Double-Take Solution for Healthcare

As the healthcare industry continues to leverage technology to meet
HIPPA and JAICHO regulations, it faces two key challenges; having a
disaster recovery plan in place to ensure data is protected, and
managing legacy applications that are incompatible with today’s
hardware. Double-Take Software,
a provider of continuous data protection and recovery software,
has been delivering solutions to the healthcare industry for over a
decade and offers an easy to use, streamlined suite of products to meet
the industry’s unique challenges.

HIPAA specifically requires
that entities back up their data and have an established disaster
recovery plan in place. Double-Take 5.0 removes both these burdens
from IT administrators by streamlining the replication and recovery
process and ensuring that data and applications are protected in line
with regulations. Features include:

• Full-Server Failover, which drastically reduces
  the complexity of setting up a standby system for failover and reduces
  the burden on IT administrators to continually maintain that system as
  changes and updates are made to the production server. More
  importantly, this full-server protection is hardware independent – the
  standby system does not need to be the same make, model or
  configuration and can even be virtualized to reduce the cost and
  complexity of disaster recovery.
• The Server Recovery
  Option allows customers to restore entire servers, including the
  operating system, applications and data – even to servers with
  different hardware configurations. This product combines continuous
  data replication with continuous system state protection and allows
  recovery from either the real-time image of the system or a snapshot
  image of the system from a previous point-in-time.

"As
a healthcare data repository, we use Double-Take to provide secure,
up-to-the-second protection of the servers housing our healthcare data
files. By replicating the entire server and not just the data we can
ensure that everything including the operating systems and applications
are protected," said Linda Campbell, director of IT and client services
at Smith Premier Services, a provider of online prescription benefit
management services. "Having a replicated copy of the entire production
system stored centrally and managed by the Double-Take Server Recovery
Option enables us to bring a server back online quickly in the event of
a failure. Because we can recover servers ‘on demand’ in this way, it
helps to hold down costs associated with having multiple servers at our
disaster recovery site serving as hot standby units."

Another
challenge IT administrators must face in the healthcare industry is the
need to maintain legacy applications to ensure compliance within
established industry regulations. Because Double-Take is hardware
independent, IT managers can use Double-Take to replicate the legacy
applications, migrate the information to a virtual machine, and then
continue to protect the data and applications as part of the IT
disaster recovery plan.

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Smith Premier Services