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09/11/2006, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker:
Hugh Rivers, Emerging Technology Solutions Sales Executive, IBM Corp.
University Health Care System in Augusta, GA had a challenge. Like many other healthcare organizations, UHCS is struggling with an unexpected growth of fixed content, primarily in the form of images created by its next-generation cardiology picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and other medical and enterprise systems. With its existing storage infrastructure based on an EMC Centera storage device, the company was quickly running out of storage capacity. UHCS wanted to establish an open storage infrastructure that would allow it to create a single virtualized storage pool to support all of its enterprise storage needs, enable business continuity in case of planned or unplanned down time and automatically align its data's value with its storage costs.
UHCS optimized its storage infrastructure by implementing a Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) alongside its existing storage devices. The GMAS solution is a distributed and automated grid-based storage platform that optimizes storage utilization, improves application resiliency and uptime, enables real time business continuity, automates administrative functions and virtualizes storage enabling image sharing across multiple sites - even those sites with low or unreliable bandwidth.
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