Bay Cove Human Services Selects Topio to Ensure Protection and Recovery of Patient Records

Business Wire, May 10, 2005

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Replication from Remote Sites to Central Office Improves Recoverability, Simplifies HIPAA Compliance

Topio, (www.topio.com), the leading provider of enterprise software for data replication and recovery, announced today that Bay Cove Human Services has selected the Topio Data Protection Suite(TM) (TDPS) to enable rapid disaster recovery and centralized backup of remote site data, in compliance with HIPAA regulations.

Based in Boston, Mass., Bay Cove Human Services is a private, not-for-profit corporation that provides highly specialized residential, day, outpatient and educational services to children and adults with a broad array of disabilities such as mental illness, drug and alcohol dependency and developmental disabilities. With over 80 program sites supporting communities in eastern Massachusetts, Bay Cove needed a simple, flexible way to reliably protect and recover patient data from a range of locations, platforms and storage devices.

"Our charter at Bay Cove is about service to the community and we capitalize on technologies that allow us to focus on that task," said Hilary Croach, Bay Cove's Director of Information Services. "Topio allows us to simplify and consolidate data protection across our heterogeneous, distributed infrastructure, while we measurably improve our ability to recover clinical applications and data, should we lose a site. This not only saves us time and money but enables us to improve service delivery and meet our regulatory commitments in a reliable, efficient manner."

TDPS gives Bay Cove a single software solution to continuously replicate data from remote sites, eliminating the need for specialized equipment and trained IT staff to support distributed backup operations. This drives down IT costs, and removes the potential for human error, ensuring that all required data is consistently protected. Bay Cove can now consolidate backup infrastructure and operations at a central site, where economies of management and scale can be exploited to further drive down costs and ensure compliant HIPAA practices.

At Bay Cove's two data centers in Boston, TDPS maintains an up-to-the second, recovery-ready image of production data, so in the event of a prolonged site outage or disaster Bay Cove can now and quickly recover clinical applications with up-to-date patient data. "In the past, we could recover the previous day's events, but a care-giver can update a case at any time of day or night," said Croach. "Now we have the capability to be right back in business armed with current information that could make a huge difference."

About Topio

Topio provides software for data replication and recovery across the spectrum of locations, platforms and storage that support an enterprise. Worldwide, companies of all sizes depend on Topio for:

--Disaster Recovery

--Backup Consolidation

--Data Migration

Topio is the ideal solution for comprehensive, cost effective business continuance: Dramatically improving business recovery, while simplifying operations and avoiding the high cost or vendor lock-in of traditional replication solutions. Topio is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with EMEA headquarters in London, UK.