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StorageGRID

Bycast StorageGRID storage virtualization software stores, protects, and preserves healthcare digital data and images. For organizations that depend on rapid access to mission-critical data, StorageGRID minimizes the risk of data loss, corruption, or service interruption by protecting data over its lifetime. StorageGRID helps organizations optimize their storage resources by treating them as a single, centrally-managed pool of storage. The software is sold through some of the world's largest storage vendors, and interfaces with leading PACS, such as Agfa, Fuji, McKesson, Philips, GE, Siemens.

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Videos

Bycast StorageGRID™ Demonstration

Bycast StorageGRID™– Reducing Total Cost of Ownership

Today, the cost of storage ownership is ever-rising for organizations across all industries. In this video, we will demonstrate how Bycast StorageGRID can reduce your storage TCO and maximize return on your storage investment.

How Much is Storage Really Costing You?

Hospitals, no matter the size, are generating more and more data, and they are keeping this data for a very long time. Because of this long retention, the total amount of data in the healthcare enterprise is more than doubling year over year. All of this data needs to be retained for long periods for clinical care reasons and regulatory requirements. According to a recent Gartner study, for every dollar spent on acquiring storage capacity, four or more dollars are spent managing that capacity. So how much is storage really costing you, and where are those costs originating?

Forrester: Trends in Digital Storage/Archives: 2008 Recap & 2009 Outlook

Stephanie Balaouras, Senior Analyst at Forrester, will recap the storage & archiving challenges and trends of 2008 and will offer Forrester’s outlook for 2009. Jason McDermott, Vice President of Bycast, will then introduce StorageGRID and discuss how it is designed to address some of the challenges and trends outlined by the Forrester research.

Best Practices for Regional Archives

This webcast examines key challenges of regional image archiving and describes best practices for translating them into solution requirements and achieving successful implementation.

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Data Storage

Executives

Moe Kermani

Director, President & CEO

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Dave Boswell

Executive Vice President

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David Slik

Co-Founder & Senior Technology Architect

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Dave Wong

Vice President, Product Development

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Jason McDermott

Vice President, Sales

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Whitepapers

Data Security - one more reason to look into The Cloud

Case Studies

Eric Slack, Senior Analyst, Storage Switzerland While it may seem counterintuitive, storing data in the cloud can provide some companies an enhanced level of security, depending upon their existing infrastructure and security policies. Short of starting from 'scratch' with the corporate data infrastructure, many security problems can be effectively addressed through the implementation of a proven, secure cloud storage infrastructure...

IDC Case Study: Banner Health Implements Bycast Scale-Out Storage in the Cloud for Medical Image Archiving

Case Studies

Changes in the healthcare provider segment of the healthcare industry are having an impact on storage and IT infrastructure. As providers shift from legacy paper-based processes to automated tasks enabled via healthcare applications, more patient information is born online. Applications including PACS, electronic medical record (EMR), document imaging, integrated patient records, and physician order entry are all causing increased storage demand. As these applications are used by personnel to treat patients, the reliability, recovery, and availability of data they manage become paramount.

Become the Cloud

White Papers

By delivering private or public cloud storage services, IT departments can benefit from a new source of revenue to help offset costs associated with the data center, or merely use it to track usage on an internal per-department basis. As the business grows you will gain economies of scale via multi-tenant infrastructure that will drive down your internal storage purchasing costs. As a result, you could enjoy a predictable, recurring revenue and see your internal constituents become more conscientious about their storage habits.

Bycast Healthcare Solution Brief

Product Reviews

For healthcare organizations that depend on access to mission-critical data and imaging studies, StorageGRID protects and preserves fixed-content assets over their lifetime.

ILM Business Rules at Work

White Papers

Information Lifecycle Management is the key to ensuring that electronic data is stored in the right place, on the right media, at the right time. Organizations can optimize the balance between cost and performance by using ILM to align the value of data to the cost of their storage infrastructure.

Best Practices in Long-Term Data Preservation

White Papers

This white paper presents current best practices in long-term digital data storage and preservation. Although it primarily addresses digital archives held within or on behalf of an enterprise, the discussion is equally applicable to digital archives for public use. The general requirements and attributes of digital archive systems are presented, and comparisons are made with systems designed for other purposes, such as data backup, that are quite different. Several technical challenges are discussed, along with strategies and tradeoffs commonly made for cost and performance optimizing a digital archive system for a particular use. Finally, some examples are presented which that show how different industries have specific requirements (e.g. data security, multi-site archives and regulatory compliance) which, along with size, cost and performance requirements, affect choices in digital archive system selection.

Enabling Data Sharing in Regional Archives

White Papers

Healthcare institutions continue to adopt digital workflows as a means of improving care and reducing costs. A key benefit of the transition from paper and film to digital is the ability to gain access to critical patient data quickly and make this information available to clinical users across the entire organization. The formation of regional healthcare organizations and initiatives like Integrated Delivery Networks (IDN) and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO) are spanning multiple institutions causing a greater need to share information across institutions. To be successful, data sharing must be transparent to the clinical users and not result in disruption/alteration of workflows within the individual department and disciplines. This is especially a challenge in environments where multi-vendor departmental systems exist. This whitepaper offers recommended design requirements and system architectures that address the clinical and IT requirements of healthcare regional archives.

Solving 6 Top Enterprise Storage Issues Through Consolidation

Analyst Research Reports

Rapid adoption of digital workflows has resulted in large and growing volumes of file-based data. Storage and protection of this data over its lifecycle consumes a growing percentage of IT budget, and creates a myriad of storage issues including: Low storage utilization Obsolete technology High administrative burden Lack of visibility Proliferating management silos Inadequate data protection and excessive management overhead for remote office locations This paper examines the six top challenges and explores how storage consolidation can address them.

Cloud Storage Reality - Hospitals Are Already Doing It! Whitepaper

White Papers

With the increased pressure to contain or even reduce costs, Data Centers large and small are faced with the dilemma of dealing with the one thing that does seem to be recession proof; data growth. Cloud Storage is a practical solution to solve this problem and organizations of all sizes should examine its use. Cloud Storage's primary use case is to serve as an archive for inactive data. This data typically accounts for more than 80% of the storage that an IT department maintains. The movement of this data to a less expensive tier of storage could dramatically reduce costs. What may come as a surprise to many is that there are several cloud storage companies that have been in business for years and have real production customers. Healthcare organizations, such as Banner Health and Orlando Regional Healthcare, have been offering private cloud storage services for some time.