Mankind Pharma selects SoftLayer cloud

BANGALORE, INDIA: Mankind Pharma has selected SoftLayer's cloud platform to support its business growth and expansion. SoftLayer, an IBM company, will enable Mankind Pharma to significantly improve the performance of its business critical applications and scale the use of these applications across multiple locations.

Mankind Pharma has grown rapidly in the last decade and is currently among the top five fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in India with an employee base of over 9,000 and 15 manufacturing plants across the country.

Mankind Pharma wanted to align its IT infrastructure with the business goals of the company, while keeping operations and capital expenditures to a minimum. The company also wanted an IT infrastructure to scale based on the seasonal peaks and troughs of the pharmaceutical business.

SoftLayer cloud provided the perfect combination of pay-as-you-use option as well as scalability to suit business need.

"We chose SoftLayer as a service which helped us deploy our business critical application on Cloud which required a highly scalable infrastructure to meet the ongoing demands of the market. SoftLayer is geared to meet these requirements and help us continue our strong business momentum and provide greater client satisfaction," said Pramod Gokhale, VP-Information Services and Strategy, Mankind Pharma.

Apart from scaling operations during peak months, the SoftLayer infrastructure will also help Mankind Pharma scale up quickly when it expands operations to international markets.

"With SoftLayer cloud, Mankind Pharma can have a better control on their operations to drive business growth," said Ganesh Margabandhu, GM, Global Technology Services, IBM India South Asia.