December inReview

Wow what a year it has been;

From the Team at AustSTOR Merry Christmas, we looking forward to working with you in 2007.

Oh no, are we seeing Business and IT alignment?

The roles of the IT Manger is moving into more of a CIO role, the transformation will continue to do so as business rely heavily on Information to give them the competitive edge.

With news story headings such as

• "Information is King"
• "Data is the life blood of an organisation"
• "Information = Power"
  

There is no wonder why IT is now classified as another business unit instead of being a black hole were extra funding is swallowed up.

AustSTOR Data Storage Team

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Case Study - The Only Storage Technology to Survive Hurricane Katrina - VA Hospital New Orleans

"A year after the tragedy, the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System has restored 99.5% of its pre-Katrina patient data"

Takeaways from case study include:

1. How were business in New Orleans were affected by flooding following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
2. Water and RAID do not mix and the silent killer is Humidity.

"We were able to recover all of the patient images off of the Plasmon libraries... We are now primarily using the Plasmon UDO Archive Appliance for its long term recoverability."

Kenneth Allen
Health Systems Specialist South Central Health Care

Damaged Disk after Hurricane

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User says Nexsan edges out EMC on price, performance

Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology (MDR) has selected Nexsan Technologies' SATABeast as primary storage replacing older EMC Corp. Clariion CX-300s, now relegated to a backup role. The switch in products provided MDR with better performance at one-third the cost of EMC storage, the company claimed.

Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology Summary:

• 13 radiologists
• 300 patients a day.
• Storing a total of 90,000 studies and 25 million images
• Images include Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), mammography and cardiovascular diagnostic pictures
• Total Storage 75 terabytes (TB)

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