Graybill Medical Group, New Customer for Overland

Overland Storage, Inc.
announced that Graybill Medical Group, one of the largest providers of
primary medical care in San Diego County, has deployed the REO 9100
disk-based backup, recovery and virtual tape library (VTL) appliance as
well as the NEO 2000 scalable tape library. Overland’s tiered data
protection offerings are the foundation of a highly reliable and
scalable disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery solution that
has reduced Graybill’s backup window by 50 percent while lowering
administrative overhead from seven hours a week to less than one hour.

 
For
more than 75 years, Graybill Medical Group has been providing
responsive, top-quality patient care to families in the Escondido,
Calif., area. As the largest primary care medical group in the
vicinity, Graybill accommodates more than 129,000 office visits
annually at its three locations. As one of the most technically
advanced healthcare facilities in southern California, Graybill
embraced a leading-edge electronic medical records (EMR) solution as
part of a decision to migrate to a paperless environment.

According
to Forest Hudson, information systems manager at Graybill Medical
Group, the EMR system had an immediate impact on the group’s technology
foundation, with storage doubling over a three-to-six month period.
Additionally, the group’s requirements for protecting the influx of
medical records rose dramatically, creating expanded backup
requirements. Full nightly backups became arduous and time consuming,
often exceeding the allowable backup window while also requiring manual
intervention to swap out tapes.

To
keep pace with ever-increasing backup requirements, Graybill sought a
complementary disk- and tape-based solution, ultimately choosing
Overland’s REO 9100 disk-based appliance and NEO 2000 tape library.
“REO’s ‘set it and forget it’ operation means less time working on
backups while NEO gives us an eight-fold capacity increase to scale our
data archive as needed,” says Hudson. “Overland’s tiered disk and tape
data protection blends best-of-class features, automation and
performance to match our continuing focus on world-class patient care.”

In
October 2007, Graybill Medical Group shut down several of its offices
when wildfires raging throughout San Diego’s North County forced
widespread evacuation. Fortunately, Overland’s tiered backup approach
provided an additional layer of protection as an employee was able to
take a full backup to an offsite disaster recovery location while
remaining backups were performed automatically, without requiring
manual intervention. In the near future, Graybill will undergo a
full-scale deployment of an all-digital Picture Archiving
Communications System (PACS), which will be easily accommodated by its
existing Overland REO and NEO data protection foundation.

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