Benenden Hospital Chooses Databarracks To Keep Their Backups Healthy.
16th November 2009
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Benenden Hospital was founded in 1907 and became the centre for
hospital treatment for members of Trade Unions and Friendly
Societies and subsequently large numbers of public sector employees
who joined what is now the Benenden Healthcare Society. The
Society has over 900,000 member and nominee subscribers.
Today, the Hospital, as well as being available to the Society's
membership, is a provider of services to both privately insured
patients and the National Health Services. It is an approved
primary provider under the NHS Patient Choice Scheme and provides
diagnostic services directly to general practitioners. It is
also accredited by many of the major health insurance
organisations.
Like any major Healthcare Establishment, the security and safety
of their data is of paramount importance and it is essential that
medical records are kept secure and to NHS standards. Benenden
Hospital has a reliance on their IT systems, including Email,
Databases and File data. Each night Benenden Hospital would perform
a backup using a disk to tape system which was causing problems and
increased management time for the IT team. Martin Norris,
BenendenHospital's IT manager said "Our backups were simply not
reliable enough for us and we had to be comfortable knowing that
the Hospital's data was 100% safe. Unreliable backups were causing
us headaches and we as a team were spending far too much time
trouble shooting issues with our existing solution"
Benenden chose Databarracks after a visit to Databarracks' data
centre and a successful proof of concept. "We had a tour of
Databarracks' facilities and were left impressed, at just how
serious Databarracks was about security. Once we had visited and
risk assessed their facility we had a trial of their online backup
service and after dealing with their engineers were left with no
doubt they were the right choice for us to work with"
James Watts from Databarracks was happy to announce the deal.
"Databarracks has worked with a number of medical and health care
facilities in the past and to add Benenden Hospital, one of the
countries leading establishments is fantastic. We worked with them
for a number of weeks to ensure that we met all of their criteria
and could deliver the level of security and service they required
and I am happy to say that we ticked all of their boxes. We are
seeing more and more backup companies immerging in the market place
and to know that we are still the default choice for security and
service is something that makes us all proud."