Atlanta Women's Health Group Opt for VeriStor

VeriStor Systems, Inc., a Southeast region's enterprise data storage and virtualization solution provider, announced that Atlanta Women's Health Group, an OB/GYN practice in the southeast, has selected VeriStor Cloud Continuity Services to support the data protection and DR requirements for its 30 locations across the region.

Using VeriStor's turnkey cloud services, the large health practice has achieved its goal of a one-hour RTO while avoiding heavy capital and operational expenses.

Atlanta Women's Health Group, P.C. is responsible for serving more than 100,000 patients throughout its multiple locations. This equates to over 250,000 patient visits every year, including the delivery of approximately 9,000 babies annually. The practice has 460 employees, 62 physicians, 16 midwives (CNM), 11 nurse practitioners (NP), and it continues to grow.

Over the past decade the group has added more and more physician groups to its organization. With each addition, the organization found that it had more servers to manage and more data to be protected. Because the health group maintains patient records online in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution, data availability is critical as physicians need to be able to access patients' medical records at any time.

"We were adding more and more groups and soon redundancy and DR could no longer be in the background," said Dean Underwood of Atlanta Women's Health Group. "Assuring close to 100% uptime is critical for us, especially when you are running an EMR. Entire medical histories are electronic, so our systems can't ever go down."

The group began to search for ways to assist its recovery needs. The company wanted to avoid solutions that required investing in unnecessary hardware and storage in an offsite datacenter. They then looked to VeriStor, an end-to-end virtual infrastructure and cloud solutions provider they had already trusted to architect their current infrastructure, for possible solutions.

VeriStor introduced them to its VeriStor Cloud Continuity Services solution which provides enterprise cloud replication and DR without additional hardware investment or management overhead. The solution performs enterprises data replication, on demand, and resides in a SAS-70/SSAE16-certified datacenter. The solution is turnkey for the Atlanta Women's Health Group team and is both managed and monitored by VeriStor Virtual Infrastructure and Storage engineers.

As a result, Atlanta Women's Health Group has achieved its goal of system recovery in under an hour which includes their core medical records systems, Exchange messaging, SQL databases, and Active Directory authentication services. With VeriStor's 24 x 7 network operations center (NOC) monitoring, the health group no longer needs to worry about downtime. Even more, the health group avoided the capital costs of other replication solutions and now has a reliable solution for a small investment.

"For any organization considering cloud-based replication and recovery, I say 'Go for it." said Underwood. "We now have a level of security we never thought possible with the added confidence that the knowledgeable VeriStor team is there looking over everything. In fact, they are so proactive that if I ever do see something on the network that needs attention, they are already on it. VeriStor delivered exactly what we needed."