Help at Home adopts iland disaster recovery solution
iland announces its successful implementation of a business continuity plan for healthcare
HOUSTON, TX - April 16, 2010 - Cloud-computing infrastructure provider iland™ announces its successful implementation of a business continuity plan for healthcare services provider Help at Home. The implementation is detailed in a case study that tells the client’s story of finding and deciding on a cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) plan from iland.
What Help at Home was looking for
Eric Heidrich, Senior Manager of IT at Help at Home, needed to implement a custom business continuity plan that ensured maximum uptime of their mission critical applications affecting patient care and regulatory compliance. He also needed the solution to meet their Recovery Time Objective (RTO), be easily managed by a lean IT staff, and fit a limited IT budget.
Finding the right solution
Heidrich spent time looking for a solution that would meet all his requirements. “By far, the most important thing was finding a company that would allow me to ship my virtual machine (VM) files to them and boot them up in their hosted VMware® environment in the event of a disaster,” he recounts.
“But not many companies offer a “standby cloud” for VMware, and many companies didn’t even understand what I was asking for,” says Heidrich. “After many Google searches and phone calls, I thought I had exhausted my options, until I came across iland. They were quick to propose the solution I needed.”
About the solution The iland Continuity Cloud© is specifically designed to provide cost-effective business continuity options to enterprises of all sizes using private cloud resources. iland provides not just a replication target for critical data—but an entire infrastructure solution including redundant, standby resources based on industry-leading VMware solutions from six high-availability cloud computing datacenters across North America and Europe.
Cost savings of the iland Continuity Cloud
Implementing the iland solution immediately saved Help at Home $15,000 because it eliminated the need for upfront capital expenditures. Help at Home also estimates they will save $150,000 over three years by using iland managed data replication—not to mention the millions of dollars saved in the event of a disaster because the iland Continuity Cloud can rapidly restore data and services to the business.
About iland
iland is a provider of cloud computing infrastructure with high-availability datacenters specifically designed for cloud computing in Boston, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, and London. As a partner of VMware and other industry-leaders, our infrastructure enables organizations to go beyond the cloud computing buzz and realize tangible business benefits including reduced and predictable IT costs, streamlined and simplified management, and a nimble infrastructure that lets you adapt with ease to changing business priorities.
About Help at Home
Help at Home, Inc. provides the in-home care and respite services that elderly, medically fragile, and disabled individuals need. In business for over 30 years, they employ a large staff of trained Personal Care Aides, Respite Care Givers, Nursing Assistants, and Registered Nurses who provide 24x7 in-home care. With over 100 U.S. offices, Help at Home’s operational footprint includes Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The company has notable contracts with the Illinois Department on Aging and other state, regional, and municipal agencies involved in custodial home care services.
What Help at Home was looking for
Eric Heidrich, Senior Manager of IT at Help at Home, needed to implement a custom business continuity plan that ensured maximum uptime of their mission critical applications affecting patient care and regulatory compliance. He also needed the solution to meet their Recovery Time Objective (RTO), be easily managed by a lean IT staff, and fit a limited IT budget.
Finding the right solution
Heidrich spent time looking for a solution that would meet all his requirements. “By far, the most important thing was finding a company that would allow me to ship my virtual machine (VM) files to them and boot them up in their hosted VMware® environment in the event of a disaster,” he recounts.
“But not many companies offer a “standby cloud” for VMware, and many companies didn’t even understand what I was asking for,” says Heidrich. “After many Google searches and phone calls, I thought I had exhausted my options, until I came across iland. They were quick to propose the solution I needed.”
About the solution The iland Continuity Cloud© is specifically designed to provide cost-effective business continuity options to enterprises of all sizes using private cloud resources. iland provides not just a replication target for critical data—but an entire infrastructure solution including redundant, standby resources based on industry-leading VMware solutions from six high-availability cloud computing datacenters across North America and Europe.
Cost savings of the iland Continuity Cloud
Implementing the iland solution immediately saved Help at Home $15,000 because it eliminated the need for upfront capital expenditures. Help at Home also estimates they will save $150,000 over three years by using iland managed data replication—not to mention the millions of dollars saved in the event of a disaster because the iland Continuity Cloud can rapidly restore data and services to the business.
About iland
iland is a provider of cloud computing infrastructure with high-availability datacenters specifically designed for cloud computing in Boston, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, and London. As a partner of VMware and other industry-leaders, our infrastructure enables organizations to go beyond the cloud computing buzz and realize tangible business benefits including reduced and predictable IT costs, streamlined and simplified management, and a nimble infrastructure that lets you adapt with ease to changing business priorities.
About Help at Home
Help at Home, Inc. provides the in-home care and respite services that elderly, medically fragile, and disabled individuals need. In business for over 30 years, they employ a large staff of trained Personal Care Aides, Respite Care Givers, Nursing Assistants, and Registered Nurses who provide 24x7 in-home care. With over 100 U.S. offices, Help at Home’s operational footprint includes Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The company has notable contracts with the Illinois Department on Aging and other state, regional, and municipal agencies involved in custodial home care services.
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