Is UPMC’s $402M Deal With IBM Paying Off?

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

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