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Colorcon Improves End-User Experience and Performance of Applications with Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Colorcon, a company that provides a wide range of film coatings, modified release technologies, and excipients used by pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement companies, faced a challenge with its centralized applications. The company has offices in 25 countries, all linked to the main data center in Pennsylvania where business-critical applications have been centralized. The main enterprise application is Oracle e-Business Suite, but there are 80 applications in total, including legacy and regulatory applications, that are delivered to the remote sites over the network. The challenge was to ensure that these applications perform well across the globe. The company had an open-source load balancer, which was seen as a potential problem as it was non-enterprise class, had no support or in-house expertise, and didn’t provide visibility into application performance, particularly the end-user experience. Read More
About Customer	Colorcon is a company that provides a wide range of film coatings, modified release technologies, and excipients used by pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement companies in the development of cost-effective, high-quality products. The company has offices in 25 countries, all linked by a network to the company’s main data center in Pennsylvania where business-critical applications have been centralized. The main enterprise application is Oracle e-Business Suite, but there are 80 applications in all, including legacy and regulatory applications, that are delivered to the remote sites over the network. The company also supports internal and external websites. Read More
Solution	Colorcon chose the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager because it met all of the company’s requirements for load balancing functionality, support, and visibility into the end user experience. The Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager is a software-based solution that allowed for a very easy deployment. As a software solution, the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager brings all of the typical benefits of virtualization. It makes the stack pretty small and doesn’t need hardware and space in the data center. Also, backup is easy. The availability of the TrafficScript customization language, which makes it possible to create rules for managing application traffic, was another advantage of going with the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager. The Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager can create, manage, and deliver Layer 7 services. Also, when the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager detects a problem, it directs traffic away from that server much more quickly, to the point that no one notices anything amiss. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Pharmaceuticals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Colorcon, a company that provides a wide range of film coatings, modified release technologies, and excipients used by pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement companies, faced a challenge with its centralized applications. The company has offices in 25 countries, all linked to the main data center in Pennsylvania where business-critical applications have been centralized. The main enterprise application is Oracle e-Business Suite, but there are 80 applications in total, including legacy and regulatory applications, that are delivered to the remote sites over the network. The challenge was to ensure that these applications perform well across the globe. The company had an open-source load balancer, which was seen as a potential problem as it was non-enterprise class, had no support or in-house expertise, and didn’t provide visibility into application performance, particularly the end-user experience.

About Customer

Colorcon is a company that provides a wide range of film coatings, modified release technologies, and excipients used by pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement companies in the development of cost-effective, high-quality products. The company has offices in 25 countries, all linked by a network to the company’s main data center in Pennsylvania where business-critical applications have been centralized. The main enterprise application is Oracle e-Business Suite, but there are 80 applications in all, including legacy and regulatory applications, that are delivered to the remote sites over the network. The company also supports internal and external websites.

Solution

Colorcon chose the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager because it met all of the company’s requirements for load balancing functionality, support, and visibility into the end user experience. The Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager is a software-based solution that allowed for a very easy deployment. As a software solution, the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager brings all of the typical benefits of virtualization. It makes the stack pretty small and doesn’t need hardware and space in the data center. Also, backup is easy. The availability of the TrafficScript customization language, which makes it possible to create rules for managing application traffic, was another advantage of going with the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager. The Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager can create, manage, and deliver Layer 7 services. Also, when the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager detects a problem, it directs traffic away from that server much more quickly, to the point that no one notices anything amiss.

Impact #1	The Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager provided the advanced load balancing functionality, support, and visibility into the end user experience that Colorcon required.
Impact #2	It also provided excellent technical support and the TrafficScript customization language, which makes it possible to create rules for managing application traffic.
Impact #3	With the Brocade solution, Colorcon is confident it can provide a good experience for both Colorcon employees and Web site visitors.

Impact #1

The Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager provided the advanced load balancing functionality, support, and visibility into the end user experience that Colorcon required.

Impact #2

It also provided excellent technical support and the TrafficScript customization language, which makes it possible to create rules for managing application traffic.

Impact #3

With the Brocade solution, Colorcon is confident it can provide a good experience for both Colorcon employees and Web site visitors.

Benefit #1	Six physical servers consolidated to two VMs

Benefit #1

Six physical servers consolidated to two VMs

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Colorcon Improves End-User Experience and Performance of Applications with Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager

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