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CoActiv will showcase at HIMSS 2008 its innovative EXAM-VAULT data storage system, nrivaled for accessibility, reliability, security and cost-effective pricing


CoActiv , the advanced image management and storage company, will showcase at HIMSS 2008 its innovative EXAM-VAULT data storage system, unrivaled for accessibility, reliability, security and cost-effective pricing. EXAM-VAULT provides innovative QUAD-REDUNDANT ARCHIVING, which stores every study in four geographically distant locations for superior disaster protection. It also provides immediate business continuity, restoring data access in emergency situation in seconds. With the EXAM-VAULT system, an EXAM-SERVER is typically is located at the image site to store recent images for six to 12 months, enabling ultra-fast online data availability.

Additional online storage is accomplished at two state-of-the-art-data centers housing redundantmirrored multi-terabyte RAID arrays. These are a CoActiv class-A datacenter in Tarrytown, NY, the former Union Carbide World Headquarters built by IBM, and a CoActiv Level Communications Tier-IV center in Stamford, CT, which benefits from the resources of one of the largest communications and Internet backbones worldwide. Both centers reside on different power grids and Internet peering points to ensure emergency coverage.

Exams are also archived permanently to two copies of removable spinning media. As a managed service, EXAM-VAULT shifts the burden of all archive system maintenance to CoActiv IT ex perts. CoActiv ’s commitment to ongoing upgrades to state-of-the-art technology makes obsolescence is a thing of the past. CoActiv EXAM-VAULT can be integrated with other PACS solutions for only pennies per exam, offering an affordable and highly scalable archiving solution for radiology departments and practices of any size. It comes with a 100 percent Up- Time Archive guarantee.

Source: CoActiv Medical