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."