PACS archive with iTernity: Scalable. Cost-efficient. Future-proof.
- Scalability: Maximum flexibility up to the PB range.
- Compliance: GDPR-compliant, auditable, and legally compliant.
- Security: Protection against data loss, tampering, and ransomware.
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Protect healthcare data long term
An efficient, ransomware-protected, and compliance-ready PACS archive (PACS = Picture Archiving and Communication System) in your own data center: iTernity has the ideal solution for hospitals, clinics, radiology departments, pathology departments, and all areas of diagnostic imaging that want to operate their PACS archive securely, compliantly, and cost-effectively over the long term.
Why a modern PACS archive is indispensable today
Medical imaging generates ever larger volumes of data year after year, and the trend is rising. Traditional storage solutions and legacy PACS environments are increasingly unable to cope. A high-performance PACS archive is now essential to store imaging data securely, comply with legal requirements, and at the same time reduce costs and IT effort.
A modern PACS archive should do more than just store data, because it must:
- ensure long-term availability over decades,
- provide protection against tampering and ransomware,
- integrate easily into existing IT structures, and
- scale flexibly as data volumes grow.
This is exactly where the iTernity solutions come in.
The PACS archive: regulations and retention periods
Hospitals and clinics are subject to strict regulatory requirements. This also applies to the archive, as imaging data is legally part of the patient record.
A specialized archive must technically enforce these requirements, not merely safeguard them organizationally.
iTernity meets these requirements out of the box and makes compliance an integral part of the PACS archive.
Key requirements for a PACS archive
- At least 10 years of retention for medical imaging data
- Up to 30 years for radiological and radiotherapy data
- GDPR-compliant storage of sensitive health data
- KRITIS, IT-SiG 2.0, and NIS2 requirements
- Immutability of the data
- Complete logging and auditability
A central PACS archive with iTernity
A PACS archive is the central instance for the long-term, audit-proof storage of medical imaging data. While the PACS system is primarily responsible for operational access and short-term processing, the archive ensures that the data remains unchanged, complete, and available over many years.
As a specialized archive for PACS systems, iTernity ensures that:
- imaging data is permanently ingested from the PACS system,
- cold data is offloaded from the primary PACS,
- the performance load on the PACS system is reduced, and
- compliance and data security are technically enforced.
This makes iTernity the backbone of long-term PACS data archiving.
Are you ready for your future-proof central PACS archive?
Long-term, compliance-ready protection for your medical imaging data: with iTernity, you are on the safe side.
Challenges in PACS archiving – and how iTernity supports you
Exploding data growth: a PACS archive grows by several terabytes each year – and the trend is rising.
- Software-defined scale-out PACS archive
- Unlimited expansion during ongoing operations
- No redesign, no migration
Ransomware & cyberattacks: a compromised PACS archive massively jeopardizes hospital operations.
- WORM and S3 Object Lock
- No administrative access on the customer side
- Encrypted data storage
Data integrity over decades: data loss or corruption is unacceptable in a PACS archive.
- Automatic integrity checks
- Self-healing for damaged data
- Redundant storage in the archive
Complex IT landscapes: a PACS archive must integrate seamlessly into the existing IT landscape.
- Open interfaces (SMB, NFS, S3)
- Validation with all leading healthcare applications
- Consolidation of archive, backup, and research data
Limited IT resources: a PACS archive should not place an additional burden on the IT department.
- Relieve hospital IT with a managed storage concept
- Fast installation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of the system, including updates, patches, and feature releases by iTernity
- More time for core topics by outsourcing basic routine tasks
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Why iTernity solutions are ideally suited as a PACS archive
Our decades of experience in healthcare flows directly into our solutions – yet they can be used across industries wherever the highest archiving requirements apply.
With iCAS Classic and/or iCAS FS, you get a future-proof PACS system archive that grows with your requirements.
Unlike traditional storage solutions, iTernity combines the following advantages:
- audit-proof archiving,
- maximum data security,
- unlimited scalability,
- low TCO, and
- hardware independence.
A strong ecosystem for future-proof solutions
Our solutions are compatible with PACS, DMS, ECM, and ERP applications from all leading vendors. iTernity tests every integration to ensure stability, security, and seamless integration into existing infrastructures.
Customer Success Story: University Hospital Dresden
“Future data growth is very difficult for us to estimate, especially with regard to research data, genomic data, AI, and projects such as the digitization of pathology. In addition, storage expansions always represent significant investments. However, we are convinced that with the cost-efficient and scalable iCAS FS platform, we have chosen a future-proof solution.”
Gordon Schultz, Head of the Basic Infrastructure Department
Conclusion: A PACS archive for long-term security, compliance, and growth
A high-performance PACS archive is now indispensable for compliance, data security, and cost-effectiveness in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
With iTernity, you get a PACS archive that
- technically safeguards legal requirements,
- relieves your PACS system,
- reduces IT effort,
- saves costs in the long term, and
- grows with your data.
Why do healthcare facilities choose PACS archiving with iTernity?
Over 50% of German university hospitals already rely on iTernity’s expertise, because we have specialized for more than 20 years in secure, long-term, audit-proof data retention. Our solutions are software-defined, vendor-neutral, and flexibly scalable.
More than 20 years of expertise in secure and auditable data archiving.
German software and operations in line with European data protection requirements.
Predictable cost structures instead of unforeseeable operating expenses.
Relieve the IT department without losing control.
Scalability without operational interruption
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