Heartlab spinoff unveils cardiac data storage system

A spinoff of Ashaway-based Heartlab Inc. last week unveiled a new energy-efficient data storage system for cardiac diagnostic data that it says dramatically reduces the space, power, time and money required to store data, all at roughly 50 percent of its competitors’ price.
The firm, greenBytes, is a developer of next-generation data storage solutions founded by digital cardiology pioneers from Heartlab. The new product is called Cypress, and it’s an ultra high-efficiency network attached storage appliance designed for high-volume facilities.
The operating system works with Sun Microsystems’ Sun Fire X4540 storage server to create the densest, highest-performing storage platform for medical records storage, the company said in a news release. It can be used for backups, disaster recovery, document management and other applications and can save “thousands of dollars” in electricity, the firm said.
“Our health care customers [at Heartlab] were dealing with an explosion of digital information from their advanced imaging systems,” said Robert Petrocelli, chief technical officer and co-founder of greenBytes and Heartlab. “Understanding our customers’ problems has always been essential in providing solutions as the health care industry moved from analog to digital. Cypress meets the uniquely demanding storage needs of the health care industry – where it is not uncommon to store 10 to 40 terabytes per year, with a seven-year retention requirement.”
“We are pleased to work with greenBytes to help health care institutions manage data more economically, effectively and ecologically than ever before,” said Joe Hartley, Heartlab’s vice president for global government, education and health care. “Our focus on innovation has allowed us to exponentially increase our systems’ storage capacity while lowering the cost. This is an important step in advancing the health care industry through improved management of patient data.”
For more information about greenBytes, go to www.green-bytes.com.