Data Storage

Understanding Healthcare Private Cloud vs Hosted Private Cloud

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are rapidly adopting the cloud as its flexibility continues to prove its worth against the influx of clinical data and as cloud security measures improve. Many entities are more...

Genomic Data Compression Eases Cloud Data Migration, Storage

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Geneformics Data Systems announced the release of its distributed cloud compression solution Geneformics D to improve cloud data migration speeds and data storage. Geneformics D aims to increase...

Tape Storage Advancements Aid HIT Infrastructure Data Demands

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations continue to store much of their data on tapes in the face of evolving cloud technology because it is easy to control and secure. Tape storage is also evolving as vendors...

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Improves Health IT ROI

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Chelsio Communications announced that its line of Terminator 5 & 6 (T5 & T6) 1/10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) iWARP (RDMA/TCP) enabled unified wire adapters have been validated to...

Solid-State Array Supports Future Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Solid-state array (SSA) storage is growing in healthcare as organizations seek scalable and flexible storage options for increasingly digitized health IT infrastructure. Gartner predicted in its 2017...

Actifio Tools Help Organizations Deduplicate Migrated Data

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Actifio and Tier4 Advisors announced their partnership to bring Actifio’s enterprise data-as-a-service (EDaaS) to Tier4 clients, including healthcare organizations. Actifio’s tools assist...

IBM Bare Metal Servers Support Healthcare Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced the availability of its bare metal servers on the IBM cloud, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors to support healthcare analytics. Healthcare organizations are currently demanding...

Cloud Deployments Require Data Center Networking Adjustment

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare data centers are experiencing changes as digitized IT infrastructure calls for flexible and agile data center networking solutions. Traditionally, organizations use a scalable LAN to...

Healthcare Data Migration Benefits from Cloud Tools

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Every organization will undergo major and minor healthcare data migrations as clinical data needs to be moved to more advanced and scalable storage solutions. Understanding the data so the migration...

How All-Flash Arrays Can Benefit Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare organizations continue to prepare for health IT infrastructure digitization, all-flash arrays (AFAs) are becoming more relevant as a primary storage platform because they can host a...

Pure Storage Upgrades Flash Array for Healthcare Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Pure Storage announced upgrades to its FlashBlade product line, including the release of its all-flash S3 object store upgrade, which is aimed at big data and advanced healthcare analytics. The...

Overcoming Healthcare Hybrid Cloud Storage Challenges

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Hybrid cloud storage environments are a reality for healthcare organizations seeking to digitize their health IT infrastructure. However, many entities are challenged when deciding which workloads and...

IBM DBaaS Toolkit Supports Open Source Cloud Databases

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced the release of its new Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) toolkit, Open Platform for DBaaS on IBM Power Systems. The toolkit is for open source databases to provide developers and IT...

Peak 10 Expands DRaas Service Lengthening Recovery History

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Peak 10 announced upgrades to its disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) Recovery Cloud with a new failback expansion feature called Extended Journaling. The new feature allows organizations to expand...

IBM Developing Faster Flash Storage Solution Protocols

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced development of its Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) to speed data exchange between IT infrastructure systems and flash storage solutions. The tool will provide lower IT infrastructure...

Network Connectivity, Storage Challenge Healthcare IoT Push

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The growth in value of healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) analytics pressures organizations to examine their IT infrastructures and assess how they can support the influx of healthcare IoT data and...

Data Science Orgs Form GPU Initiative for Data Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai, and MapD Technologies announced the formation of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) to establish common data frameworks to support data analytics. The...

GPU-Based Collaboration Provides Advanced Database Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Fuzzy Logix and Kinetica announced a partnership to release a joint solution allowing customers to leverage high performing advanced database analytics. The new option will target the most time...

Future-Proof IT Infrastructure Needs Vendor Neutral Archives

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Vendor neutral archives (VNAs) allow healthcare organizations to consolidate and digitally transform their IT infrastructures to integrate imaging systems that were originally built and implemented for...

Ivanti Expands Data Center IT Asset Management for Visibility

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Ivanti announced the release of its software asset management (SAM) tool Data Center Discovery as part of its IT asset management, allowing organizations increased visibility into the data center. The...