EnvisionRxOptions Selects Riverbed Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway Appliance

Riverbed
Technology, Inc. announced that EnvisionRxOptions (Envision Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.), provider of
transparent pharmacy benefits management (PBM) services, has deployed the
Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliance to support its four
locations across the US.

Moving to cloud backup with Whitewater saves EnvisionRxOptions up to 75% in
storage fees and improves the company’s archiving operations to assist with storage growth and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
compliance.

Before working with Riverbed,
EnvisionRxOptions was experiencing three different data protection and
archiving pain points:

• Archiving up to 8,000 customer and client
  calls per day was consuming expensive tier-one storage in multiple sites due to
  replication and backup policies that were creating up to four times the amount
  of the original data.
• Archiving large financial spreadsheets
  created to analyze past claims as part of new business acquisition.
• Protecting the emails stored in its Symantec
  Enterprise Vault archiving system with Backup Exec.

Overall, the company needed to manage 15TB
of data, which was growing between 30 to 50% annually and was too expensive to
replicate multiple times to its other storage sites. Furthermore, the company
required its patient health records to be maintained for 10 years, and the
company’s previous archival approach did not scale and was cumbersome and
costly.

As a result, EnvisionRxOptions turned to Champion Solutions Group to
suggest better solutions to address these challenges. It
recommended cloud backup as a way to cut storage costs
while simplifying backup processes and suggested a Whitewater cloud
storage gateway appliance and Nirvanix Inc. as the cloud provider.

"It’s
incredible how quickly we got the Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliance up
and running," said Nakul Kapadia, director of IT, at
EnvisionRxOptions. "We picked
Nirvanix from a drop down menu, entered in our credentials, and were up and
running and replicating data to the cloud in about 30 minutes. We have seen
great results and the end-to-end data security in flight and at rest with SSL
v3 and 256-bit AES encryption gives us confidence in storing our data in the
cloud and also helps satisfy our audit requirements."

The Whitewater appliance compresses WAV
files created from the customer phone calls, which results in a 50% savings in
data set sizes, reduction in cloud storage costs, and faster transmission
times. EnvisionRxOptions is seeing a deduplication ratio of up to four-to-one
for the financial analyst claims spreadsheets, which represents a 75% savings
in cloud storage fees.

Kapadia added: "This is very
significant because our data growth was far outpacing our ability to scale our
storage in our primary and secondary sites and also our ability to scale our
backup solutions."

"Whitewater
was the perfect fit for us. It’s been an efficient and successful experience,
and we couldn’t be happier with the results. We now have a very effective
archiving solution that is secure and meets our compliance requirements. Just
as important, we found a solution to our ever-growing data sets that wasn’t
feasible with on-site storage and would have been very expensive due to
replication requirements to protect this data," said Kapadia.