Rose Gilligan had an urgent goal when she joined the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) in 2019: to get “out of the data center business.”
The organization’s on-premises data center was sprawling and inefficient, with hardware from multiple vendors. A number of servers had aged out of support, and some systems were redundant. For instance, the association had rolled out a new storage area network but had never retired its old one. Perhaps most telling, the organization had more servers (150, including both physical and virtual) than employees (130).
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