Actifio’s Virtualization Eliminates IT Infrastructure Copy Data.

Copy data stores duplicate copies of electronic health data on servers, taking up valuable space. Actifio uses virtualization to eliminate redundant data. Copy data is redundant copies of data stored on healthcare servers. Data is copied because unstructured analytics, migration, and backup solutions are copying and archiving data independently. This uncoordinated process results in multiple copies of the same data taking up valuable storage space. Healthcare organizations cannot afford to fill up their servers with useless data, especially given the amount of new data generated daily and costs of data storage technologies. Many backup and disaster recovery solutions include deduplication, but solutions that don’t, duplicate recently updated data, and fail to delete the previous version. For example, if a medical professional alters a patient’s record, the backup solution copies the updated document for storage. If deduplication does not take place, there are two copies of that patient’s record in the data warehouse, one current and one outdated.