The MetaStore 3002 is a dual-everything redundant DICOM and EMR store with a minimum 3 Terrabytes of primary high-performance reliable on-line storage and multi-network connectivity for access from anywhere, protected by world-class security. Meta Fusion's leading fault-tolerance architecture is put to work in engineering an expandible on-line store that provides the raw materials for a 5-9 rating in availability, which is generally considered as the highest uptime rating in the real-time on-line information systems industry. Meta Fusion brings the best from this very demanding world to your healthcare facility for uninterrupted operation of your routine and life-critical business.

The MetaStore 3002 provides excellent value as the DICOM image store for your PACS image distribution and archive needs. The MetaStore can be operated as a zero-mainenance image repository, accepting studies from diverse modalities. Meta Fusion's support and rapid response is included in your ownership of this enterprise-class system, The MetaStore is designed to support multiple facilities and multitudes of user accounts, because the Meta Fusion storage architecture requires that our storage devices be capable of precision collaboration without being limited by geographic location. Thus, your MetaStore can in principle reside anywhere. We can deploy it into your location, or outside of it, or you can rely on us to deploy it in one of our facilities and manage and operate it for you. As a rule, we recommend a hybrid approach to deployment, consisting of a MetaStore deployment into your facility, and a MetaArchive deployment in one of our facilities.

The deployment of the MetaStore can be carefully tuned to take into account your network infrastructure and topology, including throughput, usage, and existing security. While Meta Fusion recommends the deployment of our imaging networks for your PACS, teleradiology and infrastructure needs, Meta Fusion offers other storage solutions that can implement best practices in enterprise resource management and limit your expenses. For example, the MetaProxy product line

provides your network with edge storage elements used for securely caching images, thus offering a way of reducing network traffic on certain network segments when many users on those segments request images from the primary MetaStore.

At the heart of the MetaStore 3002 is Meta Fusion's proprietary fault-tolerance recipe that is derived from our experience in building systems that are located in remote locations and designed to be used reliably by millions of users daily over the internet. Unlike most PACS providers, the Meta Fusion storage architecture does not consider "RAID" and fashions in the storage industry to be the magic recipes for reliable operation. Instead, Meta Fusion's storage offerings are inspired by an architecture that builds on detailed analyses and models of faults, failures and disasters, and includes accounting for non-conformant behavior under stress or in extreme conditions. By not limiting our focus and our models to hardware unreliability, and software bugs, but also including processes, business practices and human errors, a superior more relaible product results. The MetaStore family embodies these advantages.

All of the Meta Fusion storage products are designed for hostile environments, expecting attacks and attempts at unauthorized access. Just because you may be a healthcare provider that helps the needy and acts to benefit society and people does not protect you from malicious attacks on the information super-highway. Your systems have to be secure and attack-hardened, including automatic responses to certain intrusions to control the impact of the most aggressive attackers These security designs and technologies are well-suited to HIPAA, and the MetaStore family is able to provide these benefits to your business.