Cerner selects Nirvanix

SAN DIEGO, California--Nirvanix has announced that Cerner will deploy as part of its Cerner Skybox solutions, a new on-demand managed storage service offering based on a Nirvanix Private Cloud Storage solution.

The Cerner Skybox Storage service enables Cerner's clients to consolidate PACs, radiology, lab, clinical systems, and patient records in a secure enterprise-grade cloud storage environment.

Cerner, a nearly $2 billion health care solutions provider, has initially deployed a multi-petabyte scalable private node of cloud storage located within its data centers, fully maintained as a service by Nirvanix. The Nirvanix Cloud File System enables Cerner to provide usage-based pricing for health care clients and a global namespace that helps ensure instant content access regardless of location.

With the Nirvanix private cloud storage solution, Cerner can offer clients enterprise-grade cloud storage designed from the ground up for data availability. This solution is capable of supporting millions of users and billions of objects, with built-in software capabilities that provide for continuous data consistency and a self-healing cloud that performs continuous data integrity checks on stored files and automatically repairs corrupt files.

"Our objective is to optimize processes and enable the use and sharing of information across the health care industry," said Tony Linville, vice president of Infrastructure Services at Cerner. "To that end, we are positioned to lead the way in the adoption of cloud storage in the health care industry. We believe that the economics and elasticity of cloud storage based on Nirvanix technologies will provide our clients a secure solution which eases collaboration and drives down costs."

Added Dave Vellante, president of IT think tank Wikibon.org: "Cerner is a thought leader and a visionary in the healthcare sector. This large-scale deployment is yet another strong indicator that cloud adoption is going increasingly mainstream. While many traditional health-care providers are struggling to figure out their cloud storage strategies, Cerner is driving innovation in the sector and focusing on delivering trusted cloud solutions today."

According to Scott Genereux, president and CEO, Nirvanix: "The benefits of the cloud are spreading across a multitude of industries. Our cloud storage technology is ideally suited for the health care industry as it was designed from the ground up to accommodate massive files, which is critical for the unstructured data that is so prevalent in this space."

Can you trust the cloud?

Nirvanix cloud storage technology also helps Cerner protect and secure personally identifiable health care information, helping ensure that files stored in the cloud are obscurificated as Nirvanix software de-identifies each physical file to remove the file name, owner and type.

Combined with military-grade, multi-level security at the user, data storage, and physical data center levels, Nirvanix helps enable Cerner to deliver advanced cloud storage service in production in the health care sector.

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