Healthcare Organizations Turn to CommVault to Heal Their Data and Information Management Pains

--  CommVault today announced that forward-looking healthcare institutions,

        including Cambridge Health Alliance, Huntington Memorial Hospital,

        Kelsey-Seybold Clinic and Tampa General Hospital are standardizing on

        Simpana® software to enhance the quality of patient care by improving

        access to information while lowering data management costs and

        mitigating business and compliance risks

    --  The healthcare industry is not immune to the challenge of managing an

        ever-increasing amount of data.  Several healthcare IT initiatives, such

        as electronic medical records, health information exchanges and the

        implementation of solutions in support of meaningful use, that are now

        underway will generate volumes of critical healthcare data.  This not

        only exacerbates healthcare data management challenges but also places

        organizations at great financial and compliance risks.

    --  On Feb. 1, CommVault unveiled next-generation Singular Information

        Management® innovations to its Simpana software.  These new

        advancements further empower healthcare IT organizations to simplify the

        management, protection and visibility into vital patient information

        across clinical, operational, virtual and imaging environments as well

        as edge devices.

    --  CommVault is seeing increased adoption of Simpana software in the

        healthcare market and counts major healthcare institutions, integrated

        delivery networks, regional health centers and outpatient facilities as

        its customers.

    --  Healthcare organizations can purchase Simpana software directly from

        CommVault or through its network of healthcare ISV, reseller, strategic

        technology partners and group purchasing organizations.

--  Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is an integrated health system serving

        Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston's metro-north communities.  With more

        than 30 clinical locations, including 15 primary care practices and 20

        specialty centers, both in the community and at its three hospital

        campuses, these sites offer a wide range of care such as innovative

        planned care programs for chronic disease, nationally-renowned

        behavioral health services, and more than 100,000 annual emergency

        visits.  CHA also has a state-of-the-art electronic medical record

        system that coordinates care wherever patients touch its network.  As a

        result, CHA was recognized by SDI in 2010 and 2011 as one of the Top 100

        Most Integrated Healthcare Networks in the nation.

    --  CHA has been a CommVault customer for the last 10 years initially using

        Simpana software for data management in both its Meditech and Exchange

        environments.  The need to consolidate four legacy backup solutions that

        required significant administration and maintenance prompted CHA to

        embrace Simpana software as its enterprise-wide data and information

        management solution.  Today, Simpana software helps CHA centrally manage

        over 100 business and clinical applications including Meditech, Epic and

        McKesson.

    --  "The overarching value of adopting Simpana software across our

        enterprise can be measured in the efficiencies gained, the costs saved

        and the high-degree of assurance that every aspect of our data is

        protected and readily accessible which further enhances patient care

        delivery," said Dan Doherty, director of IT systems operations at

        Cambridge Health Alliance.  "Simpana software has delivered significant

        benefits by reducing our storage costs particularly in being able to

        backup archived PACS images in our McKesson system to a cheaper SAN.  In

        addition, Simpana software's deduplication capability allowed us to

        eliminate redundant data and shorten our backup window."

--  Huntington Memorial Hospital is a 626-bed not-for-profit hospital that

        is home to the only trauma center in San Gabriel Valley, Calif. 

        Renowned for its programs in neurosciences, cardiovascular services and

        cancer care, Huntington Hospital is an active teaching hospital with

        Graduate Medical Education programs in internal medicine and general

        surgery.  In 2011, the hospital was granted Magnet status and named a

        Best Hospital (regional) by U.S. News and World Report in ten

        specialties.

    --  Huntington Memorial Hospital relies on Simpana software to manage,

        protect and access data across its physical and virtual environments

        running a mix of 150 operational applications and 100 clinical

        applications which include Meditech, GE Centricity, McKesson PACS and

        Meditech LSS.

    --  "Simpana software consistently works, giving us the confidence that our

        critical patient information is protected to help us meet various

        retention requirements and ensure compliance with healthcare

        regulations," said Henry Jenkins, director of information services at

        Huntington Memorial Hospital.  "In addition, our partnership with

        CommVault will allow us to effectively address our future data and

        information management needs related to cloud computing and eDiscovery."

--  Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is Houston's first and longest standing

        Accountable Care Organization. Kelsey-Seybold is home to more than 370

        physicians providing more than 50 medical specialties throughout a

        network of 20 Houston-area clinics.

    --  The IT team at Kelsey-Seybold supports a combination of physical and

        virtual servers (AIX, Windows, and VMware) in a complex data center

        environment to support the Epic Systems EMR as well as numerous

        clinical, business, and messaging applications. After experiencing

        unreliable backup and recovery using multiple legacy solutions,

        Kelsey-Seybold switched to Simpana software.

    --  "Simpana software beats other competitive products when it comes to

        user-friendly operation.  CommVault's single pane of glass management

        provides a simple yet powerful way to manage and protect siloed data in

        our heterogeneous IT environment which helps improve the level of

        patient care," said Chris Breaux, manager of information technology

        systems at Kelsey-Seybold.  "The integrated archive capability in

        Simpana software also helps us curb the growth of our Exchange

        environment.  This not only allows us to reduce storage costs but also

        streamlines email search and retrieval during an eDiscovery request."

--  Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is a private not-for-profit hospital and

        one of the most comprehensive medical facilities in West Central Florida

        serving a dozen counties with a population in excess of 4 million. As

        one of the largest hospitals in Florida, TGH is licensed for 1,018 beds,

        and with approximately 6,900 employees, is one of the region's largest

        employers. TGH is the area's only level 1 trauma center and one of just

        four burn centers in Florida.

    --  The IT environment at TGH is comprised of 841 servers (51 percent are

        virtualized) running Windows, Linux and IBM AIX along with several

        hundred applications including SharePoint, Epic, Merge for cardiology

        PACS and McKesson for radiology PACS.  TGH was using multiple point

        solutions to address its various data management needs--CommVault to

        backup its physical servers, Quest to manage its virtual servers and EMC

        Data Domain for deduplication.  In switching to Simpana software, TGH

        can now centralize data management across its growing physical, virtual

        and clinical environments.

    --  "Data Domain's target-based deduplication was causing our virtual

        backups to fail and EMC and IBM keep telling us to buy more storage.  We

        needed source-side deduplication to rein in our backup windows," said

        Mark Wanat, network services manager at Tampa General Hospital. 

        "CommVault's single platform approach to data management was the

        deciding factor in standardizing on Simpana software.  Now, we can

        holistically protect and manage data from a single pane of glass

        reducing administrative overhead.  In addition, Simpana software

        provides flexibility and a seamless growth path to address our future

        data management needs including archiving, retention management and

        snapshot integration."