Nexsan Storage for

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Nexsan Storage for PACS Customers
Massimo Calabrese Assureon Overlay Team
Europe Phone [phone] Email
m.calabrese_at_nexsan.it URL www.nexsan.com
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NEXSAN Today

• Company
• Established in 1999
• Privately held
• Headquartered CA, USA
• Factories and support in CA, USA
• and Derby, UK
• RD near Oxford, UK
• and Montreal, Quebec
• US European presence
• Sales worldwide

• NEXSAN Today
• Over 22,000 systems installed
• Over 6,000 satisfied customers
• Extensive Global Fortune 100
• install base
• Proven OEM customer base
• Established, Tested and Proven
• Global Support
• Leading developer of secure
• storage, archive and ILM software
• NEXSAN owns all of its IP

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Nexsan Healthcare Customers
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Nexsan Secure Archive Product

• ASSUREON
• The Ideal Archiving Solution for Medical Images
  Records
• Direct Competitor to EMC Centera
• More Capabilities
• Faster Performance
• Better Price

Storage Magazine Security Product of the Year
June 06
Computer Technology Review Editors Choice Nov
05
ITPRO Editors Choice Jan 07
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Nexsan SATA Products for Primary

• 3U System
• Up to 14 TB
• Dual Controller

SATABoy

• 4U System
• Up to 42 TB
• Dual Controller

SATABeast

• Comes with
• No Single Point of Failure
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI
• Dual Power Supplies
• Redundant fans
• Green Technology (Reduce Heat Save Power)

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Archive to Tape is not the answer Archive to
Assureon is the answer
Older Tape Technologies Dont Work
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Assureon Components

• Assureon Secure and Intelligent Archive
  Appliance
• Includes
• Assureon software running on integrated server or
  cluster of servers
• SATA RAID disk system(s)
• All networking and cabling accessories
• All components are independently scalable

Assureon Processing Nodes and Storage Nodes are
pre-installed and fully tested
Processing Nodes (Fully Scalable )
Disk Storage Nodes (Fully Scalable)
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Why Use Assureon?

• Main Capabilities for Health Care Market
• Fast Access
• Get Medical Personnel the info they need when
  they need it
• Self Managing
• Assureon runs lights out. It manages and
  audits when files (images) are ingested
  validating that the data gets to where its
  suppose to go and it is intact. Files are always
  there
• Self Diagnosis Self Healing
• Assureon transparently checks the integrity of
  the stored images and automatically self-heals if
  any corruption occurs
• Business Continuance
• Always be operational with Assureon remote
  replication
• Site A down, Site B is active for both reads and
  writes
• Protection Against
• Accidental or deliberate deletion
• Viruses, worms and tampering
• Inserting false files , date or time

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Why Use Assureon?

• Meeting Regulations and Legal Best Practices
• No Tampering with Data
• WORM (write once read many) technology built into
  the system
• Meets Compliance Regulations
• User Audit
• Assureon tracks all users and applications that
  access Images. (HIPAA)
• Privacy
• Encryption of Images and Files over the life of
  the information (HIPAA)
• Access Control
• Assureon is the policy enforcement point that
  controls access to information with full seamless
  integration to MS Active Directory (HIPAA)
• Legal Best Practices
• Ability to place retention periods and dispose of
  information at the end of its life
• Images and files can be placed on Legal Hold
  during e-discovery

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IT Considerations

• Replication
• Assureon can replicate locally and to Remote
  Locations
• Files immediately accessible in case of Disaster
• Scalable
• Flexible Architecture
• - Storage Capacity and Performance Nodes can be
  scaled independently based upon the needs of the
  customer
• Assureon automatically load balances between
  nodes for maximum performance
• Ease of Implementation
• Transparent to End User
• Web based Management Console
• Self-Managing
• Fault Tolerance
• Assureon has integrated RAID protected storage
• Assureon employs redundant clustered networking
• Assureon mirrors all data stored either locally
  or to a remote location

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Unlimited Scalability Flexibility
Independently Scale- Processing Nodes- Storage
Nodes Self-Healing Replication- Local
Replication- Remote Replication- Both Local
Remote Replication
Processing Nodes
Storage Nodes
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PACs with Nexsan Primary Online Storage
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access
PACS System
PACs Image Server
ONLINE
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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PACs with Nexsan Primary Online Nexsan
Archived Storage
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access
PACS System
PACs Image Server
ARCHIVE
ONLINE
Nexsan Assureon Disk Storage (Scalable 4TB to
Unlimited)
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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PACs with Nexsan Primary Online Nexsan
Archived Replicated Storage
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access
Replicated via IP LAN/WAN to DR Site
PACS System
PACs Image Server
ARCHIVE
ReplicatedARCHIVE
ONLINE
Nexsan Assureon Disk Storage (Scalable 4TB to
Unlimited)
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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PACs Nexsan Workflow (Ingest)
Assureon Services Performed on Server(s)
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access

• Maintains Audit trails
• Reporting
• Encryption (optional)
• Disposition

• Set Policies
• Security Access
• Self-diagnosis
• Self-healing
• Replication

PACs System
PACs Image Server
ARCHIVE
ONLINE
Archive Copy 1
Archive Copy 2
Nexsan Assureon Disk Storage (Scalable 4TB to
Unlimited)
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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PACs Nexsan Workflow (Ingest)
Assureon Services Performed on Server(s)
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access

• Maintains Audit trails
• Reporting
• Encryption (optional)
• Disposition

• Set Policies
• Security Access
• Self-diagnosis
• Self-healing Replication

Replicated via IP LAN/WAN to DR Site
PACs System
PACs Image Server
ARCHIVE
ReplicatedARCHIVE
ONLINE
Archive Copy 1
Archive Copy 2
Nexsan Assureon Disk Storage (Scalable 4TB to
Unlimited)
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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PACs Nexsan Workflow (Read Images)
PACs reads image from Online Storage After
image is purged from Online, PACs reads from
Archive Directory/Assureon
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access
Replicated via IP LAN/WAN to DR Site
PACs System
PACs Image Server
ARCHIVE
ReplicatedARCHIVE
ONLINE
Archive Copy 1
Archive Copy 2
Nexsan Assureon Disk Storage (Scalable 4TB to
Unlimited)
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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PACs Nexsan Workflow (Read Images)
PACs reads image from Online Storage After
image is purged from Online, PACs reads from
Archive Directory/Assureon If Site1 is down,
site2 can be made active, then PACs transparently
reads image from site2. When site1 is back up,
self-healing takes place
Modalities (MRI, CT, PET, etc.)Dicom Formatted
Images
Web based Viewing Access
Replicated via IP LAN/WAN to DR Site
PACs System
PACs Image Server
ARCHIVE
ReplicatedARCHIVE
ONLINE
Archive Copy 1
Archive Copy 2
Nexsan Assureon Disk Storage (Scalable 4TB to
Unlimited)
Nexsan SATABeast
Ethernet Network
Fibre Channel
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Assureon vs Centera
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Nexsan Storage for PACS Customers
Massimo Calabrese Assureon Overlay Team
Europe Phone [phone] Email
m.calabrese_at_nexsan.it URL www.nexsan.com