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Digital Archival ProgramNeville Pinto

Team Leader - Server & Storage Services

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healthAlliance

CountiesManukau

Waitemata

Service Level Agreements

Staff Service Centre

InformationServices

FinanceBusinessSolutions

Procurement and

Supply Chain

healthAlliance Shared Services

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Medical Image Archival

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Key Objectives• Archived images should always be accessible• Archive should be secure and tamper proof• Replace obsolete and aging infrastructures• Cost reduction through consolidation• Improve retrieval times and reliability• Real-time automated disaster recovery• “On demand” capacity growth• Multi PACS vendor support• Provide a single unified multi-site archive• Business Continuity: no service disruptions, no

loss of data and automated migration

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• No backups required• Multi-vendor connectivity• Seamless Disaster Recovery• Hardware obsolescence

protection• “Grow as You Go” Scalability• Assured data protection with

WORM• Fast Performance• Lower total Cost of

Ownership• Single point of contact for

support

The Solution: Medical Archive Solution (MAS)

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RADIOLOGY CARDIOLOGY MAMMOGRAPHYModalities(CTs, MRIs,…) Workstations

D.R.(Film)

PACS

MAS

SAN

tape

D.R.(Film)

PACSD.R.(Film)

PACS

Modalities(CTs, MRIs,…) Workstations

Modalities(CTs, MRIs,…) Workstations

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The Solution: How does MAS work?

Client application (CIFS/NFS/DICOM or API)

Gateway nodes

DR site Storage Node

Admin / Gatewaynodes

Controlnodes

Storagenodes

METADATA

internal network

customer network

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The Outcome

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Total MAS Usage• Storage Used – 100TB+• Medical Images Archived – 40 million+

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Document Archival

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Key Objectives• Reduce email and file data stores• Improve email system efficiency and performance• Improve the recovery time of archived data• Ensure archive data is transparently accessible by

end users on-line• Improve the management and control of archived

data• Improve the searchability of archived data• Discontinue the use of PST files• Comply with regulatory requirements• Cost Reduction through consolidation• Business Continuity - no service disruptions, no

loss of data and automated migration

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The Solution: Integrated Archive Platform (IAP)

• Fully bundled

• “Active” Archiving solution

• Highly available & Disaster Proof

• De-duplication/Single-Instancing

• Scales while holding performance

• Search & retrieval time 3 -5 sec

• Tamper-proof out of the box

• Efficient web-based capabilities

• Compliance archiving

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The Solution: How does IAP Work?

Outlook Plug-In &

OWA Extension

Store

Retrieve

IAP

HTTP / HTTPS

SMTP

Exchange Servers

Archive Gateway

MAPI

StoreSMTP

PST Import Utility

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The Solution: Features

E-MAIL• Messages archived

based on business rules and policies

• Stub / tombstone created in place of the original message

• User retrieves the archived message as normal

FILE• Files archived based

on business rules and policies

• Archived files are always online

• Archiving transparent to all users

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Total IAP Usage

• WDHB– 1222 mailboxes archived to date– 692  PST’s ingested– 7 million + objects archived

• CMDHB– 928 mailboxes archived to date– 769  PST’s ingested– 6 million + objects archived

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IT

Unparalleled

Scalability

Operational

Stability

Reliability

e-Discovery

Built in

Indexing

Legal

Hold

High Performance Search

Defensible

Disposition

SingleInstanci

ng

HardwareMonitoring

RemoteManagement

IntegratedBackup

Software & Hardware SNMP Alerts

CentralizedAdmin

Interface

FactoryIntegrated

Built inReplication

RedundantPower

BUSINESS

Online Image

Retrieval

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Future Focus• Implementation of a regionally

agreed taxonomy

• Electronic Data Records Management System (EDRMS)

• E-mail record keeping with IAP based Compliance Archiving

• MAS refresh and upgrade

• Backup System Upgrade – Disk Staging with cross-site DR