Case Study: American College of Radiology achieves 70% storage reduction and HIPAA-compliant performance with Panzura

American College of Radiology Streamlines Data Management and Protection

The American College of Radiology (ACR), a nonprofit professional medical society, faced rapidly growing medical imaging data (projected to grow from 100 TB to 250 TB) and strict HIPAA requirements. Their legacy EMC/Commvault model of local storage, replication and backups was becoming unsustainable—requiring roughly five times the raw storage to protect 100 TB—and ACR needed a secure, scalable way to share large image files across three East Coast offices.

ACR deployed Panzura’s Distributed Cloud File System with Datatility’s Cleversafe-powered “Hydra” object cloud to provide local-like performance, global file access, and encrypted (in transit and at rest) cloud archival. The solution consolidated storage and backups, cut raw storage needs by about 70%, delivered fast snapshot-based restores, met HIPAA/FIPS security requirements, and created a predictable, sustainable growth model.

American College Of Radiology

Matt Jordan

Senior Director of IT Operations