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Mercy Hospital Selects Bycast StorageGRID™

Comprehensive Medical Center Will Leverage the Power of Grid Computing and Intelligent Information Lifecycle Management to Deliver Scalable Enterprise Medical Image Archive

Vancouver, BC – February 27, 2004

Bycast Inc., the leading provider of grid-powered storage solutions, today announced that Mercy Hospital has selected the Bycast StorageGRID™ solution to power their enterprise medical image archive.

Mercy Hospital is a comprehensive medical center and part of the Catholic Health East, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems. Its Centers of Excellence include: The Heart Center at Mercy Hospital - one of the premier cardiovascular centers in South Florida; the Miami Cancer Center at Mercy Hospital - one of the leading multidisciplinary cancer treatment centers in Miami-Dade County; and the Orthopedic Institute at Mercy Hospital. With the implementation of a Bycast StorageGRID archive, the hospital will be able to improve the quality of patient care by providing faster access to medical images throughout the entire hospital. Importantly, the radiology and cardiology departments will have transparent, integrated access to the medical image archive from their respective Canon and Philips PACS systems. As well, Mercy Hospital will increase the overall cost effectiveness of their medical image management by storing the right image, on the right media, at the right time using Bycast StorageGRID. To date, the hospital has used a tape library for medical image storage.

“Our goals were to increase and accelerate medical image access, ensure business continuity and achieve a scalable, cost effective on-line storage solution,” said Jorges Labrada,, Radiology Systems Administrator, at Mercy Hospital. “Our team selected the Bycast StorageGRID solution based on the inherent openness, scalability, and business continuity capabilities of the grid-based architecture and the lower total cost of ownership objectives achieved using intelligent information lifecycle management.”

About Bycast

Bycast is the leading provider of grid-powered storage management software that simplifies the management of massive fixed-content storage systems. Hewlett-Packard and IBM have OEM relationships with Bycast to deliver storage systems based on Bycast StorageGRID®. Organizations that use StorageGRID based storage systems are better able to optimize their storage infrastructure and ensure the integrity and availability of their valuable data assets. StorageGRID also enables the formation of regional archives that can scale to petabytes of data across hundreds of sites. Bycast Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, BC. To learn more about the company and its solutions, visit www.bycast.com.

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