General Accident Insurance AUVA
60% cost reduction through a new archive storage system
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GDPR-compliant archiving
Customers worldwide
ISV applications
Years of experience
At General Accident Insurance AUVA, data volumes from imaging procedures are growing rapidly. This data must be stored with high availability and in accordance with strict requirements and security standards. As the existing archive storage system was being phased out, AUVA was looking for a more flexible and efficient solution with a clear focus on ransomware protection.
Success at a glance
60% savings in data storage and management costs
No effort required from AUVA with the storage platform
Managing data growth with our scale-out solution iCAS FS
Independence from proprietary APIs and hardware systems
Christian Zellermayer
Deputy Head of Department, Information and Communication Technology, AUVA
“By using iCAS FS, we were able to reduce our storage costs by 60%. The cost benefits are primarily driven by iTernity’s software-based architecture and managed services approach.”
Everyone in Austria knows AUVA
The organization at a glance
As the statutory accident insurance provider, AUVA serves around 4.6 million insured persons. Its services include prevention, accident treatment, rehabilitation, and compensation for workplace accidents. This means AUVA is not a traditional insurance company – under the guiding principle “everything from a single source,” it provides the best possible care for its insured persons and always takes a holistic view of them.
- Statutory accident insurance
- Services include prevention, accident treatment, rehabilitation, and compensation for workplace accidents
- Approx. 4.6 million insured persons and 5,700 employees
The archive storage system’s end of life as an opportunity
For AUVA’s IT, handling the data is a sensitive process because it involves critical health information. This data must be especially protected, must not be altered or manipulated, and must be retained in accordance with strict requirements. Due to acute care, fast access to archived data is also essential, and high availability is critical for patient care. Compounding this is the fact that data volumes are growing rapidly and are a lucrative target for ransomware attacks.
Data growth is closely linked to costs, workforce planning, and IT security. More data requires more storage capacity and new systems. These must be managed, updated, and secured. This, in turn, requires IT specialists, time, and money. More systems and resources often mean greater complexity and additional attack vectors for cyberattacks.
At AUVA, another factor added to these challenges: dependence on the existing proprietary archiving solution, also known as “vendor lock-in.” Proprietary systems stand in contrast to open-source solutions and tie companies to specific interfaces and hardware. For AUVA, this made it difficult to connect additional business applications, caused high costs, and severely limited flexibility.
The decisive factor in choosing our iCAS FS storage solution was the overall solution.
Requirements for the storage solution
Christian Zellermayer
Deputy Head of Department, Information and Communication Technology, AUVA
“Today, it is extremely difficult to plan IT infrastructures and storage requirements. At AUVA, we currently see a doubling of data every three years in the area of backup and archiving—and this situation will continue to intensify in the future.”
Added value and next steps
The decisive factor in choosing the iCAS FS storage platform was the overall solution:
- Meeting legal requirements: With iCAS FS, AUVA meets all requirements for storing sensitive health data.
- Scale-out: As a scale-out cluster, iCAS FS counteracts data growth that is difficult to predict.
- High availability: iCAS FS ensures high availability thanks to transparent read/write failover and an active-active cluster.
- Time and staffing effort: Whether implementation, monitoring, troubleshooting, configuration changes, or administration. The system is operated by iTernity as a managed service and runs smoothly in the background for AUVA.
- Flexibility: The openness of the storage system and the fact that iCAS is software-defined enable maximum flexibility.
- Security: iCAS FS is based on a hardened Linux system and does not provide administrator access on AUVA’s side.
- Support: Fast response times, in-depth expertise, and dedicated contacts
One trend is central to AUVA’s future direction: accident treatment and rehabilitation are to be more closely integrated and offered under the umbrella of a single clinic. Storage infrastructure and the integration of PACS and radiology systems also play an important role in this.
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