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Every year technology trends continue to impact our decisions concerning the emerging solutions and technologies that we will explore. But the more health organizations that officially start their journeys toward electronic health information, the more their storage needs are significantly, immediately increased. Data associated with digital imaging, structure documents, unstructured documents, lab results, and several other data sets have required many to continuously reexamine their storage strategy and expand their capacity.
In recent months, a natural disaster in Asia caused significant downtime for some of the country’s leading storage and drive manufacturers, sending storage costs up. While this subtle change has not decreased the demand, many are beginning to plan for alternatives and potentials for future models that will provide a more cost effective way to store information.
Cloud-based storage is seen as the next destination for home and enterprise users when it comes to storing their data without the need of physical drives or servers locally. Similar to what DropBox, Dell, iCloud and now the new Google cloud-based storage platform, many have recognized the clear advantages to this new data destination.
Digital Health Journal 