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

公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager
技术栈
- Oracle e-Business Suite
- LDAP services
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - API 集成与管理
适用行业
- 药品
适用功能
- 商业运营
用例
- 预测性维护
服务
- 系统集成
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
关于客户
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.
挑战
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.
解决方案
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.
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