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Case Study · 2026

Clinica San Carlo — Caring for the health of its IT system with Syneto.

One of the largest healthcare facilities in the Milan area chose Syneto as its primary IT infrastructure — and recovered every patient record up to the minute before a ransomware attack.

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Background02
Chapter 01 · Background

Company & challenge.

Founded in 1963, Clinica San Carlo in Paderno Dugnano is a private healthcare clinic and one of the largest medical facilities in the Milan area. Day after day it handles some of the most sensitive information that exists: patients' personal details, medical histories and clinical records.

Clinica San Carlo needed an IT solution that could guarantee the protection of this sensitive patient data, while also providing reliable disaster recovery and effective protection against ransomware. In healthcare, downtime and data loss are not simply an inconvenience — they can directly affect patient care, which made resilience a top priority.

Clinica San Carlo
Company
1963
Founded
Paderno Dugnano, Milan
Location
Private healthcare
Sector
Highly sensitive data

Personal details, medical histories and clinical records that must stay protected at all times.

Reliable disaster recovery

A dependable plan to bring the clinic back online quickly after any disruption.

Ransomware protection

Effective defense against ransomware so an attack cannot wipe out patient records.

No tolerance for downtime

In healthcare, downtime and data loss directly affect patient care — resilience had to come first.

The challenge

Protect sensitive patient data and put in place a reliable disaster recovery plan with effective protection against ransomware.

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The Syneto approach03
Chapter 02 · The Syneto approach

The Syneto solution.

Clinica San Carlo adopted a Syneto solution as its primary IT infrastructure. The choice was driven by the need to keep sensitive patient data protected at all times, with automatic and reliable backups built directly into the platform rather than bolted on as an afterthought.

The decision proved its worth almost immediately, when the clinic suffered a ransomware attack. Because the Syneto platform was continuously protecting all sensitive data with instant, automatic backups, it was able to restore the entire environment up to the minute immediately preceding the attack — without losing any patient information.

Clinical data
records & VMs
Syneto platform
primary IT
Recovery Points
instant, immutable
Rollback restore
1 min before attack
run & protect
auto backup
recover
The Syneto platform runs the clinic's core IT and continuously captures instant, immutable Recovery Points — so after the ransomware attack the whole environment was rolled back to one minute before it struck.
Primary IT infrastructure

A single Syneto platform runs the clinic's core IT and protects it at the same time.

Automatic data protection

Instant, reliable automatic backups of all sensitive patient data, with no manual effort.

Ransomware immunity

Immutable Recovery Points mean an attack can be rolled back instead of paid for.

Reliable disaster recovery

Recovery up to one minute before the attack, getting the clinic back up and running fast.

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Results04
Chapter 03 · Results

Results.

When ransomware struck, the investment paid off in full. Every patient record was recovered, the environment was rolled back to the minute immediately before the attack, and the clinic resumed patient care without losing any data.

1 min before attack
Recovery point
None
Data lost
Fully restored
Patient records
Rapidly resumed
Operations
All sensitive patient data — personal details, medical histories and clinical records — kept protected with automatic, instant backups.
Full recovery after a real ransomware attack, with every record restored and nothing lost.
Environment rolled back to the minute immediately preceding the attack.
The clinic recovered quickly from downtime and resumed patient care without data loss.
Patient data At risk Automatically protected
Ransomware attack Potential data loss Fully recovered
Recovery point Hours/days of loss 1 minute before attack
Downtime Prolonged Rapid resumption
Syneto let Clinica San Carlo recover all of its data up to the minute immediately before the attack, getting the clinic back up and running without losing any patient information.Clinica San Carlo case study
The outcome

When ransomware struck, Syneto let Clinica San Carlo recover all of its data up to the minute immediately before the attack — turning what could have been a crisis into a rapid, complete recovery.

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Support & contact05
Chapter 04 · Support & contact

About Syneto & next steps.

Syneto designs and manufactures the complete Hybrid Cloud Ecosystem — hypervisor, data management, data protection and disaster recovery in a single plug & play platform. Founded in 2008, headquartered in Brescia and Timișoara, serving 5,000+ European businesses.

5,000+
Companies served
250+
Channel partners
18+
Years building HCI
$0
Ransom ever paid
European engineering

Designed, built and supported in Europe. ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified operations.

Plug & play deployment

Production-ready in under 30 minutes. No multi-vendor integration, no professional services required.

Single-vendor support

One contract, one phone number, one SLA — for the entire stack. Local language support.

Zero ransom paid

Across 18+ years of customer deployments, no Syneto customer has ever paid ransom following a cyber incident.

Single-vendor support — one contract, one phone number, one SLA for the entire stack. Three response tiers, all delivered by Syneto engineers in your language.

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Case Study06
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Why Clinica San Carlo needed reliable data protection and disaster recovery, the Syneto solution deployed, and how it enabled near-instant recovery after a ransomware attack.

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