The OST difference:
- OST has multiple Master SAN Architects to assist in the design of ILM based storage solutions
- OST storage consultants can assist with the creation of a policy based retention solution and it’s integration within your overall storage architecture
- OST storage assessment services provides a best practice view of your storage environment (including management tools and infrastructure)
- OST’s approach lends itself to helping our customers determine the lowest cost, lowest risk and most robust solution for their environments
- OST maintains Elite status for Storage, Server and ILM based solutions. This is the highest certification HP offers its business partners.
- OST maintains certification for VMware and we’re highly skilled in designing storage solutions for server consolidation via virtualization
- OST is current on all major server and storage management tools
MEDICAL ARCHIVING FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
The Information Issue
The Healthcare industry is experiencing overwhelming growth and is exploding with unstructured information. Examples of this include lab results, email, paper correspondence, patient records (paper and digital), web content, imaging, application feeds, forms, reports, etc. According to the Yankee Group- this unstructured content is growing over 200% annually, with no end in site. This information growth is also heavily influenced by laws and regulations mandating policy-based data retention. As a result data archiving has emerged as the optimum solution. And that’s where data archiving (and OST) comes in.
The Solution
Data archiving is essentially the process of moving data from “expensive” storage to a “retention” platform. Archiving is not the same as backup or snapshots. A successful storage archive model is built upon a set of policy and management tools. Examples of these include:
- Rules for selecting and migrating data from production to retention storage
- Rules for applying data management services (security, WORM, replication, etc)
- Rules for deleting data
OST is highly focused on working with healthcare customers to architect storage archive solutions via the HP Medical Archive Solution (MAS). The MAS provides a secure long term archive for medical fixed content, allowing customers to grow over time with true hardware obsolescence protection. The HP MAS enables healthcare customers to facilitate compliance with regulations that govern access to patient data, as well as security, privacy and data portability. The MAS is an excellent solution for PACS (Picture Archive Communication System) and EHR (Electronic Health Record). Both of these applications produce data that can be characterized as fixed content, with very long retention periods. The HP MAS is certified by all major PACS suppliers assuring interoperability.
The HP Medical Archive Solution and OST storage consulting services are a great combination to bring this information challenge under control.
