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Cloud Storage Plays Role in Better Healthcare

The health care industry is one of the most regulated industries in the world, that has seen a massive conversion to digital records. Cloud storage seems to be the ideal match for health care, capable of retaining lifelong records of patients and the children of patients.

As noted in this article on Information Week, readily available medical history at the fingertips of a doctor using an iPad enables more patients to be seen in a day which results in better patient care. Without cloud storage, a hospital’s data center would be larger then the hospital itself.

"The need to retain data forever, and also be able to quickly gain access to information that has not been needed for years, breaks the traditional archive-to-tape way of thinking. At the same time though, healthcare organizations cannot afford to make all of this data available on production or even secondary storage. The obstacle is not only the dollars to acquire the original storage systems, but also the dollars to maintain a storage platform that may grow by 1,000X in just a few decades.”