It helps that in the face of the Y2K computer scare ahead of the year 2000, the hospital system replaced all its old legacy systems and now runs a well-integrated infrastructure.

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The minister then announced a two-stage study of the teacher training infrastructure, to consider the affordability of the current system and the options for a more shared and integrated system.

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"The new IBM zEnterprise System represents a potentially revolutionary change to the platform and the next phase in the evolution of highly efficient, scalable processing opening up the possibility of hosting entire workloads on a single highly integrated system, " said Martin Kennedy, Managing Director, Citi's Enterprise System Infrastructure.

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