Challenges
The pharmaceutical manufacturing company focusing on post-patent, branded medicines faced several challenges in managing its IT infrastructure and planning a migration to the cloud. Operating 24 manufacturing facilities across 15 sites, and their environment contained over 400 cloud, virtual and physical instances.
The assessment and migration was driven by the need for increased IT agility, cost optimization, and improved flexibility.
Solution
To address these challenges CloudSphere ran a discovery CloudSphere’s platform and deployed across all data centers to run a discovery and product an optimized total cost of ownership in AWS and business applications services paths and analysis reporting in one week.
Results
- Discovered of over 1566 COTS and 6 global propriety applications running on and their applications services paths via CloudSphere Knowledge Graph.
- Revealed Application and OS end-of-life analysis showing 106 operating systems and 769 applications running on VMWare that were no longer supported.
- Provided analysis of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and VMware workloads for migration planning.
- Gave prescriptive guidance for migration move groups with application complexity scoring.
- Results included 55% annual cost reduction TCO by opting for a 3-year reserved instance and right-sizing their virtual machines in AWS.
- Outcomes included a 25% reduction Microsoft SQL cores for licensing optimization.
- CloudSphere Knowledge Graphing of applications for modernization for SAP HEC environment modernization for security, reliability, and cost transparency while simplifying validation processes required by the pharmaceutical industry.
By leveraging CloudSphere’s platform, this global pharmaceutical manufacturing company successfully addressed its complex IT challenges by not only accelerating the migration planning with their consulting partner with CloudSphere’s Knowledge Graph but also uncovered significant cost-saving opportunities and reduced risk to drive a successful cloud migration with CloudSphere and AWS.
CloudSphere On AWS
CloudSphere is an IT Visibility technology company that provides customers with a discovery, assessment, migration and modernization recommendations for on-premises, multicloud and hybrid IT environments.
CloudSphere takes a unique application-centric view of IT environments by providing a Knowledge Graph with a wholistic, continuous monitoring of infrastructure, applications and communications to provide prescriptive recommendations for total cost of ownership for migration and offers managed services recommendations for modernization.
Customers can discover their on-premises and multi-cloud environments to get an immediate TCO for migration, Microsoft SQL optimization, AWS PaaS and Graviton recommendations, as well as manage complex business application services mapping to make data-driven decisions for migration, hybrid IT management and modernization.
