Richardson Regional Medical Center Selects Bycast and IBM

Bycast Inc., a
provider of grid-powered storage management software, announced that Richardson Regional Medical Center has standardized on
Bycast StorageGRID storage management software to store and protect
Richardson Regional’s mission critical reference data within its
enterprise archive. IBM’s Storage business delivers the Bycast software
to market as part of its Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS).

When its Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
archive needed additional capacity, Richardson Regional turned to
Bycast and IBM to provide a solution that ensures the
integrity, availability, and security of its confidential data in
accordance with the federal government’s Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations.

Richardson Regional is now utilizing Bycast StorageGRID software
within IBM GMAS configurable information lifecycle management policies
to store the data automatically at the right location, on the right
storage tier, at the right time — creating a cost-effective storage
solution. The storage system distributes data across two campuses,
allowing doctors and other medical personnel fast access and highly
available service from both Richardson Regional locations using the
existing wide-area network.

"Previously, we used to mirror PACS images to our Bush/Renner
campus. This required a high bandwidth connection and did not insure
that the images remained unchanged over time", says Ron Franquiz,
Richardson Regional Chief Information Officer. "The automatic and
efficient replication of images to our second campus and the long-term
data integrity that StorageGRID provides were extremely important to
us. Leveraging existing storage resources was also a key financial
factor in our decision."

Bycast StorageGRID, running within the IBM GMAS solution, allows
Richardson Regional to utilize its current storage infrastructure,
leveraging its existing investment and ensuring future storage
requirements can be integrated seamlessly. Richardson Regional
purchased eighteen terabytes of additional online protected storage,
which will all be managed by GMAS.

"We are pleased that our storage management system helps
Richardson Regional improve patient care by ensuring critical data is
always available quickly and reliably", said Tim Chunn, Director
Strategic Accounts, Bycast Inc. "StorageGRID is ensuring the protection
and availability of their data on a large scale — their users trust
the system to pull both new data and older data quickly without any
worry about data corruption or performance issues — their vital data
is always there when they need it."

"The seamless integration of Bycast StorageGRID software and our
industry leading servers, storage, services and solution support is
what truly delivers value to growing healthcare clients like Richardson
Regional Medical Center," said Hugh Rivers, Business Line Executive,
Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions, IBM Systems and Technology
Group. "GMAS delivers our customers a solution that is cost effective,
highly automated and easy to manage over time."

Richardson Regional Medical Center

Bycast Inc.

IBM Corp.