Business Challenges:

Arizona Medical Board (AZMD) relied on tape backups that were sent to another offsite state agency. Their IT environment includes multiple physical servers, virtual hosts and guests that house all data, physician, and regulatory information. AZMD was looking for a disaster recovery solution since they weren’t comfortable with the level of backup a tape-based solution provides and were concerned it exceeded their RTO and RPO standards for recovery. If an incident were to occur, a lengthy process was involved: rebuild entire infrastructure (hardware,
software), retrieve then recover tapes, restore data, etc.,resulting in a multi-week outage.