And we've already eliminated over 100 physical machines, which is saving us thousands of dollars in maintenance, power and cooling costs." For disaster recovery, Northern Hospital replicates its server and storage infrastructures with EMC RecoverPoint and VMware Site Recovery Manager. The hospital also replaced a Bridgehead tape backup solution with an EMC NetWorker solution certified for MEDITECH and an EMC Avamar deduplication backup system to address growing backup windows and accelerate recovery times. "RecoverPoint is so granular that we can identify a recovery point right up to the minute before a loss or corruption occurs. In this way, we're able to ensure compliance with requirement for guaranteed zero data loss," said Hall. "In our tape environment, we were approaching a 24-hour backup window for MEDITECH and our other applications were pushing 14 hours.