Now more than ever, pharmaceutical companies need to collaborate efficiently across research and development centers, manufacturing facilities, and regulatory management centers. Critical research and manufacturing processes generate terabytes of unstructured data that needs to be shared quickly — and protected securely.
For IT, this requirement puts a tangible stress on traditionally siloed storage hardware and network bandwidth resources. Supporting unstructured data sharing forces IT to add storage capacity at an unpredictable rate, then bolt on expensive networking capabilities. Yet failing to keep up can impact both business and research progress. Long delays waiting for research files and manufacturing data to transfer over the WAN are not acceptable in today’s competitive environment
