The leading private medical clinic organization in Ghana is UPSAIT400 Group. It uses information technology to run hundreds of specialized institutes in addition to 15 hospitals. The need for more servers and storage technology is increasing by 25% annually. Every application was being set up on a separate server by UPSAIT400, and a variety of UNIX and Windows operating systems were being used on the servers and other computers. Many various suppliers' technologies are required to be managed by UPSAIT400, including those from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM. As an astute system administrator, what choices need to be taken into account while creating a solution to this issue?

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The leading private medical clinic organization in Ghana is UPSAIT400 Group. It uses information technology to run hundreds of specialized institutes in addition to 15 hospitals. The need for more servers and storage technology is increasing by 25% annually. Every application was being set up on a separate server by UPSAIT400, and a variety of UNIX and Windows operating systems were being used on the servers and other computers. Many various suppliers' technologies are required to be managed by UPSAIT400, including those from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM. As an astute system administrator, what choices need to be taken into account while creating a solution to this issue? 
 
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