Healthcare revolution with SoftLayer – Rural townships on cloud nine!

Thank you Akash, this breakthrough in medical science has reached several villagers in Bihar, only becauseof you!”- Mr Rao, Akash’s manager exclaimed. “Sir”, Akash replied, “Pleasedon’t thank me, we just need to be grateful to the wizard called‘SoftLayer’which has made all this possible”.Akash smiled as this was the 10thcongratulatory call that he had received in the last one hour. The phone hadn’t stopped ringing. After all,what Akash and his team had achieved for their company was nothing short of a miracle. Amidst all this adulation, he quickly recalled. It was exactly one year ago when Akash,the newly appointed IT Manager at Mankind Pharma, had taken up his new assignment and a challenging one.Hundreds of rural inhabitants in Bihar were victims of a life threatening epidemic which was fast spreading. Hospitals were falling short of space as there was a steep rise in the patientcount. The authorities hit the panic button and there was a dire need to get immediate medical help. Mankind Pharma, being one of the top 5 leadingIndian pharma companies wanted to champion this cause.Akash and his team were assigned to get the company’s latest Antibiotic drug, accessible to these rural areas. This drug would help prevent the rapidspread of the infection by nipping it at its roots. A mission critical project, this could take anywhere between 2-4 years as per the market projections. 30villages spread across acres of land would need instant access to this drug. Even if the 10 local distributors worked overtime with the existing conventional IT framework, they could probably just cover 40%- 50% of the target market. Only a suave IT infrastructure aligned with the company’s business objectives and on-time drug delivery model could save the day. Akash connected with the company headquarters to get the latest updates on the IT investments and new deals signed.Co-incidentally, it was the same time that Mankind Pharma with the help ofIBM Global technology Services India, signed up for a new cloud based hosting solution- SoftLayer. This was the perfect solution, almost like a life saver to help fight this problem.IBM SoftLayer, being a flexible cloud hosting solution could support multiple applications with minimum downtime. The pharma company benefitted from itsscalable infrastructureto host its IT applications, across various rural areas in Bihar. With this, local distributors could instantly access and download detailed information about this antibiotic within minutes and hence track the procurement to delivery, within no time. A project which was estimated to take about 4 years was successfully implemented in less than half the time!The above example is just one of the many complex business issues, that are being resolved usingIBM’s cloud computing.Using cloud technology, midsize businesses can compete withthe big guys; which is exactly what Mankind Pharma achieved. Cloud technology being a strategic resource,is always available on-demand and requires almost no setup or capital expense. Many companies today are joining this Cloud Revolution and IBM can help you through this journey.To understand more about IBM’s Cloud Computing offering,