Infortrend EonStor GS Scale-Out Unified Storage for Medical PACS Application

Infortrend Technology, Inc. developed EonStor GS scale-out unified storage to suit medical PACS application, allowing to expand capacity on demand and deliver simultaneous and nearly instant access to medical images for multiple workstations.

Medical organizations providing diagnostical imaging services encounter multiple things to consider when planning PACS with unstructured data. First, they need a HA storage able to serve multiple requests from healthcare professionals’ workstations as oftentimes clinical data is a crucial part of immediate patient care and it should not be subject to risks of slow storage access or downtime. Second, as soon as such need arises, storage must be capable to expand capacity and performance to store and operate petabyte-level clinical data.

EonStor GS enterprise unified storage is a solution for PACS operation. Its redundant dual-controller design ensures HA for uninterrupted PACS services. With the scale-out function, initial deployment can start with one GS, and as the organization’s data expands, more GSs can be added one by one (up to 4 appliances) to reach dozens of petabites capacity in a cluster. When the cluster expands, the GS joins a single namespace file system, and IT specialists won’t have to change any settings for PACS, which reduces IT management burden.

To quickly serve multiple random read data access requests from healthcare professionals’ Windows workstations, GS offers an all-flash model with U.2 NVMe SSD. In addition, GS supports cluster tier configuration to store current patients’ data on the GS, while old data is migrated to the entry-level GS, leaving data paths unchanged.

“GS scale-out storage allows multiple workstations to open PACS images within just 3~5 seconds, which benefits to improved PACS operational efficiency and diagnostic services,” said Frank Lee, senior director, product planning.

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