Virtual Infrastructure Technologies for Life Sciences
The sky is falling!!
... Or maybe it just seems that way
The Life Sciences industry faces greater challenges than ever before. In an industry of increasing competition and tough regulatory practices, life science organizations are under pressure to re-evaluate their strategies while the pharmaceutical industry is facing increased pressure from lengthening product development times, from escalating research costs, and from governmental reforms aimed at controlling spiraling healthcare costs.
Maybe Chicken Little was right? The current challenges appear daunting.
Lower production... higher costs
The number of NME's (New Molecular Entities) recently approved by the FDA was the lowest since 1983. The same pattern is apparent in worldwide statistics, where the annual number of new active substances approved in major markets is 50% lower than prior years. Compounding this is the fact that the private sector pharmaceutical R&D spending has tripled.
Playing by the rules...
Frequently changing public, governmental and regulatory dynamics and attitudes leave Life Sciences organizations struggling for growth and market leadership. Life Sciences companies are faced with balancing operational and innovative success while adhering to the high standards of GXP and 21CFR Part 11. Reaching these goals requires the blend of efficient processes and proven technologies.
What have you done for me lately?
The changing industry structure, particularly the rise of the biotechnology sector has spurred the creation of a market for biomedical science and increased vertical competition within the industry. In such an environment, companies are forced to rely on their ability to discover, develop and market innovative products faster and more effectively than the competition.
Before you take shelter... the sky clearing
Virtual Infrastructure technologies have the ability to help solve these and other challenges. It transforms the way corporate computing operates by making software instantly available and easy to use. Using proven policy based and on-demand delivery virtual solutions you can change applications into network services that will never need to be re-installed. The result is a highly scalable software environment that is securely deployed, managed and immediately available anywhere in the world at a fraction of traditional investments - and that delivers dramatically improved business agility and a superior end-user desktop experience.
Clear sailing ahead
Many Life Sciences organizations are already realizing these Virtual Infrastructure benefits...
- Business Continuity - By turning applications into easily replicable data, Virtual Technologies enables you to ensure application uptime and, as a result minimize or even eliminate end-user downtime.
- Easier FDA validation: Using industry-tested VI products, only the initial deployment of the application must be validated since subsequent changes to the infrastructure have no impact on application or data integrity. This eliminates time intensive validation steps.
- End perpetual patching with VI, because patches won't alter any applications, they no longer need to regression test them and, as a result, can deploy more patches faster. Now patching can be completed in hours instead of weeks or months previously required - and with fewer IT resources.
- Consolidate Servers - Not only does VI enable IT to reduce the number of servers required because any application can run alongside any other without conflict, it can support an average of 1,000 concurrent connections and numerous applications with just one single-processor server
- License Compliance - Because no one can use software who isn't authorized to do so, usage policies and license agreements can be 100% enforced - without time-consuming, labor-intensive administration. By tracking usage you can determine, for instance, which applications are under-used and can be redeployed, and whether you should re-adjust license agreements.
Let us know how we can help create a favorable forecast for your organization!
