There’s a lot of talk these days about using technology to drive better, cheaper health care. But for rural hospitals in a down economy, making the leap requires IT leaders to find new ways of doing more with less—while making sure that critical systems are always available.

Mason General Hospital needed a reliable, scalable platform for virtualization and data mining, as well as specialized medical applications. The hospital wanted to reduce its total cost of ownership for IT while improving efficiency and meeting compliance requirements.