A rising tide of data puts a premium on storage, and vendors offered low-cost methods to satisfy the IT needs of mid- and small-sized hospitals and clinics, while advancing high-end technology to manage the volumes of data being generated by large enterprises. Smarter and lower cost media paved the way for both.
A rising tide of data puts a premium on storage, and vendors offered low-cost methods to satisfy the IT needs of mid- and small-sized hospitals and clinics, while advancing high-end technology to manage the volumes of data being generated by large enterprises. Smarter and lower cost media paved the way for both.
Information lifecycle management solutions are integrated with PACS and EHR applications. DiskXtender software allows healthcare providers to migrate inactive digital images to more cost-effective storage, while maintaining transparent access. Documentum Enterprise Content Management software enables management of millions of documents and images residing across a healthcare organization.
Enhanced versions of Medical Assessment Workstation and Medical Archive Solution promise reduced costs and improved patient care.
An expanded disaster recovery offering provides data protection beyond DICOM images. The new service addresses all medical data, including the databases that drive PACS and HIS/RIS. InDex Recovery Plus backs up data on a client's storage area network or on individual servers. The new product can:
Blue lasers create light with a shorter wavelength than the traditionally used red lasers, allowing more data to be stored in smaller spaces (see also Sony below).
NetForce 4000 series NAS filers now feature 300-GB disk drives, effectively doubling raw storage capacity. The installed base can field-upgrade their units with the new drives. The NetForce 4000 series combines optimized software, open architecture, and a modular design using hot-swappable components.
The shorter wavelength of blue lasers, compared with conventional red lasers, allows more data to be stored in smaller spaces (see also Plasmon above).
The company showcased two new technologies relevant to medical imaging. Both address enterprise information lifecycle management. FlexLine 600 is an extension of StorageTek's BladeStore product family. Virtual Storage Manager Open (VSMO) is a disk-based virtual tape library optimized for open systems backup and recovery.
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