Sony's AIT3 and AIT5 tape libraries can be integrated into the Candelis ImageGrid™ PACS Appliance. The ImageGrid™ ILM Software allows any studies archived on an ImageGrid™ to be easily and seamlessly migrated to tape, while being actively managed in the ImageGrid's embedded database. This integration provides healthcare imaging centers with a comprehensive Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) system. Having a Sony Advance Intelligence Tape™ (AIT) library bundled with the ImageGrid provides imaging centers with full featured ILM solutions that are unavailable in other PACS systems. ILM software allows users to migrate dated images and data to a tape library for long-term archiving and recover disk storage capacity using the software's storage retention feature.

ILM storage with the ImageGrid™ provides an additional advantage to the cost effective, scalable and always-online access to studies that ImageGrid PACS appliances already provide customers with. The optional AIT tape library is designed to address the specific needs of medical imaging centers:

• Ability to back-up of patient studies as part of efforts for compliance with HIPAA
• Implementation of an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy whereby older or "aged" studies are migrated to tape for long term archiving. In these cases, ImageGrid's Storage Retention feature can be used to delete permanently migrated studies from the RAID 5 archive to accommodate new studies.

In addition, ImageGrid™ ILM Software enables customers to take advantage of Sony AIT's unique features, such as Remote Memory-In-Cassette (R-MIC) and an embedded radio frequency transponder, to optimize tape access and data retrieval, provide a safeguard for data, and reduce administrative overhead related to tape handling.

The ImageGrid™ ILM Software is part of an effective ILM storage plan and provides for the efficient management of patient data throughout its entire lifespan.