SUNNYVALE, Calif. and BOSTON,
Mass.-November 28, 2011- The healthcare industry is at a
data-management crossroads, driven by the exponential growth of
patient data, tighter federal and industry regulations, shrinking
IT budgets, and the transition to electronic health records.
Healthcare organizations are challenged to control data growth and
manage large content repositories, cut storage costs, improve
disaster recovery, and eliminate the barriers between accessing and
sharing clinical and patient data and medical images to continue
delivering the highest quality of patient care.
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Iron Mountain Incorporated
(NYSE: IRM) today announced a partnership to provide healthcare
organizations with a secure cloud-based solution for medical data
archiving and disaster recovery. Iron Mountain is currently the
only healthcare-focused member of the NetApp Service Provider
Partner Program, which was officially launched in June 2010 and was
the first of its kind in the storage industry.
Building on their collaboration under this
program, the two companies will integrate
NetApp® StorageGRID® object storage software with two
Iron Mountain medical data archiving solutions - the
Digital Record Center® for Medical Images and its
vendor neutral archive offering - to provide healthcare
organizations with consolidated archiving and disaster recovery
offerings that help deliver improved medical care to their
patients.
Cloud-based archiving and disaster recovery,
with its greater levels of flexibility, scalability, access, and
security of complex and diverse big-data assets, can help eliminate
issues around system interoperability and disaster recovery by
moving data offsite and keeping it independent of existing systems.
The joint NetApp and Iron Mountain solutions bring to market
innovative cloud offerings that enable healthcare organizations
to:
- Control storage growth and reduce costs. Cloud
storage offers a secure and accessible "pay-as-you-go" model, with
healthcare organizations using only what they need and avoiding the
large capital expenses required for long-term, on-premise storage
solutions. Storage-related operating costs are typically 3 to 4
times the cost of maintaining the hardware involved; cloud storage
addresses these operating costs with a lower-cost approach.
- Improve disaster recovery and compliance.
Moving data offsite into the cloud means faster recoverability in
the event of a disaster while minimizing the cost and risk of data
loss. Also, it allows organizations to meet current HIPAA
compliance standards that require a disaster recovery plan and
policies for protecting that data.
- Reduce management complexity. IT departments
no longer have to manage multiple storage systems and the
interoperability challenges they present. As a result, medical data
is liberated, making it easier to access and share information
across the entire continuum of care. And, as a managed service,
data is automatically and continuously moved offsite and archived,
freeing IT staff and resources from managing data centers, or
back-up and archiving tasks to focus on clinical and
revenue-generating activities.
Supporting Quotes
- Ken Rubin, senior vice president and general manager
for Healthcare, Iron Mountain
"The explosion of clinical, patient, and imaging data and shrinking
budgets have boxed many healthcare organizations into a corner,
straining their storage capacity and IT resources to the limit. The
answer is cloud-based storage and archiving. Iron Mountain's
medical image archiving offerings deliver the best of all worlds:
unlimited capacity on a pay-as-you-go basis with improved off-site
disaster recovery that is more cost effective and less complicated
than doing it yourself. And, through our partnership with NetApp,
we can deliver a variety of service options, including our hybrid
cloud service, all with extremely high security and reliability
that is transparent to clinicians."
- Dave Nesvisky, senior director of Healthcare Sales and
Business Development, NetApp
"Empowering our customers to effectively manage their unstructured
data and make it accessible in the care process and across the
continuum of care with cloud services is strategic to NetApp's
go-to-market healthcare charter. We chose to partner with an
industry leader like Iron Mountain because they enable us to
deliver an innovative solution to our healthcare customers that
solves their archiving and disaster recovery needs. This in turn
allows our customers to focus on delivering the highest quality of
service and care to positively affect patients' outcomes. Applying
technology in such a way that it provides a meaningful impact to so
many is what we're striving to accomplish with our healthcare
practice."
To learn more about how to improve medical
imaging archiving and data recovery, visit NetApp and Iron Mountain
at the RSNA 2011 show in North Building, Hall B at booth #9412.
Additional Resources
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions
that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business
breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and
consistently being recognized as a great place to work around the
world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success, as well
as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster
at www.netapp.com.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information
management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks
and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The
company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use
their information-regardless of its format, location or lifecycle
stage-so they can optimize their business and ensure proper
recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain
manages billions of information assets, including business records,
electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organizations
around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com or follow the company
on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.
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