Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J Fieb who wrote (3948)	8/30/2001 8:56:44 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

Qwest, GE make medical data deal By Reuters August 30, 2001, 1:45 p.m. PT NEW YORK--Voice and data services company Qwest Communications International said on Thursday it formed an exclusive, multiyear agreement with a General Electric unit to provide hospitals with a way to store and retrieve electronic medical data, such as X-rays, at near instantaneous speeds. Qwest and GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, the clinical information management unit of GE, estimated the service would generate more than $250 million in revenues but did not specify how the sales would be divided. Through the secure, high-speed fiber-optic network, electronic medical data can be transferred in real time between sites in a large hospital network. These connections can significantly reduce the time associated with transferring paper and film-based records, while lowering the investment for health care providers, the companies said. GE will offer this service to hospitals and health care systems, while Qwest will store and manage the medical data, the companies said. "Qwest's global, reliable and high-speed broadband network, as well as our secure CyberCenters, give us the unique ability to offer GE Medical the hosting, storage, archiving and bandwidth to deliver to hospitals and doctors around the world," said Joel Arnold, executive vice president of Qwest Global Business Markets. GE began offering the so-called application services last year and has been working with radiology and cardiology units in more than 50 health care sites in the United States. It plans to expand these products to every clinical department in a hospital by 2003. Story Copyright © 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

To: J Fieb who wrote (3948)	8/31/2001 10:54:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4808

Cox Adds Dell To Its Storage Lineup Cable and telecom company will implement storage area network to link to dell servers By Martin J. Garvey (mgarvey@cmp.com) for at least five years, common wisdom and EMC Corp. have maintained that using a heterogeneous storage system to support all types of servers makes more sense than matching vendors' storage systems with their respective server platforms. Doing so saves money, reduces complexity, and increases efficiency. Not so, says Scott Hatfield, senior VP and CIO of Cox Communications Inc., a $3 billion cable TV and telecom services vendor in Atlanta. "It means more efficiency of storage, but complexity for each server environment," he says. His reasoning? With consolidated storage, every administrator has to understand each server platform, and every time a change is made to the storage system, all servers must be upgraded. "I see no clear benefits for sharing Unix and Windows data," Hatfield says. That's why Cox has EMC storage supporting Sun Solaris servers and IBM storage supporting IBM E Server iSeries (formerly AS/400) servers. Now, Cox is throwing Dell's storage systems into the mix. By the end of this month, Cox will add 3.5 terabytes of storage capacity for as many as 300 Dell PowerEdge servers running multiple versions of Windows. Cox also is adding a Dell storage area network--the Dell PowerVault SAN--so it can connect as few as five storage systems to all its Dell servers. "We looked at direct attached storage for all those servers--backing them up and monitoring the capacity would be costly and labor-intensive," Hatfield says. Dell Technology Consulting is working with Cox to implement the SAN, which will be based on PowerVault 660F Fibre Channel storage arrays, PowerVault 530F SAN appliances, and other hardware such as Fibre Channel switches. When the SAN is in production this fall, it should help Cox provide better customer service, Hatfield says. The Fibre Channel-based SAN moves data at speeds of 100 Mbytes per second, compared with the speeds of 20 Mbytes per second Cox gets with standard SCSI. Quite a few HBAs & a good number of switch ports for this one COX location. WOuldn't be surporsed if this DELL part of the system is a larger fabric than the EMC storage and SUNW servers, and the IBM server/ storage parts?