General and specialty
specific Image Storage Solution providers use various storage
technologies such as RAIDS, magnetic systems, WORM-CDROM, RW-CDROM,
Magneto-optical systems, RW-DVD, DATs, or other memory storage
devices. These hardware devices are used by different database
systems (such as relational, object
oriented, multi-dimensional, and groupware
programs) for the centralized storage and retrieval of multimedia
data types. However, a distributed architecture for data storage
and retrieval requires middleware components which utilize DICOM,
Enterprise Java Beans, CORBA, and/or XML for retrieval and storage
of objects.