DDI Health managing director, Matthew Bardsley, said the company has realized huge cost savings, partly because the company can use its choice of any Intel or AMD server hardware platform. "Rather than going with a SAN vendor that required us to use proprietary hardware, we found that with this product we were able to get top of the line SAN supporting thin provisioning and yet spend only a tenth of what a traditional SAN would have cost," he said. "The combination of SANmelody with standard off the shelf hardware has also provided increased flexibility in the way we run our business.

"It has meant fewer headaches for IT staff and less business interruption issues for our company as a whole." DDI Health produces the Filmless Image Technology (FIT) software for Radiology as well as FIT PACS viewing software which is incorporated into the GP desktop via the clinical system Medical Director that is used by over 85 per cent of computerized General Practitioners in Australia.