Becker's Healthcare January 26, 2024
Data centers can be costly, requiring healthcare organizations to allocate funds toward investments in servers, routers, switches and various other infrastructure elements to sustain them, making CIOs want to get out of the business.
Renton, Wash.-based Providence decided to transition away from on-premise data centers five years ago, especially after recognizing that the operational aspect of running data centers wasn’t a key differentiator for healthcare providers and after realizing how capital-intensive and time-intensive it was.
“We’re not going to out-compete our data center competition,” B.J. Moore, CIO of the health system, told Becker’s. “We can’t compete for the data center talent. If you’re in Seattle, and you’re an amazing data center or network expert, you go work for Microsoft...
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