Overview The Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit provides 150,000 people with a wide range of public health services, including every- thing from immunization clinics to well-water analysis to restaurant inspections. Challenge As a governmental organization serving thou- sands of citizens every day, the Health Unit needs to ensure that its services—which are increasingly dependent on online applica- tions—are easily accessible at all times. From an IT perspective, this means that the Health Unit’s systems architecture needs to be simple, reliable, and easy to maintain. “We had a mixed landscape of 40 physical and virtual servers running Windows and Linux op- erating systems—so it was relatively complex to manage,” said Tom Lockhart, IT Systems Manager. “Relying on ph

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