The HP Medical Archive solution (MAS) is a specialized content archiving platform to help global healthcare providers of all sizes address exploding medical image retention requirements. With HP MAS, healthcare providers can strengthen their focus on improving patient care and adhering to strict regulatory governance by ensuring fast-growing medical image data are securely preserved and highly available. The grid architecture satisfies the scalability and performance requirements of healthcare providers at a price point any customer can afford. HP MAS is designed to handle medical fixed content, ranging from large medical images and movies to smaller electronic patient documents. MAS is an expandable appliance composed of integrated HP disk storage, servers, and policy management software to provide long-term retention of medical data, and it supports the leading medical imaging applications. What differentiates HP MAS is its ability to improve care delivery and facilitate regulatory governance by providing high availability for secure storage of images while reducing the cost and management of medical fixed content by consolidating historical data from multiple sources to lower cost media.