Is UPMC's $402M Deal With IBM Paying Off?
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In 2005, a $6 billion health-care organization took a dose of on-demand computing, virtualization and ITIL and set out to transform itself, vendor-customer relationships and the national health-care system. How far has the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center come?
Story Guide:
Making a Huge Bet
Moving to On Demand
Promoting Virtual Efficiency
The UPMC-IBM Playbook
When Change Is Good
Also in This Feature:
Working Together: How UPMC and IBM are delivering technology change.
Base Technologies: Relying on an On Demand computing environment.
Who's Who: A CIO opts against gradual change.
Doing More With Less: How virtualization helps avoid costs.
Realigning Budgets: A look at infrastructure investments.
At a Glance: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Question: As virtualization shrinks the number of servers installed in enterprises, do you think software vendors will adjust their prices to reflect the new reality? Drop a note to editors@baselinemag.com
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