Deduplication Trend Eases the Strain of Medical Records Storage

One of the keys to affordable healthcare is the ability to store and stream high-volume electronic medical records. To prevent runaway storage growth, healthcare providers must ensure that medical data is only stored once. PBG is taking the lead in helping healthcare industries to eliminate the duplicate data problem through deduplication, the process of recognizing – and rejecting – redundant data objects.

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Bellmawr, NJ (Vocus) November 18, 2009

One of the keys to affordable healthcare is the ability to store and stream electronic medical records, providing physicians, hospitals, HMOs, and other practitioners with information relevant to diagnosing and treating patients.

To prevent runaway storage growth, healthcare providers must ensure that medical data is only stored once. For example, X-rays and other images contain a lot of duplicate data objects – resulting in wasted storage. When these images are replicated or backed up, the duplicate objects are themselves duplicated, thus exacerbating the storage problem.

PBG helps eliminate the duplicate data problem through deduplication, the process of recognizing – and rejecting – redundant data objects. PBG employs leading-edge deduplication technology from NetApp to enable enterprises clients to:

Reduce their initial storage spend;
Prolong the interval between storage upgrades;
Increase data transmission speed and lower bandwidth requirements; and
Store more data online, for longer periods.

One of PBG’s clients is MobilexUSA, America's leading provider of mobile imaging services. MobilexUSA is responsible for conducting, digitizing, and storing millions of electronic x-rays, ultrasounds, and electrocardiograms, delivering that information – on demand and within seconds – to radiologists and other specialists located across the country and around the world. Deduplication helps MobilexUSA manage their storage growth while continuing to provide fast and reliable service to their customers.

For more information, please contact PBG at 856-931-1604, x111 or, via e-mail at info(at)pbgnetworks.com. To download a copy of the MobilexUSA case study, click on Case Study.

Founded in 1996, PBG, Inc. provides storage systems and storage management services to enterprise clients. As one of its specialties, PBG employs virtualization technology to improve storage utilization and control storage costs.

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