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Community Health Partnership Using FilesX CDP On-Demand Technology for Continuous Access to Live Data

FilesX, a leading provider of next-generation Continuous Data Protection and CDP On-Demandâ„¢ technology, today announced that Community Health Partnership, Inc. (CHP) has implemented FilesX data protection technology as part of an integrated, multi-vendor recovery management solution that ensures continuous access to live data and fast application recovery.

"Data protection today is all about recovery management," said Heidi Biggar, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "It's about being able to recover data when and where you need to, using the right set of tools. The CHP solution is a great example of vendors working together to build a recovery-focused solution that meets the customer's need for data accessibility, availability, and usability at all times."

Fast recovery and the importance of continuous access to "Live Data" became paramount concerns for CHP after the Wisconsin health care provider overcame three unplanned events in 18 months. The events included a cooling system failure that overheated the server room, an Exchange Server crash along with a corrupt data partition, and an extended power loss from a major storm.

"When we set out to build a new solution, our first step was to identify the most likely disaster scenarios and determine the business and financial impact," said Derrick Longdo, CHP's IT Manager / Security Officer. "Identifying each type of disaster can be a daunting task. Instead, we looked at it in simple terms by recognizing the different processes that would result from a failure of some type and scale," said Longdo.

As a result, CHP was able to set clear goals and objectives for protecting its live data, local and remote. CHP criteria included:

- Minimal restoration and data duplication
- Recovery of servers without rebuild,
- Rapid protection and recovery with minimal downtime, and
- No reliance on tape

"Downtime is the most costly part of disaster recovery, said Longdo. "We wanted a system that went beyond disaster recovery to 'disaster tolerant.' We also wanted to eliminate, or at least minimize, the use of tape since it is less reliable, bulky to handle and store, costly and is not scalable."

The next challenge was to identify vendors or partners who could deliver the solution CHP needed, using criteria that included not only basic features, but scalability for the long term, the viability of vendor and quality of their customer base, technology positioning compared to other solutions, and cost. To meet these criteria, CHP chose HP, Equallogic, VMware and FilesX.

"We had tremendous cooperation among vendors in building our solution," said Longdo. "The end result speaks for itself."

"CHP used a combination of 'best of breed' data protection technologies which integrated smoothly and functioned flawlessly as a whole unit since implementation," said Aviram Cohen FilesX Vice President of Product Management. "The aim was to provide CHP IT personnel with a full resolution to their immediate and long-term concerns. Making convoluted matters simple while addressing all their needs is another way of looking at it. This is what FilesX CDP On-Demand technology is all about, and this is what we deliver to our customers."

FilesX CDP On-Demand technology is the first truly adaptive data protection and recovery solution. CDP On-Demand encapsulates the mechanisms to accommodate all application protection and recovery needs (continuous, frequent and scheduled), local and remote. To handle mission critical applications, CDP On-Demand is equipped with advanced recovery tools, including FilesX Xpress Restore and Xchange Restore.

"The need for security and disaster recovery is essential to our day-to-day business," said Longdo. "With patient confidentiality being so important to us, we are constantly looking for ways to better improve our IT infrastructure. A strong Business Continuity plan is piece-of-mind for an IT Manager, but the real satisfaction comes from knowing that our clients will continue to receive the services they need even if a catastrophic event occurs" - FilesX.