Secure Agent Solutions:

• Meeting Government Requirements
• Enhance RTO
• Manage Data Center Operations
• Increase Productivity
• Central Point of Control

Using SecureAgent’s Secure Data Solution^® (SDS) to put tape images on virtual instead of physical tape, a hospital complex has been able to retire all its aging 3490-model tape drives, with considerable savings in both floor space and power/cooling costs. The nightly mainframe backup window was also reduced — by over 60 percent! — allowing full-volume backups that were previously not possible due to time constraints.

Since the tape images no longer reside on physical tape, the hospital is also able to eliminate a third-party courier and storage service, resulting in even more cost savings and in increased data security—no physical tapes to be lost or stolen. And encryption of the tape images helped meet HIPAA requirements for data security.

Backups are managed remotely, with no on-site presence at hospital facilities. Because of the benefits achieved in its mainframe environment, the hospital is considering deploying the Secure Data Solution to its open systems group, which faces challenges similar to those encountered by the mainframe team before the installation of the SDS.