Rorke Data has announced that GE Healthcare's Accessories Group has selected its Galaxy ADA DICOM appliance to provide a low-cost archiving system for hospitals, clinics, and imaging facilities.
Galaxy is a network-attached storage (NAS) system that combines the fault tolerance of a redundant array of inexpensive discs (RAID) using Panasonic's Advanced Disc for Archive (ADA) drive and encased Blu-ray Disc media to deliver long-life, high-capacity removable storage for HIPAA-compliant file archiving, according to Rorke Data. The company is unveiling the appliance in the GE Healthcare booth at the RSNA 2011 meeting in Chicago.
Galaxy provides GE customers who still use magneto-optical drives with an easy transition to state-of-the-art removable media storage technology, according to GE. It can be installed in less than an hour with minimal IT support using a Web-based user interface.
Galaxy is equipped with hot swappable 1 TB mirrored hard drives for redundancy. Its network-attached DICOM-compliant storage appliance is compatible with multiple imaging modalities and radiology workstations. Automatic archiving to ADA media transmissions is executed from a high-performance hard drive cache. The ADA media archive has an expected life of more than 50 years.
