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and databases,” says Brede. “Our Clinic Information System (CIS) has been known to automatically process five million data records; that’s where the controller architecture is a particular advantage.” The clinic has further optimized its CIS with its own in-house developments so that data can be obtained even more quickly.


Due to their price advantage, the SATA drives integrated in the Adaptable Modular Storage system offer higher net storage capacity compared to other products. The clinic has access to a capacity of about 20TB in total, 60% of which is presently being used.


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current plans, this capacity is sufficient for the next two years.


High Speed Archiving and Storage with Data Integrity The relatively long interval to the next upgrade is partly due to the archiving software. The


Systems like Hitachi Content Platform make it possible to change a defective drive, which is signaled automatically by the system, without interrupting operations.


Drives also don’t deteriorate like tapes or DVDs, for


PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) data are densely compressed; Wilhelmstift’s data volume over nine years can be compressed into about 1TB.


The clinic has been using the Hitachi Content Platform hardware since March 2010. According to Brede, the archiving system requirements can be quickly summarized: “The Hitachi Content Platform sits there and operates: The decisive system for archiving is the software. However, a drive-based system is important to us due to the data retention time of up to 30 years.”


instance. This advantage enables hard drive archiving to safeguard data integrity and therefore is revision-safe and a faster solution.


The slow speed of a tape library server would theoretically constitute the difference between life and death in extreme casesdue to the slow availability of archived patient data. In daily routines, however, experience shows that another aspect plays a defining role: “The speed offered by the archiving system does relieve medical personnel to dedicate more time to the care of the patient,” says Brede. At the end of a day’s work, the Wilhelmstift IT Team can also enjoy the good feeling of having done something for the clinic’s small patients through their reliable and quick management of large data volumes.


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The slow speed of a tape library server would theoretically constitute the difference between life and death in extreme casesdue to the slow availability of archived patient data. In daily routines, however, experience shows that another aspect plays a defining role: “The speed offered by the archiving system does relieve medical personnel to dedicate more time to the care of the patient,”


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