Download - Digital Archival Program
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Digital Archival ProgramNeville Pinto
Team Leader - Server & Storage Services
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healthAlliance
CountiesManukau
Waitemata
Service Level Agreements
Staff Service Centre
InformationServices
FinanceBusinessSolutions
Procurement and
Supply Chain
healthAlliance Shared Services
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Medical Image Archival
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Key Objectives• Archived images should always be accessible• Archive should be secure and tamper proof• Replace obsolete and aging infrastructures• Cost reduction through consolidation• Improve retrieval times and reliability• Real-time automated disaster recovery• “On demand” capacity growth• Multi PACS vendor support• Provide a single unified multi-site archive• Business Continuity: no service disruptions, no
loss of data and automated migration
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• No backups required• Multi-vendor connectivity• Seamless Disaster Recovery• Hardware obsolescence
protection• “Grow as You Go” Scalability• Assured data protection with
WORM• Fast Performance• Lower total Cost of
Ownership• Single point of contact for
support
The Solution: Medical Archive Solution (MAS)
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RADIOLOGY CARDIOLOGY MAMMOGRAPHYModalities(CTs, MRIs,…) Workstations
D.R.(Film)
PACS
MAS
SAN
tape
D.R.(Film)
PACSD.R.(Film)
PACS
Modalities(CTs, MRIs,…) Workstations
Modalities(CTs, MRIs,…) Workstations
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The Solution: How does MAS work?
Client application (CIFS/NFS/DICOM or API)
Gateway nodes
DR site Storage Node
Admin / Gatewaynodes
Controlnodes
Storagenodes
METADATA
internal network
customer network
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The Outcome
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Total MAS Usage• Storage Used – 100TB+• Medical Images Archived – 40 million+
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Document Archival
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Key Objectives• Reduce email and file data stores• Improve email system efficiency and performance• Improve the recovery time of archived data• Ensure archive data is transparently accessible by
end users on-line• Improve the management and control of archived
data• Improve the searchability of archived data• Discontinue the use of PST files• Comply with regulatory requirements• Cost Reduction through consolidation• Business Continuity - no service disruptions, no
loss of data and automated migration
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The Solution: Integrated Archive Platform (IAP)
• Fully bundled
• “Active” Archiving solution
• Highly available & Disaster Proof
• De-duplication/Single-Instancing
• Scales while holding performance
• Search & retrieval time 3 -5 sec
• Tamper-proof out of the box
• Efficient web-based capabilities
• Compliance archiving
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The Solution: How does IAP Work?
Outlook Plug-In &
OWA Extension
Store
Retrieve
IAP
HTTP / HTTPS
SMTP
Exchange Servers
Archive Gateway
MAPI
StoreSMTP
PST Import Utility
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The Solution: Features
E-MAIL• Messages archived
based on business rules and policies
• Stub / tombstone created in place of the original message
• User retrieves the archived message as normal
FILE• Files archived based
on business rules and policies
• Archived files are always online
• Archiving transparent to all users
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Total IAP Usage
• WDHB– 1222 mailboxes archived to date– 692 PST’s ingested– 7 million + objects archived
• CMDHB– 928 mailboxes archived to date– 769 PST’s ingested– 6 million + objects archived
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IT
Unparalleled
Scalability
Operational
Stability
Reliability
e-Discovery
Built in
Indexing
Legal
Hold
High Performance Search
Defensible
Disposition
SingleInstanci
ng
HardwareMonitoring
RemoteManagement
IntegratedBackup
Software & Hardware SNMP Alerts
CentralizedAdmin
Interface
FactoryIntegrated
Built inReplication
RedundantPower
BUSINESS
Online Image
Retrieval
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Future Focus• Implementation of a regionally
agreed taxonomy
• Electronic Data Records Management System (EDRMS)
• E-mail record keeping with IAP based Compliance Archiving
• MAS refresh and upgrade
• Backup System Upgrade – Disk Staging with cross-site DR