Iron Mountain Fine-Tunes Cloud Storage for Medical Records
As data storage gets more sophisticated, with
intelligent tiering, automatic deduplication and other eminently useful
features, some vendors are beginning to fine-tune their storage products for
use in specific vertical markets such as health care and finance.
For example, Iron Mountain
on March 1 revealed a newly upgraded version of its cloud storage service
specifically for medical records. The company made the announcement at the HIMSS Healthcare IT Conference and
Exhibition in Boston.
IM's Digital Record
Center for Medical Images is
designed to back up and archive digital medical information, which often
includes large, bulky X-ray files.
Due to the important and sensitive nature of medical data, another level of
redundancy is built into the package.
IM claims that this specialized version of its service provides higher levels
of flexibility, increased scalability, and better access and security than its
standard cloud storage because it adds an optional on-site storage component to
work with the existing cloud service.
The company also said health care organizations can configure the service to
meet access and disaster recovery requirements.
Digital Record Center for Medical Images offers these new capabilities, as
listed by Iron Mountain:
New Service Options-three
service plans for meeting organizations' unique needs for protection and
redundancy: Mirrored Cloud, storing two copies of each medical image offsite;
Hybrid Cloud, storing one copy onsite and one offsite; and Hybrid Cloud2,
storing a single copy onsite and two copies offsite.
Data Shuttle Service-allows organizations to move large volumes of data
to Iron Mountain's data center faster than they could over the Internet.
Optional Onsite Storage-In addition to cloud storage, a copy of archived
data can also be stored onsite, enabling local access to archives while
providing a second copy for disaster-recovery purposes.
Digital Record Center for Medical Images is available now. For more information, go here.
