White River Health System

Case Study
White River Health System,
a medical facility in Arkansas,
counts 1,500 active users in
multiple centers; its 235-bed,
acute-care hospital, a 25-bed
critical access hospital and
20 physician practice clinics.
The IT team decided to
address problems in the
software it used for
nightly backups.
Challenge
Unreliable backup is as bad as no backup
“We used several dierent products for server
and app backups,” says Danny Kelley, director
of Information Systems at White River Health
System. “We had been looking for three main
features in an enterprise solution; easier
backup management, unification into a
single point of storage and a transfer of
knowledge so we could cross-train several
users in our department.”
White River replaced aging hardware with
HPE 3PAR V400 Storage System and HPE
StoreOnce 4420 Backup appliances. During
the refresh, White River’s long-term problems
with nightly backups came up for discussion.
White River Health System
increases backup reliability
with less eort
HPE Data Protector reduces backup from over
four hours per week to 20 minutes
Objective
White River Health System needed to
increase backup reliability while
reducing eort
Approach
IT team contacted HPE Big Data provider
Alphaworks about replacing existing
servers and software
IT Matters
• Uses hardware deduplication to
decrease space needed for backups
• Backs up servers as well as
PC workstations
• Summarizes backup status with simple
email report each day
Business Matters
• Saves IT team hours per week in
administration and troubleshooting
• Deployed enterprise backup solution
from concept to completion in less than
one month
• Results in faster implementation from
single point of contact