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New York-based Genesix is a health care specialist VAR, with an expertisein design and installation of data intensive Picture Archiving andCommunications Systems (PACS). Genesix President and CEO Al Vickers said thatthe Hifn Swarm appliances are a perfect storage solution for a PACSenvironment, with a feature set that addresses health care IT issues and adesign simplicity that fits well with the staffing challenges facing manyhealth care operations.
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"Our customers have to deal not only with the huge capacity growth ofmedical imaging but with HIPAA compliance requirements and managing multiplelocations without the staff to go with it. Hifn products are easy to installand maintain, adding tremendous value to the product," said Vickers. "Hifnalso solves the HIPAA compliance challenge with built-in data encryption inhardware versus software, making it simple, automatic and difficult forhackers to break."
"Health care and medical imaging are key market opportunities that canleverage the versatility of the iSCSI platform and the Genesix-Hifnpartnership brings a huge value proposition to health care customersstruggling with growing data loads, HIPAA challenges and managing remotesites," said John Matze, Vice President Business Development at Hifn. "Healthcare customers have hit the jackpot with this relationship, given theexperience and PACS expertise of Genesix and Hifn's features of the SwarmiSCSI appliances that fit seamlessly within the health care market, all backedby our commitment to supporting and driving the success of our VAR partners."
Hifn's supports Genesix and all of its Channel 100 Partner Program memberswith a broad package of tools and resources to ensure their success in sellingSwarm-based iSCSI storage solutions. Channel 100 partner benefits includetraining webinars, lead generation, product spiffs, joint customer visits withHifn storage experts, discounted demo units, public relations andtelemarketing support, and event and marketing program support based on salesvolume. Hifn and Genesix will launch the new reseller partnership with a"Lunch and Learn" event in New York City on Tuesday, June 17 where attendeeswill learn about the server consolidation, storage virtualization and dataencryption capabilities enabled with the Swarm iSCSI appliances from Hifn andhow those translate into quantifiable business benefits. They will also havethe opportunity to consult with Genesix and Hifn storage experts about theirown storage requirements and how iSCSI can address those needs.
About Swarm IP SAN Appliances from Hifn
The Swarm is a series of IP SAN appliances that delivers the benefits ofstorage networking to small and mid-sized business that want encryption,storage consolidation, centralized management, automatic backup, highavailability and seamless integration with the Microsoft operatingenvironment. The Hifn Swarm Series of iSCSI storage appliances provides anideal IP SAN storage alternative to complex and costly Fibre Channel productswith up to 9.75 terabytes of RAID-6 protected storage along with a full suiteof storage services, including encryption, replication, point-in-time copybackup used for Windows Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS)-consistent snapshotsand multipath I/O for high availability active-active configurations. Swarm IPSAN solutions are available now starting at $8,995. For more informationplease visit: http://www.hifn.com/appliance.
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