CentrePath Customer Wins Prestigious Storage Industry Award; Leading Healthcare Facility Receives Storage Networking World's Best Practices In Storage Award For Systems Implementation of Optical and Storage Networks.WALTHAM,Mass. -- For the second consecutive time, CentrePath, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent management solutions for optical and storage networks, announced that one of its customers was honored by Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. (SNW SNW Snow SNW Strange New Worlds (Star Trek) SNW Social Networking Website SNW Sub Networks SNW Storage Networking World ), IDG's Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) for the Best Practices In Storage award program. One of CentrePath's healthcare customers was named as the winner within the Systems Implementation category for the successful design, implementation and management of optical and storage networking technology to significantly improve the speed and quality of patient care. This customer leverages CentrePath's network management expertise and technology to deliver high levels of service availability across its healthcare network. This leading hospital and research facility implemented optical and storage networking technology during the fourth quarter of 2005 to support growing network bandwidth and business continuity requirements. CentrePath anticipates this project will have a return on investment in year 2, with significant cost savings over the next several years. Two networks were implemented; one to support the imaging requirements for several sites, and the other to support synchronous data Synchronous data Information available at the same time. To test option-pricing models, the price of the option and of the underlying should be synchronous and reflect the same moment in the market. replication and remote disaster recovery. The network connecting the specialty care sites is designed to leverage PACS (Picture ArChiving System) A storage and management system for high-resolution images. Typically pertaining to the medical field, images such as X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans require a greater amount of storage than other industries. , electronic medical records, video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. , continuing medical education continuing medical education See CME. , and centralized desktop management. This system will provide immediate access to medical information, improving both the speed and quality of patient care. The second network - the disaster recovery network - provides synchronous connectivity between the main data center and a remote recovery data center, improving recovery times in the event of a disaster and better preserving patient data and records. As a result, CentrePath estimates that unplanned downtime should be significantly reduced. "We are honored to be working with some of the world's most prestigious healthcare facilities as they are recognized for their leadership in IT," said Jim Sullivan For other persons named Jim Sullivan, see Jim Sullivan (disambiguation). Jim Sullivan was a Welsh rugby league player. The Wigan full-back, a prodigious goalkicker, scored 6,022 points in a career that spanned 25 years. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at CentrePath. "We are committed to working with our customers to leverage technology and management solutions to support improved patient safety and exceptional patient care." More About SNW's Best Practices in Storage Awards This prestigious industry award backed by SNW, Computerworld, and SNIA honors companies that have applied exemplary storage networking solutions to provide a strategic advantage to their organizations. Recipients were selected from hundreds of entries from a wide range of IT users and system integrators across multiple industries. About CentrePath CentrePath helps organizations build and manage their optical and storage networks. Through the delivery of intelligent management solutions, CentrePath improves service availability while reducing the ongoing costs associated with the management of these critical networks. CentrePath's solutions meet the data transport and ongoing management requirements of business continuity, network convergence, and storage-intensive applications. CentrePath is located in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.centrepath.com, email info@centrepath.com, or phone 781.902.5100. CentrePath and Magellan are registered trademarks of CentrePath, Inc. All other brand and product names contained in this release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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