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University of Pittsburgh medical center (UPMC) has end users like hospitals, network of other care sites and national and international commercial ventures. In the given case, UPMC provides separate server for each new application and all its servers and other computers have different operating systems along with different versions of UNIX and Windows. At the same time it has to manage different vendors to manage technologies.
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