Venyu and InSite One Announce Partnership to Bring New Image Storage and Virtualization Solutions to Healthcare Providers

Hardware and software data backup and recovery leaders join forces to meet the demand for secure, reliable and always available PACS storage and recovery solutions 

Baton Rouge, LA and Wallingford, CT– March 1, 2010 – Venyu, a leader in commercial solutions for data protection, availability and recovery and InSite One, the market leader in medical data archiving, exchange, and business continuance solutions, today announced a joint partnership aimed at helping healthcare institutions and providers manage soaring amounts of electronic medical data. Venyu, a PHNS subsidiary, also brings expansion opportunity to the partnership through geographically-diverse, SAS70 qualified, datacenters.In the last five years, the amount of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) imaging and traditional electronic data generated in the healthcare industry has grown exponentially. In addition, HIPPA regulations have ushered in new regulations governing how data must be protected and accessed in the event of a human or natural disaster.   

“Advances in medical imaging technology, electronic medical records (EMR) and online medical collaboration between doctors, departments and specialists have created unique challenges for healthcare IT departments struggling to protect ever-growing amounts of electronic data,” said Venyu CEO Scott Thompson. “The Venyu and InSite One partnership will give hospitals and healthcare providers a powerful solution to tackle current and future data protection challenges with minimal disruption to existing environments.”  Venyu’s data protection and recovery solution is fully automated and maintains the highest industry standards for security, regulatory compliance, and recoverability. The Venyu Virtual Disaster Recovery platform enables rapid availability and recovery by virtualizing production servers and negating the need for duplicated hardware or unreliable – and often inaccessible - tape backup systems.  

“InSite One together with Venyu will deliver to the healthcare market necessary and demonstrated data protection and data delivery with the InDex vendor-neutral enterprise archive that ensures on-demand access to archived studies from any authorized application,” comments Jim Champagne, InSite One’s President and CEO. “The blending of our companies technologies offers a uniquely qualified and cost-effective toolset that protects digital healthcare data from imaging to the elements of electronic medical records.” 

InSite One services have become the de facto standard for the diagnostic imaging industry, in use at hundreds of hospitals, radiology departments, imaging centers, and physician group practices around the country. Clients vary considerably in size and complexity, and include Good Samaritan (CA), Washington Hospital Center (Washington, D.C.), Hartford Hospital (CT), InSight Health (CA), and Arizona Breastnet Both Venyu and InSite One will be exhibiting at HIMSS10 March 1-4 in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit Venyu at Booth #3445 and InSite One at Booth #7555 and in the Interoperability Showcase #233.
 

About InSite One® and InDex® Enterprise ArchiveFor more than a decade, InSite One, Inc. has distinguished itself as the market leader in storage content management services, medical data archiving and disaster protection. InSite One’s InDex Enterprise Archive and family of related storage services provide a comprehensive and flexible platform for enterprise management and sharing of patient information across clinical applications and entire healthcare communities. Through strict adherence to IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) standards (DICOM, HL7, XDS (cross-enterprise document sharing) and XDS-I (cross-enterprise document sharing for imaging), InDex services ensure the rapid retrieval of clinical information by patient and provides a platform for participation in Health Information Exchanges (HIE). 

By design, the InDex Enterprise Archive retains and protects all data files in a tamper-proof HIPAA-compliant environment. InSite One managed solutions deliver scalability, continuous IT support and state-of-the-art hardware and software upgrades that keep pace with evolving technologies. Beginning in 2010 with over 2.9 billion objects in its InDex Enterprise Archive, InSite One is the single-source for medical data storage, management and consolidation supporting ‘meaningful use’ in today’s increasingly important integrated patient record. InSite One is headquartered in Wallingford, CT. www.insiteone.com, 800-441-0091.

Venyu Remote Online Backup and Virtualized Disaster Recovery Solution Receives High Marks in Independent ESG Lab Review

Venyu combines its AmeriVault® backup service with standby virtual servers, reducing the time, complexity and risk associated with protecting and recovering rapidly growing volumes of data

Baton Rouge, LA – February 1, 2010 – Venyu, a leader in commercial-grade, customizable solutions for data protection, availability and recovery, today announced that its AmeriVault® remote online backup and virtualized disaster recovery (VDR) solution received high marks in an independent lab review from IT analyst and business strategy firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The scope of the review included operation of Venyu’s remote backup service running on ESG’s own production servers and the recovery of over half a Terabyte of data to virtual servers at a Venyu datacenter located 1,500 miles away. Five servers, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and SQLServer were evaluated for backup efficiency and recovery times.

According to ESG’s latest research, 30 percent of midmarket organizations identified improving backup and recovery as a top IT priority over the next 12-18 months. As storage capacity grows at a rate of more than 20 percent annually and the business impact of downtime intensifies, IT managers are looking for ways to reduce the risk and cost associated with protecting vital company information while also minimizing the amount of time needed to maintain backup solutions.

While using a top-rated on-premises solution, ESG was also seeking to improve backup efficiency and maintain a remote offsite copy that they could quickly recover from in the event of an outage or disaster. ESG’s Director of IT, Jeffrey D’Entremont, often had to set aside strategic projects due to the hassle associated with traditional backup methods.  Upon experiencing the Venyu backup, technical support, and remote recovery service, he summarized the test by saying, “I sleep better at night knowing that in the event of a disaster, Venyu’s got my back-up.  It was very easy to test our DR plan by virtually recovering our infrastructure at Venyu.  I’m confident that the experts at Venyu can get us back in business after a disaster.”

Venyu’s AmeriVault backup service gives mid-size companies an easy way to configure remote backups that run automatically using a WAN efficient, secure, and tape-free procedure. In the event of an outage or disaster, Venyu’s VDR service can manage the entire data recovery process using an out of region datacenter that leverages virtual server technology.

“Venyu made it easy to get started with remote backup and recovery services. The AmeriVault VDR service got us up and running in a virtual environment within hours of a simulated disaster and our IT Director expressed his total confidence in our ability to recover from any loss, small or large,” said Brian Garrett, Vice President, ESG Lab. “Any medium-sized business worried about the complexity and risk associated with data backups should consider Venyu’s online backup and virtual recovery services.”

“Businesses today have a lot to consider when it comes to protecting and storing their data, but the bigger question is whether it will be available when they need it,” said Venyu CEO Scott Thompson. “The issue of availability is critical when you consider the revenue, productivity and brand reputation lost for every minute of downtime. The AmeriVault remote online backup and VDR solution gives companies daily, hassle-free offsite storage and the confidence that their data is available when they need it.” 

To view the full ESG Lab review, please visit: www.venyu.com/esg.

Green Bay Packers Strengthen Defense with Venyu’s AmeriVault Backup

Baton Rouge, LA – October 13, 2009 – Venyu, a leader in commercial-grade, customizable solutions for data protection, availability and recovery, today announced a new partnership with the Green Bay Packers to deliver its cost-effective and reliable AmeriVault online data backup and recovery solution. The Packers join a long line of professional sports teams partnering with Venyu to outsource and streamline their offsite data backup and recovery strategies.

The storied NFL franchise relies on Venyu to provide remote backup for their production servers including SharePoint and SQL. The team – which was recently named the number one sports brand by the Turnkey Sports Brand Index – chose to modernize their data backup and recovery routines following encouragement by the NFL to consider repercussions of natural disasters and the years of success other franchises have had leveraging the internet for these services.

“We needed a provider that could backup selected data and store it remotely, while also allowing us immediate access to our files in the event of an emergency,” said Wayne Wichlacz, Director of Information Technology for the Green Bay Packers. “Venyu’s services run as an extension of our IT department, allowing us to focus on our core operations with the confidence that our data is safe.”

Until recently, small to medium enterprises like the Green Bay Packers franchise, were underserved with viable solutions to automate offsite storage to multiple geographies while providing fast recovery. The advent of affordable storage, fast internet speeds, and server virtualization gives organizations new ways to ensure recovery in the event of an outage or disaster.

“Just as SMEs can affordably and easily remotely access their corporate networks via the internet, these same advances have found their way into backup and disaster recovery technologies,” said Jerome Wendt, President of analyst firm DCIG, Inc. “These online advances coupled with new server and storage virtualization technologies alter what SMEs can expect to accomplish, and how quickly they can expect to deliver backup and DR for their applications.”

About Venyu
Venyu is a premier provider of data protection, recovery, and availability services tailored to support the recovery objectives and service levels companies require to stay competitive. Venyu’s progressive portfolio includes online data backup, physical and virtualized recovery solutions, managed hosting, SaaS, and co-location services. Venyu, headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, with offices in Waltham, MA, is backed by geographically-diverse, Tier IV datacenters, highly-qualified technicians, and iron-clad security controls.
For more information about Venyu, please visit www.venyu.com. 

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