PBG teams with NetApp to store and stream electronic medical records www.pbgnetworks.com 1/11/2010 Case Study January 2010 -- Bellmawr, NJ – One of the keys to affordable healthcare is the ability to store and stream electronic medical records, providing physicians, hospitals, HMOs, and other practitioners with information relevant to diagnosing medical conditions, and evaluating and treating patients. As America's leading provider of mobile imaging services, MobilexUSA is responsible for conducting, digitizing, and storing millions of electronic x-rays, ultrasounds, and electrocardiograms, delivering that information – on demand and within seconds – to radiologists and other specialists located across the country and around the world. Storing and streaming medical records as complex as x-rays requires a robust and reliable storage infrastructure. Knowing the need to upgrade his storage environment to meet current, as well as future, requirements, Dave Kelble, Vice President of Information Technology for MobilexUSA, began investigating various long-term storage solutions. To facilitate the selection process, Dave established three basic criteria. The solution should: 1. Feature enterprise architecture, permitting a consistent presentation of storage across the enterprise, and enabling centralized storage administration. 2. Support site-to-site data replication for disaster recovery and performance purposes; and 3. Scale to satisfy increased demand, providing “a platform that would allow us to grow;” in particular, a platform capable of accommodating the company’s acquisition-related expansion strategy. Dave adopted a provider-neutral approach to storage selection, evaluating perennial market leaders like EMC and HP, along with highly-regarded challengers like NetApp. After carefully considering his options, Dave selected NetApp because they offered a: 1. Single, highly-extensible product line that helps eliminate hardware growing pains; and 2. A consistent software interface that allows Dave’s staff, for example, to invoke the same replication software even as their hardware environment expands. As Dave explains, “With other vendors you can only grow so far, and then you have to jump to another product line.” With NetApp, an enterprise can enlarge its storage pool indefinitely, with virtually no operational disruptions, and no software changes, helping to alleviate any on-going training issues. In selecting NetApp, Dave relied on PBG, Inc., one of NetApp’s premier partners, to coordinate the sale, supervise the installation, and offer supplemental integration services. According to Dave, PBG was “very supportive” during the installation process, permitting MobilexUSA to “move at our own pace.” Dave also praises PBG for their “understanding of what I wanted to do,” plus their ability to offer a business continuity plan designed to protect MobilexUSA’s storage investment. Scott Brousseau, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of PBG, observes that: “PBG is a true value-added reseller, augmenting vendor products with support services, ranging from network security to virtualization.” Founded in 1996, PBG, Inc. provides storage systems and storage management services to enterprise clients. As one of its specialties, PBG employs virtualization technology to improve storage utilization and control storage costs. www.pbgnetworks.com 2009-11-02T16:42:00Z 4 image/gif itec_header_roll.gif 5105 2010-01-18T15:17:03Z 2010-01-18T15:17:08Z