Question

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) relies on information systems to operate 19 hospitals, a network of other care sites, and international and commercial ventures. Demand for additional servers and storage technology was growing by 20 percent each year. UPMC was setting up a separate server for every application, and its servers and other computers were running a number of different operating systems, including several versions of Unix and Windows. UPMC had to manage technologies from many different vendors, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM. Assess the impact of this situation on business performance. What factors and management decisions must be considered when developing a solution to this problem?

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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) relies information systems to operate 19 hospitals, a network of other care sites, and international and commercial ventures.They demand additional servers and storage technology by 20 percent each year. They were setting up a separate server for every application. Also, they had to manage technologies from many different vendors, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM.  

• The impact of this situation on business performance are -

UPMC should rent technical and competent hands.

UPMC must have regular maintenance of the servers.

They should invest additional each year to take care of increasing storage and space.

They should look into capability designing and scalability.

• The factors and management decisions that must be considered when developing an answer to this problem are as follows-

1. UPMC must have required manpower for the maintenance of their application software and the servers.
2. Although they are running on an online system, they should maintain tight security and privacy.
3. Management must develop a proper strategy and a good relationship with vendors to track the best quality of products.
4. By reduceing prices and simplify of its IT infrastructure, UPMC may visit one seller and choose it as its primary server and storage technology supplier to reduce UPMC’s IT infrastructure spending.  
5. The management must consider their line of authority for networking.

---overall, using own servers for a company can help to diversify the working system on an organization. And also can help to have powerful computing for any work with own ownership of super and mainframe computers.