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Healthcare Information Services Provider Improves
Performance, Cuts Bandwidth Requirements
SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition Delivers High Availability
SIOS DataKeeper Cluster
Edition eliminated bandwidthissues, improved data proreduced downtime in a
critical healthcare network
environment.

A leading healthcare information services provider serves more than 10,000
healthcare organizations across theUnited States. They rely on their SQL
Server databases to deliver a wide rangeof services including revenue management, patient self-service, and patientcare management systems.

The Challenge

The Environment

The company also needed a reliable,

The company has more than 20 SQL
Server clusters located in two geographically separated data centers forprimary data support and disaster recovery.
They also have smaller servers in their
network, as well as SQL Server log shipping for disaster recovery.
Because of this vast customer baseand IT infrastructure, the company
needed a secure, reliable solution thatand reduce downtime.

Replication to the company’s disaster
reduced reliability across the entire
network. A reliable network is critical for
maintaining and processing patient andbilling data for the company’s hospitaland healthcare provider clients.

improve their recovery point objective(RPO), meaning that they need to signiRPO is determined by the amount oftime between data protection eventsand how much data could be lost during
a disaster recovery.
The company sought to improve therecovery time objective (RTO), which is
the maximum length of downtime thatcan be tolerated after a disasteror failure.

The Solution
The company chose SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition, but
before they deployed it, they ran a proof-of-concept (POC)
to ensure it would provide the required functionality. The POC
was a stress test on both sides of the network, using very

About SIOS Technology Corp.
SIOS Technology Corp. high availability and disasterrecovery solutions ensure availability and eliminate data loss
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inux applications operating acrossphysical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.

watched SQL Server failover successfully and resume mirroring in a high change rate environment.

host-based, block-level replication to synchronize storage on
environment using your choice of SAN-based, SANless, orhybrid storage.
After SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition passed the company's
stringent POC testing, they deployed it into their production environment. They created a three-node cluster, comprising twoSAN-based nodes in their primary, on-premises data centerand one SANless node in their remote disaster recovery site.

SIOS clustering software is essential for any IT infrastructurewith applicatio,
ensuring uptime without sacrificing performance or data protecting businesses from local failures and regional
outages, planned and unplann
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ifornia, with offices worldwide.
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The Results
SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition synchronized replication
among all three nodes in the cluster and eliminated the bandwidth issue at the disaster recovery site. The company saw
substantial improvement in both recovery point and recovery
time objectives and reduced the cost of bandwidth.
The company now uses SIOS DataKeeper to protect theirimportant SQL Server in more than 18 cluster nodes.

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