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For the past few years, health care organizations have struggled mightily to make health care more affordable and efficient by making records more accessible to nurses, doctors and patients; enabling real-time, remote diagnoses; and improving billing systems. Traditionally, that has meant quickly constructing islands of ad-hoc wired and wireless voice, video and data networks on-site and at remote locations.

As a first step to solving this problem, CxOs and their teams have consolidated infrastructure and staffing into data centers, serving up applications, storage and expertise to remote and branch sites from centralized resource pools. However, without centralized management to automate deployment, configuration and oversight of data center and remote operations, consolidation inevitably falls short of its promise.