HOSPITAL GOES GREEN/VIRTUAL WITH VMWARE AND DATACORE.

The article reports on the initiative of Saint Marien Amberg Hospital in Germany to implement storage area networks melody (SANmelody). It states that SANmelody is a reliable storage foundation that supports Amberg Hospital information systems and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) project running on a VMware environment. According to Dr. Dietmar Braeuer, head of information technology (IT) at Saint Marien Amberg Hospital, they have placed the foundation for an IT environment of the future by using a combination of DataCore storage and VMware server virtualization.