RESEARCH THERAPY
ACCELERATING CLOUD ADOPTION TO ENHANCE HEALTHCARE
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Founded more than 100 years ago to provide healthcare for the poor and vulnerable, Providence continues its mission today through 120,000 caregivers at 52 hospitals and over 1,000 clinics.
Providence’ s growth and success is based on an openness to new technology and adopting best practices as they evolve. When the company recently began a migration to cloud infrastructure for greater flexibility and cost efficiency, it applied Turbonomic Application Resource Management software to maintain the resilience of critical applications, including those directly involved in providing medical care to patients.
Beginning the migration to cloud
When Rick Stover joined Providence in late 2019 as Senior Vice President( SVP) of IS
Infrastructure and Chief Technology Officer( CTO), he was faced with an enormous budget problem that seemed to grow by the day.
The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the need to reduce waste and maintain cost efficiency, even as healthcare facilities around the world were faced with the prospect of overwhelming demand for acute care.
Just as the pandemic was beginning, Bryan de Boer joined the Providence team as Executive Director, responsible for the company’ s Microsoft Azure migration.
This migration was in the early stages – and a massive undertaking. In parallel, there were other initiatives in progress to remediate technical debt and rationalise the company’ s application portfolio. �
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