Storage – the next generation.

Posted by Martin P in Infrastructure      No comments

Nov
14

There has in recent years been much talk about the data volume explosion as modalities develop.  Only a few short years ago, a PACS with 10TB of storage was a special event, while nowadays, a middle-sized hospital must start at 10TB.

But storage technology has more than kept pace.  The LaCies and the Iomegas of the world (although by no means exclusively), have shown that it is possible to provide a multi-TB archive on a shoestring.  But those products are designed for small business and home use – not ‘Enterprise’ facilities, where a whole different level of management and reliability is required.  This is the world of SAN, where fibre channel devices make it possible to transparently replicate data between two sites kilometers apart, and every IO path has a redundant partner.  In this world, where the likes of EMC and Hitachi live, storage is still a matter of 100s of €000.

Enter IQStor, who seemingly can provide 52TB (raw, before RAID) of storage in only 4U of server space and which includes all the high-level SAN functionality you might want. And this for $35k.

Just in time for Christmas.