Medidata Solutions

Go hybrid to cure the common cloud.
Medidata Solutions optimizes the clinical trials process to bring medical treatments to market faster, with less cost and reduced risk. To accelerate application delivery and ensure compliance, they automated their hybrid infrastructure with Hosted Chef™.

The Challenge

Medidata Solutions pioneered the Clinical Cloud, enabling life science organizations to leverage cloud scale in accelerating the clinical trials process while maintaining high levels of data security. Medidata's hybrid infrastructure streamlines clinical trials and ensures regulatory compliance using a combination of physical servers behind a firewall and cloud resources. To keep these cloud resources aligned with its physical infrastructure, Medidata needed a robust automation framework capable of accelerating application delivery, while providing complete resource documentation.

The Solution

Medidata Solutions deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration and environment management, reporting and application delivery. Using Hosted Chef, Medidata's DevOps team has been able to deliver highly available web-based services and accelerate new application delivery from weeks to less than 24 hours, all while retaining maximum change control over its cloud resources.

The Results

  • Enable highly available and secure web-based cloud services.
  • Reduce new application delivery times from weeks to less than 24 hours.
  • Create highly reliable and rapid back-up capabilities
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and maximum control for cloud resources.
"Hosted Chef gives us the automated management to support our customers' wide range of needs, making them happier, which makes us happier." Glen de Vries, President, Medidata Solutions

Medidata Solutions is a leading global provider of cloud-based clinical development solutions that enhance the efficiency of customers' clinical trials. Medidata's advanced platform lowers the total cost of clinical development by optimizing clinical trials from concept to conclusion: from study and protocol design, trial planning and budgeting, site negotiation, clinical portal, trial management, randomization and trial supply management, clinical data capture and management, safety events capture, medical coding to business analytics.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.