Global data center reaches for the cloud to improve efficiency
Sanofi is the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceutical company, with 2013 revenues that topped $45 billion (USD) and more than 130,000 employees in 130 countries worldwide. To support the company’s global growth objectives, Sanofi’s Global Infrastructure Services (GIS) team launched the Next-Generation Data Center initiative (NGDC). The initiative is designed to stabilize and standardize operations across the company’s three primary regional data centers (US, EMEA and APAC), reducing infrastructure variances across these VMware-based environments and improving efficiency and predictability.
As a first step, the GIS team needed to conduct an initial analysis to assess overall data center health, with a particular focus on reducing storage waste and improving performance.