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Can a disaster recovery site serve two masters? Yes, says Eric Nelson, CIO of St. Joseph Healthcare in Bangor, Maine. Through thoughtful deployment of server and storage virtualization, this multiservice hospital with more than 1,000 physicians and nursing and support staff in over 30 departments, uses its DR facility not just for failover but for day-to-day business, resulting in considerable ROI and capital savings.

Check out this article illustrating how this hospital utilized virtualization as an aid to the way it provisions and supports the IT, as well as gaining returns on investment. It’s great to see people benefiting from the technology, and at the same time, seeing what tools they’ve done to achieve this – crucially, what is considered ‘in scope’ and out of scope, SQL and Exchange for example.

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