avoidance, and end-user and IS productivity gains.
  • The project resulted in a 95% reduction in wasted storage space, allowing MBHS to store 130 terabytes of-archive data in a more efficient manner.
  • MBHS has 55 employees in its information services department, which is a centralized operation with one data center supporting the main hospital and eight outlying clinics.

Sources:

  • M2 PressWIRE, May 2010: "Symantec: Mississippi Baptist Health Systems Realizes Significant Cost Savings After Implementing Symantec Disaster Recovery and Records Management Solutions;"
  • Symantec Corporation: "Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world."