Grid Computing News : Medical Center Turns to Grid Archiving

Richardson Regional Medical Center in Texas is using a grid-based medical archiving product from Bycast and IBM to keep up with the growth of medical images. When Richardson's Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) started running out of room, the medical center turned to IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), which uses Bycast's StorageGRID storage management software to protect critical data and meet federal HIPAA demands. Richardson is using the Bycast management features within IBM GMAS to configure information lifecycle management policies to automatically store data in the right place and time as needs change, creating a more cost-effective storage solution. "The automatic and efficient replication of images to our second campus and the long-term data integrity that StorageGRID provides were extremely important to us," stated Ron Franquiz, Richardson's chief information officer. "Leveraging existing storage resources was also a key financial factor in our decision." In addition to using its current storage infrastructure, Richardson also purchased 18 terabytes of additional online protected storage, all of which will be managed by GMAS.... read more