Kaiser Permanente Outsources Data Center Management to IBM

BM has landed a seven-year, $500 million contract with the Kaiser Permanente health care program to manage its data centers, reports The Associated Press in a story in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Big Blue will manage the health program's computing, storage and software needs for the data centers, located primarily in California and Maryland. Kaiser Permanente will still manage its business applications and its HealthConnect electronic health records system, reports InformationWeek, though IBM is expected to help make improvements to that system.

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