VINELAND, NJ – South Jersey Healthcare will deploy archiving technology for data protection and disaster recovery of vital e-mail data.

The nonprofit, integrated healthcare system, which serves 375,000 residents throughout southern New Jersey, has selected technology from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mimosa Systems as part of its comprehensive archiving strategy to facilitate HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requirements.

SJH operates two regional hospitals and numerous community health centers, along with delivering a range of home health and specialty services. It employs about 3,000 people, making it the largest employer in Cumberland County, N.J.

With its growing network of healthcare facilities and services, SJH needed to better archive and protect its e-mail data, which was topping 4TB in storage capacity. The system also needed to ensure rapid data recovery in the event of a data loss (while complying with HIPAA regulations), streamline eDiscovery and search processes and eliminate the risk of data corruption that often comes with archiving e-mail data in local system PST (Personal STore) files.

"Before we implemented Mimosa NearPoint we faced very slow e-mail mailbox restore times," said Andrew Gahm, South Jersey's systems and security engineer. "MAPI backup processes were slowing us down and we had no features to perform needed searching, PST archiving or eDiscovery. NearPoint cuts out many of the time consuming steps required for e-mail recovery so we can perform operational recoveries much more quickly."