A new approach to affordable and reliable cardiology PACS architecture using open-source technology

In the past ten years we followed the expansion of cardiology imaging technology and how it relates to integration, tele-consulting and standards. The new frontier of Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) is expanding and require more technology and resources. Cardiology imaging is evolving and needs even more resources than before. The present work proposes a new approach to manage a large cardiology PACS installation using new open-source facilities on affordable hardware creating a reliable system. For this kind of application we moved our core system from Linux platform to the new OpenSolaris unix and to novelty Functions like Solaris Containers, ZFS file-system and Fair Share Scheduler, in order to achieve server consolidation, ease of use and reliability.