Mary Rutan Hospital Expands BridgeHead Healthcare Data Management

BridgeHead Software Ltd announced that Mary Rutan Hospital in Bellefontaine, OH is expanding its environment with the addition of BridgeHead Deduplication for backup and recovery along with BridgeHead Enterprise Backup.

BridgeHead Deduplication integrates HP StoreOnce Catalyst software as part of its Healthcare Data Management (HDM) platform. A BridgeHead customer since 2012, Mary Rutan hospital had previously deployed BridgeHead ISB/IDR to protect its Meditech data.

A 100-bed facility offering a range of services, Mary Rutan Hospital serves Logan County Ohio with a constant dedication to the mission of ‘providing progressive quality health care with a personal touch.’ In addition to its main location, Mary Rutan Hospital operates the Ewing H. Crawfis Imaging Center, the Mary Rutan Hospital Physical Rehabilitation Center, the Ewing Crawfis Oncology Clinic and several physician practices.

The hospital decided to add BridgeHead’s Deduplication and Enterprise Backup capabilities as part of a long-term cost savings strategy.

Over next three to five years, Mary Rutan Hospital expects to achieve
following with its expanded BridgeHead HDM Solution:

• Cut long-term storage costs by 50 to 70%;
• Shrink backup storage by a factor of 10 to one;
• Streamline enterprise SQL, Exchange and VM backup into a single solution;
• Strategically position environment to incorporate secondary off-site storage; and
• Improve RTO for remote business continuance.

“We expect BridgeHead Deduplication to deliver huge long-term cost-savings advantages to our hospital,” said Robert Reynolds, IT director, Mary Rutan Hospital. “Using BridgeHead’s Virtual StoreOnce Appliance (VSA) implementation provides an extremely cost-effective solution as compared with VTL device alternatives, plus it lets us combine it with our existing storage without being locked in to a single storage vendor. We’d already had the goal of unifying our backup to include our enterprise applications along with MEDITECH; when we learned about the VSA approach then the cost-savings benefits were compounded. What we expect now, is that BridgeHead will help us to cut our long-term storage costs by 50 to 70% over the next three to five years.“

“Mary Rutan Hospital is a good example of the type of hospital that we had in mind when we introduced BridgeHead deduplication in late 2013,” said Tony Cotterill, EVP and chief products officer, BridgeHead. “They have received good benefit from BridgeHead for backup of Meditech data, and they were already interested in our enterprise capabilities as a way to consolidate their backup across the hospital and eliminate point-products. The additional benefit of our deduplication will enable that consolidated approach to accelerate cost savings and rapidly pay for itself.“