Data storage
West Suffolk Hospitals renews
data storage infrastructure. 21 July 2010
Secure storage and patient data the most pressing issues for
hospital IT worldwide. 16 June 2010
Digital images, documents and
medical records cause surge in hospital data storage. 7 June
2010
BridgeHead to launch
intelligent healthcare storage ecosystem at HC2010. 23 April
2010
Dell launches medical
archiving and high-performance computing systems. 13 April 2010
Call for security warning on USB
memory sticks in NHS. 24 March 2010
Compliant disposal
of data and IT equipment
The proper disposal of
obsolete or ‘end of life’ computer equipment is no longer a case of
simply throwing it in the skip. Organisations now have
responsibilities under data protection legislation and the EC’s 2007
WEEE Directive to ensure that equipment is properly disposed of or
comprehensively recycled. Chris Avis of Barron
McCann explains. March 2010
Cloud computing
brings wind of change to IT departments
Cloud
computing gives the end-user complete control over their
client–server, web-based, and computing solutions, allowing them to
choose what they use, where they use it, and where they get
solutions from. IT departments will have to adapt to providing
smarter services. March 2010
Solid state
storage: improving healthcare information systems Texas style
Neil Ekker compares the slow adoption of
solid-state storage in the healthcare sector to the Texan rancher
tradition of buying horsepower by the pound rather than suitability
for the task. Feb 2010
Dorset NHS Trust
reduces data centre space and power demand with virtualisation
Dorset HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust (DHFT) had a pressing need
for data centre space to meet growing requirements. However, with a
limited power supply on site, expanding the data centre was not
possible as the main power phase was stretched to the limit.
Virtualisation was the key to more efficient use of servers, power
and space. Feb 2010
Using tiered storage to address the increasing flow of data
in healthcare
Andy Hardy of Compellent explains the virtues of tiered storage
in addressing the challenge of the rapidly increasing amounts of
data generated by new imaging technology and communications in the healthcare
sector. 14 December 2009
Virtualisation and
the other green computing initiative
Green IT within organisations has to be an initiative that results
in positive bottom-line impact, or it is doomed to failure as a
strategy. Reducing power consumption and management expenses, as
well as increasing efficiency of resources through consolidation and
virtualisation is an effective route to lessening the impact on the
environment as well as improving profitability. In this article,
Owen Cole of F5 examines the technologies that can be used to
achieve both these aims. 7 October 2009.
European project creating the library
of all digital libraries [incl video]. 30 Sept 2009
Galway Clinic digitises and archives
paper records in drive to electronic healthcare record. 30 Sept 2009
North Wales NHS Trust solves
storage headache with disk-based backup and data de-duplication.
11 June 2009
GE announces breakthrough in holographic disk storage technology.
7 May 2009
Solid state storage
and healthcare computing
Neal Ekker of Texas Memory Systems describes the
efficiency, energy usage and cost benefits of using solid state
storage as part of an enterprise data storage system. March 2009
3PAR helps customers save up to 80%
on energy costs of data storage. 23 Feb 2009
StorMagic offers free software to
create virtual SAN from internal hard disks. 18 Feb 2009
Texas and NetApp partnership improves
performance of solid-state hard drives. 17 Feb 2009
SNIA announces initial green storage
power measurement specification. 11 Feb 2009
Infortrend reduces power demand for
networked storage by up to 65%. 11 Feb
Doing more for less with disk-to-disk backup
Jon Leary, of CSA Waverley explains the technological advantages of disk-based backup systems
that are persuading large numbers of organisations to move away from
tape.
October 2008
InMage Systems releases new version
of DR-Scout disaster-recovery software. 27 Oct 2008
Dorset Foundation Trust adopts
server virtualisation to improve energy and storage efficiency.
15 Oct 2008
Green IT still a priority despite
Credit Crunch. 15 Oct 2008
Stormagic and Boston Limited unveil
24 terabyte SAN storage solution. 15 Oct 2008
Tackling the PACS data explosion
The high data storage requirements of digital imaging presents
significant IT management problems for hospitals. Charles Mallio of BridgeHead Software
discusses the issues of cost, energy use, backup, archiving and
compliance. October 2008 read
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Increasing storage efficiency with virtualization
Chris Farey of StorMagic explains the efficiency, flexibility
and cost-saving benefits of aggregating existing storage on multiple
servers into a virtual storage pool. October 2008
The ultimate data
deduplication FAQ
Philip Turner of Data Domain gives a comprehensive guide to
technical aspects of data deduplication with 13 questions and
answers covering topics ranging from the need for deduplication,
different approaches to achieving it to disaster recovery, data
safety and system performance.
September 2008
Self-service storage: has
its moment arrived?
Geoff Hough of 3PAR wonders why the provisioning of storage in data
centres is done in such an inefficient way and lays out the
technology path for developing self-service storage systems that
would make it easier, more efficient and cost-effective for data
centre users to manage their storage. July 2008
Storage security — who
cares?
The need for business continuity and compliance with regulations
make it increasingly important for organisations to make storage
security a high priority. Bjarne Madsen of the Storage
Networking Industry Association discusses the issues and outlines
the elements of good storage security. July 2008
Nesxan introduces high capacity
storage system. 29 July 2008
Barchester backs up BACS. 29 July
2008
Only one copy! How to deal
with data duplication
Unnecessary duplication of data is a common problem in the digital
world. Glyn Bowden of the Data Management Forum outlines the
options for overcoming the problem. July 2008.
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The green data centre
Phil Andrews of Cisco discusses ways to improve efficiency of
server usage, reducing energy requirements and increasing efficiency
of storage resources. July 2008.
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London Medical protects data with
online backup solution. 7 July
Data centres waste energy through excess
capacity. 24 June 2008
New archiving tool unifies PACS data
and relieves IT storage pressures. 6 June 2008
Green issues becoming more important
for European datacentre providers. 30 April
The importance of storage management in patient care
David Jones explains why, with the huge amounts of
unstructured data generated in the modern hospital, the proper
management of the data is crucial to making optimum use of storage
resources. October 2007
A new era in information management at Liverpool
Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
The Trust had disparate IT systems with different hardware
platforms, operating systems and business applications, making operations
innefective and liable to data loss. The solution was to virtualise application
servers, centralise storage and deploy a mirrored storage area network.
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Microfilm: the reel thing?
 With the big IT firms squaring up to each other in the latest
battle in the format wars, and even the chief executive of The
National Archives voicing concern over the longevity of digital
storage formats, Paul Morris asks if it's time. August 2007.
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Clustered storage enhances prostate cancer and proteomics research
The Louis Warschaw Center for Applied Molecular Medicine, Los
Angeles needed secure, highly scalable and cost-effective storage
for the petabytes of data generated by mass spectrometer analyses.
It found the answer in a a clustered storage solution with
independent capacity and performance scaling. August 2007.
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Are you covering your back end?
Tips on securing your storage network
Andrew Wilson of Hitachi Data Systems outlines measures an
organisation needs to take to ensure
physical and electronic security of data storage systems. August
2007.
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