WOBURN, MA, UNITED STATES - Feb 27, 2014 - BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data management, today announced BridgeHead RAPid™ (Rapid Application Protection), which facilitates the use of multiple protection strategies in a single seamless HDM solution to ensure optimized protection and recovery of hospital applications. BridgeHead RAPid integrates both backup and archive with a central repository for meta data, business and clinical data as well as healthcare-specific application awareness to ensure that hospitals can quickly bring back large amounts of data.

Leveraging BridgeHead BLAST (Backup Leveraging Advanced Storage Technology), BridgeHead RAPid enables hospitals to restore an application's complete underlying database and then enough of its file data to quickly get the application back up and running. To streamline the data protection process, RAPid deploys both Single Instancing for archive on the file level and deduplications for backup on the block level.  BridgeHead RAPid promises to help hospitals:

• Optimize RPO and RTO for 99.9% of their applications and data,
• Reduce storage and network requirements with Single Instancing for reduction of application objects combined with deduplication for reduction of backup data,
• Provide a better platform for recovery, both in terms of speed, ease of use and reduced data loss.

"The BridgeHead RAPid approach combines the company's deep knowledge of healthcare applications with a unified backup and archiving offering for data protection that is ideal for hospitals," said Joe Martins, Data Mobility Group. "Because RAPid takes two angles on data reduction - Single Instancing with archive, and deduplication with backup -- no matter what type of healthcare data is being managed, hospitals get an optimized data footprint which is faster, easier and less expensive to manage. Because of the unique approach of combining optimized protection, the BridgeHead RAPid approach can cover 99.9% of the types of data that a hospital has to manage."

"Many INHS customers want to ensure that generational copies have a separate physical location in a non-risk area. The BridgeHead RAPid approach, with its dual data reduction technologies, eliminates the bottlenecks inherent in moving data to and from the Cloud," said Chad Skidmore, director, INHS. "BridgeHead RAPid has enabled INHS to deliver healthcare-aware disaster recovery strategies for hospitals that combines existing storage resources with the vastly scalable and affordable Cloud."

"Built on BridgeHead's HDM Platform, Rapid Application Protection is an approach designed for hospitals to ensure optimized protection and recovery for any application," said Tony Cotterill, Chief Product Officer at BridgeHead Software. "RAPid ensures customers get optimum protection of their data as it allows a mix of backup strategies unlike any other data protection solution."  

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About BridgeHead Software

With 20 years' experience in data and storage management, and 12 years in healthcare, BridgeHead Software is trusted by over 1,000 hospitals worldwide. Today, BridgeHead Software helps healthcare facilities overcome challenges stemming from rising data volumes and increasing storage costs while delivering peace of mind around how to store, protect and share clinical and administrative information.

BridgeHead's Healthcare Data Management (HDM) solutions are designed to work with any hospital's chosen applications and storage hardware, regardless of vendor, providing greater choice, flexibility and control over the way data is managed, now and in the future. For more information, visit http://www.bridgeheadsoftware.com or follow on Twitter at@BridgeHeadHDM.