VIRTUALIZATION Is Just What the


Doctor Ordered More Ways to Save Time, Money, and Energy


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BY STAN GIBSON W


HILE VIRTUALIZATION technology is approaching maturity in many IT shops, it’s just coming of age in healthcare providers’ data centers. It may prove to be a golden age, however, as the push to virtualize


gains momentum on all fronts—servers, storage, backup and desktop. And so far, hospital IT execs say, there’s little not to like. “We were either going to many physical servers or to virtualization. It made


sense in terms of space and manageability to move to a much larger virtual platform,” said Alan Hite, director of IT systems at Adventist Health System in Lake Mary, Fla. Jeff Szymanski, director of data center operations for the University


of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, agreed: “Without virtualization, we would have more staff or we would have to outsource or build a new data center.”


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