AGFA Enterprise Imaging Load Balancing with Progress Kemp LoadMaster
Why Does Load Balancing Matters for AGFA Enterprise Imaging
AGFA Enterprise Imaging environments support large diagnostic image studies, image exchange services, remote clinicians and healthcare staff across multiple locations. As imaging volumes increase and healthcare organizations expand access to imaging services, infrastructure must deliver consistent performance, resilience and availability without disrupting patient care.
Reliability, security and availability for AGFA PACS
Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) provides the ability to transfer patient studies between hospitals quickly, securely, and reliably. The Kemp LoadMaster delivers an exceptional, cost effective, and easy to use solution which by employing High Availability (HA), Global Server Load Blancing (GSLB), Intelligent load balancing and intelligent server health checking can support AGFA’s always-on application experience.
Simple to Manage
Kemp LoadMaster comes with pre-defined templates for AGFA to simplify deployment and operationBetter Value
Get resilience at a fraction of the cost of equivalent solutions from F5 or Citrix without compromising on features, security or performance
World-Class Support
The Kemp Support Team have extensive experience of ensuring successful deployment and optimization of AGFA
High Availability, Security and Performance for AGFA Enterprise Imaging
Kemp LoadMaster delivers increased network performance and reliability by removing single points of failure both within a single data center or across multiple data centers.
With Kemp, the availability and performance of a VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive) is easily delivered by supporting multiple data centers and providing seamless fail-over in the event of a site outage.
LoadMaster constantly monitors the status of key components of AGFA Enterprise Imaging and can immediately detect and mitigate service outages or degradation by redirecting traffic to available and healthy services ensuring continued availability.
Why Use LoadMaster as a Load Balancer for AGFA Enterprise?
The Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster solution provides intelligent traffic management and load balancing for AGFA Enterprises. The LoadMaster load balancer helps maintain reliable user access, improve infrastructure resilience and support consistent performance across its environment.
Key benefits
- Reduce single points of failure and automatically direct users to healthy AGFA resources.
- Balance workloads across multiple application servers to support responsive viewing and image retrieval.
- Maintain access during outages, maintenance events and infrastructure failures.
- Expand imaging capacity while maintaining consistent performance.
- Support radiologists, clinicians and healthcare staff across multiple locations.
- Help protect healthcare applications through SSL/TLS offloading, authentication integration and traffic inspection.
Site Resilience and Disaster Recovery
LoadMaster Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) intelligently directs users to the healthiest available AGFA Enterprise Imaging deployment. Automated failover helps maintain access during site outages, maintenance events and unexpected disruptions, strengthening disaster recovery readiness and business continuity initiatives.
Load Balancing AGFA Enterprise Imaging with LoadMaster
AGFA’s Enterprise Imaging Exchange helps solve the operational challenges of the enterprise imaging strategy, by establishing a secure health information exchange network between collaborating health providers. Kemp LoadMaster ensures that access to AGFA is always available and therefore providing the essential connectivity completing the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) solution.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I use Progress Kemp LoadMaster with AGFA Enterprise Imaging?
The Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster® solution helps healthcare organizations improve the availability, performance and resilience of AGFA Enterprise Imaging environments by intelligently distributing application traffic across multiple servers and resources. This helps reduce downtime, improve user experiences and support uninterrupted access to critical imaging systems, without the complexity often associated with traditional ADC platforms..
How does LoadMaster improve AGFA availability?
The LoadMaster solution continuously monitors the health and responsiveness of AGFA Enterprise Imaging services. If an application server becomes unavailable or experiences performance issues, traffic is automatically redirected to healthy resources. This helps maintain consistent access to imaging applications and minimizes disruption to clinical workflows..
Does LoadMaster support disaster recovery for AGFA deployments?
Yes. LoadMaster Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) can distribute AGFA Enterprise Imaging services across multiple data centers or sites and automatically direct users to the healthiest available location. In the event of a site outage or planned maintenance, GSLB helps maintain access to critical imaging services and supports healthcare business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives.
