The following offers storage trend reports written by industry analysts plus articles and commentary written by storage experts in the press.
Analyst Reports
- Digital Archiving Circa 2008: Addressing Long-Term Data Storage and Preservation Requirements
Organizations today share an underlying business problem: 1) storing huge volumes of fixed-content, or persistent, data and 2) preserving this data for the long haul. Current archive practices that are based on tape and which think of backup and archive as being one and the same or, worse yet, intermix archive data with mission-critical data on primary storage systems, are inherently flawed. Organizations that don’t have sound strategies in place for storing fixed content today face serious IT and business consequences over time, including high IT costs (both CAPEX and OPEX), potentially hefty regulatory penalties and lost revenue as a result of downtime or missed business opportunity.
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- Data Mobility Group: Bycast Extends its Leadership Position in Grid Storage Technology, 2007
IBM has announced they will OEM Bycast’s StorageGRID software as a new product called the IBM Grid Access Manager Software. This is a significant event and storage buyers should pay due attention. This DMG Brief provides an overview of the StorageGRID technology and explains why it has the potential to reshape the market for fixed-content storage.
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- Frost and Sullivan: Maximizing ROI in Medical Imaging IT with IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution
The world of medical imaging has changed dramatically over the last decade. The pace of technological change has been truly breathtaking. The transition from analog to digital image acquisition is now in full swing, and in modalities such as CT and MRI it is nearly universal. This dramatic change in the medical imaging world has brought with it serious ramifications for medical imaging economics.
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- The Gantry Group: Better Information, Better Care, Better Health, 2007
This paper examines how healthcare providers can leverage their information to achieve better care, improve care outcomes, lower operational costs, and secure higher service reimbursements. Business and governmental regulation changes have catalyzed a literal healthcare information explosion.
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Press Articles
- Business Continuity: Facilities Tackle Terabytes , Health Imaging & IT, August 1, 2007
Healthcare facilities are constantly increasing the amount of data they have to manage and store securely. From an increase in patient volume to more and more modalities that create larger datasets, double-digit growth year to year is not unusual. But a wide range of solutions for high data availability and redundancy offer a means to limit downtime as much as possible—if even at all.
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