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Hospital Baptizes SAN on Optical: Page 4 of 5

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Source: Baptist Health

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Source: Baptist Health

What's next? The hospital group wants to run completely disparate fiber connections among its sites so there isn't a single point of failure -- "So one backhoe doesn't kill us," explains Billingsley.

The organization is also gearing up to migrate its 9 Data General Unix (DG-UX) servers (out of its 150 servers total) to IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) AIX servers. It's doing this reluctantly, and only because EMC -- which bought Data General in 1999 -- has phased out development and support of the server technologies.

"DG-UX is going by the wayside, which is a shame," says Billingsley. "The way Data General Unix addresses storage and storage devices is far advanced compared with the other Unix vendors. Now that functionality is going away."