Yamagata Prefecture’s Okitama General Hospital has installed a backup system with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain to protect against cyber attacks such as ransomware and to strengthen its cyber resilience (ability to recover from cyber incidents). Dell Technologies, the provider, announced this. Okitama General Hospital is the core hospital in the Okitama region, located in the central and southern part of Yamagata Prefecture, and provides advanced acute care. Previously, the hospital had protected data in its medical information system with a backup system, but it was designed to respond to disasters and failures, and was vulnerable to cyber attacks. The hospital has updated its backup system due to the threat of ransomware attacks targeting medical institutions and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s request for strengthened measures in the “Guidelines for Safety Management of Medical Information Systems.”
According to Dell, the hospital had just introduced new backup storage, making it difficult to secure additional budgets, and it was necessary to find a way to utilize existing resources. Therefore, the hospital considered the product from the perspective that “if backup data is prevented from being tampered with, data can be protected.” The hospital focused on the immutable (unchangeable) “Retention Lock” function of Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. The Retention Lock function allows data to be backed up and stored in an unchangeable state, and data can also be compressed and de-duped, which the hospital appreciated for its ability to make effective use of storage resources. The hospital also appreciated the fact that it allows for an efficient transition while minimizing changes to the hospital’s existing systems and reducing costs and workload. The new backup system took about two months to install and set up, and has been in full operation since October 2024.
Currently, backups are being performed for five physical servers and about 140 virtual servers that run almost all of the hospital’s medical information systems. The data compression and de-duplication functions are also said to have contributed. In backup operations, up to seven generations of data from the target systems are stored daily, which previously required 230TB of storage capacity, but the new system has reduced the effective capacity to about 170TB. In terms of operation and management, the old environment did not have a notification mechanism, and administrators had to regularly check the status on the console, but the new system allows them to grasp the status through email notifications, etc., reducing the burden of daily monitoring work and allowing them to focus on other important tasks.The hospital has developed a backup system using Dell PowerProtect Data Domain to protect against cyber attacks such as ransomware and to strengthen its cyber resilience (ability to recover from cyber incidents) . Dell Technologies, the provider, announced this. The public Okitama General Hospital is a core hospital in the Okitama region, located in the central and southern part of Yamagata Prefecture, and provides advanced acute care. Previously, the hospital had protected data in its medical information system with a backup system, but it was designed to respond to disasters and failures, and was vulnerable to cyber attacks. The hospital has updated its backup system due to the threat of ransomware attacks targeting medical institutions and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s request for strengthened measures in the “Guidelines for Safety Management of Medical Information Systems.” According to Dell, the hospital had just introduced new backup storage , making it difficult to secure additional budgets, and it was necessary to find a way to utilize existing resources.
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Therefore, the hospital considered the product from the perspective that “if backup data can be prevented from being tampered with, data can be protected.” The hospital focused on the immutable (unchangeable) “Retention Lock” function of Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. The Retention Lock function allows data to be backed up and stored in an unchangeable state, and data can also be compressed and de-duped, which the hospital appreciated for its ability to make effective use of storage resources. The hospital also appreciated the fact that it allows for an efficient transition while minimizing changes to the hospital’s existing systems and reducing costs and workload. The new backup system took about two months to install and set up, and has been in full operation since October 2024. Currently, backups are being performed for five physical servers and about 140 virtual servers that run almost all of the hospital’s medical information systems. The data compression and de-duplication functions are also said to have contributed. In backup operations, up to seven generations of data from the target systems are stored daily, which previously required 230TB of storage capacity, but the new system has reduced the effective capacity to about 170TB. In terms of operation and management, the old environment did not have a notification mechanism, and administrators had to regularly check the status on the console, but the new system allows them to grasp the status through email notifications, etc., reducing the burden of daily monitoring work and allowing them to focus on other important tasks.
SOURCE: Yahoo
