PHD Virtual Aids Waterbury Hospital

PHD Virtual Technologies, Inc. announced The Waterbury Hospital, a mid-sized community and teaching hospital in Connecticut and 2013 winner of HealthCare’s Most Wired Award (an industry standard benchmark study designed to measure the level of IT adoption in US hospitals and health systems), is utilizing PHD Virtual Backup for VMware to protect critical systems.

One of those systems, Cloverleaf, is a highly-critical patient records system that spans across several interfaces to improve quality and efficiency of patient care.

Cloverleaf is an interface-engine solution that moves medical records around between different systems, so that everything is up to date, and medical staff can access real-time information about each patient. This includes information like lab results, x-rays and inventory supply levels. For backing up the data, the hospital uses 12 VMware hosts; six in production, six at co-location mirrored sites and utilizes SAN-SAN replication.

Waterbury found that PHD Virtual offered a solution to help integrate with their legacy tape offsite storage system and still protect data in a virtual environment that works well with their own system and is very cost-effective.

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“PHD Virtual has grown and improved their product to provide an efficient, cost-effective, multi-hypervisor solution, capable of backups to disk and cloud storage, instant recovery, and replication,” said George Adamo, virtual systems administrator, The Waterbury Hospital. “PHD is a dynamic company. They pay attention to what their customers are saying and where the market is going. That’s important because if companies aren’t doing that you’ll eventually have to rip out their software, and lose all the knowledge and know-how you’ve built up over the years. For example, we are very excited about the new granular Exchange and SharePoint restoration capabilities and the imminent release of backup for Hyper-V. And, just this month, we purchased ReliableDR, PHD’s latest software offering that helps automate the DR process, including testing, failover and failback. It’s great that one company can provide so much capability.”

“When a customer in healthcare comes to us with critical systems, such as patient medical records, to backup and restore at a moment’s notice, we don’t take the challenge lightly,” stated Joe Noonan, senior product manager, PHD Virtual. “With Waterbury’s Cloverleaf system tying many departments and records together, people’s lives and quality of care are at stake. We are very proud to help them protect and restore this data in their cutting-edge system of improved patient care.“