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NetApp FlexPod enables global storage unity for ICON

Industry

Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology

The Challenge

As ICON developed and grew on a global scale, its previous local storage solutions couldn’t keep pace. IT teams experienced outages and there was no efficient way to share data across different locations

Accelerate clinical trials
Introduce new revenue model for clinical data storage

The Solution

Implement the NetApp FlexPod architecture across ICON’s U.S. and Ireland data centers to gain a purpose-build, high-capacity platform designed for specialized workloads characterized by flexibility, scalability, and lower capital and operational costs.

FlexPod
NetApp FAS and E-Series
NetApp StorageGRID
NetApp FabricPool

Benefits

Bringing therapies to market faster and more cost effectively
More time and funding back into continuous innovation for ICON
Innovation is at the heart of everything that ICON, Island Networks, and NetApp do together
Improving and saving lives through data

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NetApp

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. They provide systems, software, and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services, and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere.

Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections–whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible–providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.

Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.

AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon’s expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

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VMWare

VMware, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Its products include Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing, and End-User Computing. It supports modernizing data centers, integrating public clouds, empowering digital workspaces and transforming security.

Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. engages in the design, development, and marketing of information technology solutions. Citrix provides digital workspace that unifies apps, data, and services. It markets and licenses its products directly to customers through web, systems integrators, value-added resellers, and service providers.

Google Cloud

Google Cloud is a suite of public cloud computing services offered by Google. The platform includes a range of hosted services for compute, storage and application development that run on Google hardware. Google Cloud services can be accessed by software developers, cloud administrators and other enterprise IT professionals over the public internet or through a dedicated network connection.

Rubrik

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company™, delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises. Rubrik’s big idea is to provide data security and data protection on a single platform, including: Zero Trust Data Protection, ransomware investigation, incident containment, sensitive data discovery, and orchestrated application recovery. This means data is ready at all times so you can recover the data you need, and avoid paying a ransom. Because when you secure your data, you secure your applications, and you secure your business.

Aviatrix

Trusted by more than 500 of the world’s most innovative companies, Aviatrix empowers businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs. Aviatrix delivers an enterprise-grade secure cloud network, backbone, and edge for mission-critical applications by creating a simplified and consistent networking architecture in and across cloud service providers. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program, the industry’s first and only multicloud networking certification, Aviatrix helps businesses to achieve their digital transformation goals.

Terraform

Terraform is an IAC tool, used primarily by DevOps teams to automate various infrastructure tasks. The provisioning of cloud resources, for instance, is one of the main use cases of Terraform. It’s a cloud-agnostic, open-source provisioning tool written in the Go language and created by HashiCorp.

Semperis

For security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Semperis ensures the integrity and availability of critical enterprise directory services at every step in the cyber kill chain and cuts recovery time by 90%. Purpose-built for securing hybrid Active Directory environments, Semperis’ patented technology protects over 50 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors.

Semperis hosts the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection conference and podcast series and built the free Active Directory security assessment tool, Purple Knight. The company has received the highest level of industry accolades, recently named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ list for the second consecutive year (2020-2021) and ranked among the top three fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in the 2021 Inc. 5000 list. Semperis is a Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance and Co-Sell partner.

Ansible

Ansible® is an open source, command-line IT automation software application written in Python. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced workflows to support application deployment, system updates, and more. Ansible’s main strengths are simplicity and ease of use.

Riverbed

Today, in our digital lives, every click is everything. It’s the heartbeat of the enterprise. Whether it’s in the office or anywhere, and at any time day or night, that action comes with intent and an expectation of a flawless digital experience. Riverbed has helped the world’s largest organizations empower the digital experience and drive enterprise performance. With two industry-leading solutions – Alluvio by Riverbed for Unified Observability and Riverbed Acceleration – Riverbed transforms data into actionable insights across the entire digital ecosystem and accelerates performance for a seamless digital experience.

SCALR

Founded in 2011 SCALR continues to make the complex world of DevOps automation simple, by building high quality, thoughtful products that enable world class organizations.

Elastic

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) is a search company with a simple goal: to solve the world’s data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, they help thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, Verizon, and many more use Elastic to power mission-critical systems.

From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, Elastic’s products are extending what’s possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. They have a distributed team of Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting), and their diverse open-source community spans over 100 countries.

Fortinet

Fortinet is the only security leader to develop and build custom Security Processing Unit (SPU) technology that offers the best price, performance, and value in the industry with Security Compute Ratings that are multiples that of other vendors with more software-oriented or CPU-driven approaches.

Each day Fortinet FortiGuard Labs uses one of the most effective and proven Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems in the industry to process and analyze more than 100 billion events daily, sending actionable real-time threat intelligence to customers. The combination of FortiOS, purpose-built SPU technology, and AI-powered threat intelligence showcases the Fortinet commitment to cybersecurity innovation and excellence.

Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. engages in the development and support of software, services, devices, and solutions. It operates through the following business segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.

The Productivity and Business Processes segment comprises products and services in the portfolio of productivity, communication, and information services of the company spanning a variety of devices and platform. The Intelligent Cloud segment refers to the public, private, and hybrid serve products and cloud services of the company which can power modern business.

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. provides open-source software solutions. Its software offerings are designed to provide customers with high-performing, scalable, flexible, reliable, secure, and stable technologies that meet the information technology infrastructure needs of enterprises. These offerings include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Storage Server.

Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is a global leader in cloud data protection. Their Intelligent Data Services protect customers’ data in a difficult world. They provide a simple and unified Data Protection Platform that spans all your data – regardless of whether your workloads live on-premises, in the cloud, or spread across a hybrid environment. Commvault solutions are available through any combination of software subscriptions, integrated appliances, partner-managed offerings, or Software as a Service via their Commvault-built Metallic portfolio. In addition, integrations are available for O365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and other leading business applications. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations have relied on Commvault to keep their data secure and ready to drive business growth.

Imperva

Imperva is the cybersecurity leader whose mission is to protect data and all paths to it. Imperva protects cloud applications, websites, and applications, files, SharePoint systems, databases, and big data repositories from both theft and ever-evolving extortion attacks like DDoS and ransomware.

CATO

CATO pioneered the convergence of networking and security into the cloud. Aligned with Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) frameworks, CATO’s vision is to deliver a next generation secure network architecture that eliminates the complexity, costs, and risks associated with legacy IT approaches based on disjointed point solutions. With CATO, organizations securely and optimally connect any user to any application anywhere on the globe. Our cloud-native architecture enables CATO to rapidly deploy new capabilities and maintain optimum security posture, without any effort from the IT teams. With CATO, your IT organization and your business are ready for whatever comes next.