Practicing Data Protection
Cooper University Hospital, a renowned teaching hospital and premier healthcare provider headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, chose to move to a new data backup system when pressure for high information availability in the healthcare industry began to increase. Cooper chose to move from tape backups to an innovative on-demand disk solution for backup from IPR International. IPR’s DataGuardianSM On Demand reduces data backup time and allows for 24x7 access to all backed up files and folders with a simple point-&-click. Cooper has tested the system for mass data recovery situations and individual file retrieval. The results show a reliable and verifiable disaster recovery system that provides a higher level of confidence for auditing for compliance under regulations such as HIPAA. With the IPR solution in place, Cooper’s IT department can devote more time to strategic initiatives rather than to resolving end-user issues with data loss.
Cooper University Hospital Today
- Cooper backs up more than 200 applications on 10 platforms and 90 servers, and 1,500 gigabytes on average with the DataGuardian On Demand solution
- All data is encrypted and stored at two off-site locations
- Backups are automatic—files can be recovered in seconds or minutes, and servers can be recovered within hours
- IT staff now monitors data backups nearly in real-time rather than scrolling through backup logs after the fact
- DataGuardian provides an auditable backup and recovery process that plays a key role in compliance
“I was skeptical when we first heard about online, electronic backup, but also willing to listen because of our growing need for a new data backup solution. Legal pressures, particularly around HIPAA, have forced us to demonstrate that we can ensure privacy of patient data and, needless to say, as a teaching university hospital with over 40 clinics serving a large part of the population in southern New Jersey, it was imperative that we be able to recover information quickly and completely. IPR even accompanies us during disaster recovery tests. I am confident that tests will go smoothly, in large part because of IPR’s DataGuardian solution. It used to take up to 40 hours to recover the email system, now recovery is near-instantaneous. IPR and Cooper are in a true partnership. The speed-to-value with IPR has been phenomenal, and I believe Cooper Hospital is well ahead of many other healthcare facilities still backing up data to tape.”
— Karen Graham
AVP and CIO, Cooper University Hospital
