Tuesday, 22 August 2006

Network Appliance Hits 1,000 Mark for Healthcare Center Deployments

Network Appliance has reached more than 1,000 healthcare center deployments of NetApp storage solutions for digital records and archiving. "We store more than 45TB of PACS data, including digitized X-ray and CAT scan images and cardiology and applications data, all on the same network, efficiently and cost-effectively," said Bart Van den Bosch, CIO of Leuven University Hospital.

"Our NetApp solution supports more than 450,000 radiology procedures we do annually. As our storage volumes grew in our application environment, the NetApp storage solution was easily upgraded. Our ultimate goal is to create an infinite online archive. NetApp makes this so easy that we gradually promoted it to our central storage platform for mission-critical medical applications to help our physicians and hospital staff expedites and improve patient care. We now have more than 200TB on NetApp storage today."

"NetApp is aggressively addressing customer pain points in digital archiving for healthcare and its image storage applications, particularly in PACS deployments," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Alliances at Network Appliance.

"Our customers have found that the efficiency and flexibility of the NetApp platform have permitted them to use their imaging archives storage further and have even made extensions of storage from PACS to Microsoft® Exchange. Speedy image and data retrieval of healthcare archives is of paramount importance. Just as important are low-cost storage systems to meet these needs, and our customers are finding that NetApp provides a lower TCO, enabling them to consolidate other archival applications on NetApp storage."