Some CIOs and data center managers have found themselves having to wring performance out of monstrously deficient facilities. Ultimately, these three wrestled with their infrastructures, made major changes and won the day.

Pomona Valley Medical Center CIO Kent Hoyos says he became embroiled in a too-literal version of "Dante's Inferno" when he tried to consolidate data center operations for the 436-bed acute-care hospital, located in Pomona, Calif., near Los Angeles. Escalating heat problems threatened ongoing operations and future technology deployments as temperatures inside the data center began to spike to as much as 102 degrees..............


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