2008
2008 Winner Profile
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Project Description: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) partnered with IBM to deploy a $352 million on-demand computing infrastructure. Taking advantage of technologies such as virtualization and autonomic computing, the on-demand partnership involved reengineering UPMCs technology infrastructure. During the transformation, the tools and processes have been refined, validated and packaged as solutions, marketed by IBM and UPMC. The initiative has saved $30 million over a three-year period.
- Project type: Storage, Virtualization
- Business Functions: Accounting & Finance, IT operations
- Business Goal: Financial
- CIO: $model.cio100.cioFirstName Drawbaugh, SVP & CIO
- CEO: Jeffrey Romoff, President & CEO
- Headquarters: Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Industry: Health Care
- Revenue (2007): $6.8 billion
- Website: www.upmc.edu
