Apollo Hospitals To Secure Critical Data In 'Backup Vault'

Delhi and NCR-based Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd (Ace Data) has entered into an agreement with Indraprastha Medical Corporation Limited (Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals) for providing Backup Vault solution for server host applications and database backup. Backup Vault from Ace Data is a next generation, cloud based backup and recovery solution for Indian businesses.

According to the business agreement, Ace Data will be providing Apollo Hospitals with backup services and solutions for MS SQL, MS Exchange, Oracle and other critical data. With the new service, the requirement of manual intervention while taking the backup of critical data will cease to exist.

“Initially we started with the SQL database backup project with the Apollo Hospitals. Based on the experience and the visible benefits of our solution, the scope of the agreement has already been scaled up to include MS Exchange 2010 data base spread over multiple information stores,” said Neeraj Mediratta, Chief Executive Officer, Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd. The SQL database of the Apollo Hospitals has very critical patient and pharmacy data which now gets automatically gets backed up every six hours.

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With every organisation investing heavily into securing and backing crucial data, Backup Vault is an apt solution which complements the profile of IT Department by way of meeting the challenges of managing agents, backup schedules and multimedia operations. Backup Vault is expected to provide benefits such as architecture for backing up desktops, laptops and servers including online backup of databases, de-duplication of data travelling on cloud, AES 256 bit encryption compliant with SOX, HIPPA, Basel II and FIS standards, automatic archiving of older backups on low cost disks and deletion of older backup with destruction certificates and local data backup and faster recoveries.

“With Backup Vault in place, we have been able to secure our database, which is very critical for a business like ours. Today, we are sure that all the information regarding our patients is secure and easily available. The fast and reliable software service from Ace Data’s Backup Vault has enabled us to achieve this,” said Srinivasan Raman, Head – IT, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals.

“Backup Vault with its multi-featured solution supports an optimised architecture which resolves concerns such as bandwidth utilisation, data security and recovery. The solution comes with committed recovery assurance is expected to benefit Apollo Hospitals in terms of securing the critical data, but also will reduce the IT spend over a period of time,” said Mediratta.