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TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS Data Storage & Archiving: Safeguarding the Healthcare Fortress Managing storage on an enterprise level, vendor neutrality and cost-efﬁciency are the leading foci of archiving and data storage vendors at this year’s RSNA meeting. Acuo Technologies (Booth 8357) is showcasing the latest version of the DICOM Services Grid, which creates a search engine environment to aggregate, federate and virtualize medical imaging and related content. Agfa HealthCare (Booth 4800) is showing its Impax Data Center, a largescale multimedia storage solution that consolidates data from disparate systems into a single point. The system stores DICOM encapsulated non-imaging objects such as waveforms, structured reports and PDFs. aycan Medical Systems (Booth 8710) is introducing its aycan store, a exible DICOM archiving and distribution system that offers entry level and scalable models. Candelis (Booth 1509) is demonstrating its iMed-Stor 300, a dedicated DICOM-compliant archive appliance that features RAID 5 archiving with initial raw capacity points of 1, 2, 3 or 4 terabyte and embedded database with DICOM engine for image archiving and management. Carestream Health (Booth 8342) is displaying its latest Information Management Solutions platform that allows clinicians to manage and view laboratory and pathology reports, imaging exams, video ﬁles, DICOM images and other types of patient data through one virtual desktop. EMC (Booth 6233) is showcasing its EMC Open Systems Archive Solution, based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and deployed in a modular fashion. Fast LTA (Booth 2000E) is introducing Silent Cubes, an alternative to conventional long-term storage solutions that feature Hardware WORM technology to seal ﬁ les against manipulation. 64 Health Imaging & IT | November 2008 GE Healthcare IT (Booth 5529) is demonstrating its Centricity Imaging ASP solutions, outsourced and scalable DICOM archive solutions that enhance and protect radiology and cardiology work ow through primary and disaster recovery services. Hewlett-Packard Co. (Booth 6622) is showcasing the HP Medical Archiving solution that allows organizations to easily store, manage and retrieve diagnostic images and other ﬁ xed content. InSite One (Booth 1815) is highlighting new features of its InDex managed storage services including identity management services for patient reconciliation, alerts and notiﬁcations, record location, store and retrieve for clinical data, and auditing, authentication and access control. Merge Healthcare (Booth 4058) is highlighting a new Disaster Recovery Service that provides technology and business continuity peace-of-mind with data transmission, backup, storage and recovery. Philips Healthcare (Booth 7713) is demonstrating iVault, a scalable, online long-term PACS storage solution that protects the integrity and privacy of data while giving clinicians reliable access to images across the enterprise. The solution also has disaster recovery and retention capabilities. Plasmon (Booth 9558) is featuring its updated UDO Archive Appliance version 4.11, which includes remote access and monitoring, UDO Guard and increased cache capacity. ScImage (Booth 4013) is showcasing BrickStorage, an enterprise-wide imaging and related document central archiving solution that employs intelligent data fetching algorithms utilizing a redundant array of storage systems—independent of a RAID, a network storage system or a simple hard drive. HealthImaging.com Candelis iMed-Stor 300 Fast LTA Silent Cube http://www.HealthImaging.com

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