Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KGaA
Merz Pharma is an independent, internationally active pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. In-house research and development as well as a customised and innovative product portfolio make Merz one of the most important companies in aesthetic medicine. In addition, Merz Pharma produces drugs for diseases of the central nervous system and metabolism as well as for clinical and aesthetic dermatology.
Customer since:
2005
Industry:
Pharmaceuticals and medical technology
City:
Frankfurt
Start Riverbed project Steel Fusion Frankfurt-Singapore
Requirements
- The customer was dissatisfied with the performance at the Singapore location - application was too slow.
- Higher performance of the provided systems and data should be ensured
- Application provisioning in Singapore
- Response time optimisation for access to the data centre in Frankfurt
- Consolidation of the Frankfurt location
Service & Solutions
Solution concept: design, planning and implementation
Test provision and pilot test at the customer's site
Use of Riverbed systems for WAN optimisation
Centralisation of the storage solution for backup and restore of data and applications at the Frankfurt location
Maintenance contract and monitoring
Advantages & benefits
By using the new Riverbed systems, the response times for accessing the data centre in Frankfurt could be optimised. The use of central data centre infrastructures such as backup and restore offers an enormous advantage, as applications are redundantly available to users at both locations, thus enabling flexible working.
