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i3ARCHIVE, Inc. and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announce their commitment to jointly market commercial disaster recovery and business continuity services to the medical imaging industry. Under this new agreement, i3ARCHIVE and IBM will focus on building awareness around the significant benefits that i3ARCHIVE's On-Demand, enterprise scale, medical imaging data management services can provide to healthcare institutions with limited financial resources.

"Given the critical nature of disaster recovery in healthcare, i3ARCHIVE has chosen IBM hardware, middleware and services for our reliability and scalability," said Mike Svinte, Vice President for IBM Information Based Medicine. "Together we are providing small and medium hospitals, clinics and others the disaster recovery tools once only available to the larger institutions."

In November 2005, i3ARCHIVE announced that it had extended the capabilities of its GRID-based medical imaging architecture to service the needs of business continuity and disaster recovery for picture archive and communications systems ("PACS"). In doing so, i3 exceeded the HIPAA requirements for data recovery and provided an unprecedented ability to provide "fail-over" access to a replicated, virtual instance of an existing PACS environment that can be utilized during periods of unavailability or inaccessibility.